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The Knife

March 2024

  • Olof Dreijer

    Club culture
    Olof Dreijer on the Knife, Swedish nationalism and dancefloor activism: ‘Music gives us energy to overcome’

    After disbanding cult pop act the Knife, Dreijer helped migrant musicians and resisted the Swedish far-right. His wondrous new club tracks now reconsider how art can inform politics

February 2023

  • Fever Ray: ‘I realised that I haven’t been so good with patience.’

    Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer on romance, ageing and kink: ‘There is always the dangerous route’

    The Knife co-founder’s third solo album finds them swapping edge for the ‘peaceful sadness’ of age – a new shade of nonconformism for a musician famed for their socialist, genderqueer politics

March 2018

  • Celebrating freedom and pleasure ... Karin Dreijer performing at the Troxy.

    Fever Ray review – cartoonish camp and eco-rave vibes

    Swedish art rocker Karin Dreijer is best when she translates experimental music to the stage with a bang

November 2017

  • Karin Dreijer, AKA Fever Ray

    Fever Ray: on pleasure, patriarchy and political revolution

    In the wake of Plunge, her first album in eight years, Karin Dreijer opens up about her queer re-awakening, motherhood and the joys of Tinder

February 2017

  • Father John Misty Press shots 2015 must credit photographer Emma Tillman00A20024.JPG

    These are the songs that never end: 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts

    Father John Misty just debuted Leaving LA, a 13-minute, chorus-free track off his upcoming album. Here are the most brilliant and bewitching songs to have gotten the long-form treatment

February 2016

  • The Knife Perform In London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 08: Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife performs on stage at The Roundhouse on May 8, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Annabel Staff/Redferns via Getty Images)

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about knives results playlist

  • Beyonce

    Literary Mixtapes by Electric Literature
    Literary Mixtape: Alexander Chee finds a heroine – with Beyoncé's help

November 2015

  • Hiya wal Âalam

    Hiya wal Âalam: Olof Dreijer's new group goes beyond The Knife's edge

    After the Knife called it a day last year, Olof Dreijer teamed up with Tunisian composer Houwaida Hedfi and swapped four-to-the-floor for the flute

June 2015

  • Georgia

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Georgia (No 56)

    Meet the former would-be professional soccer star turned purveyor of impressively brittle post-grime pop

November 2014

  • The Knife on stage at Brixton Academy In London

    The Knife review – farewell to the feelgood thunderers

    The Scandinavian electropop pioneers bow out with a theatrical show that gleefully blends dance music with identity politics, writes Tshepo Mokoena

September 2014

  • Ricky Wilson.

    Live music booking now
    Live music booking now

    The Knife | SBTRKT | A$AP Mob | Gnarwolves | Jamie T | Kaiser Chiefs

August 2014

  • the Knife band portrait

    The Knife confirm that group will 'close down' after final tour

    Swedish act will perform one last leg of their Shaking The Habitual show before concentrating on other projects

March 2014

  • The Knife Perform In London

    The Knife to write music for Swedish anti-national 'cabaret'

  • ‘Meandering celestially’: Yukimi Nagano on stage in London.

    Little Dragon review – a band on the verge of greatness

November 2013

  • The Savages rock band

    Pitchfork Paris 2013: Five things we learned

    Kate Hutchinson: Savages are just the job for Halloween, the Knife shine even when they mime, and even Parisians can be disconcerted

May 2013

  • The Knife Perform In London

    The Knife – review

    The Knife make no apologies for miming onstage, and do so with such aplomb it barely seems to matter, writes Killian Fox

  • The Knife Perform In London

    The Knife – review

    Provocative, confrontational and fun, the Swedish pop duo chopped the audience's expectations into bits, writes Dorian Lynskey
  • Taylor Swift at Ford Field in Detroit on 4 May

    The week in music
    From Taylor Swift to Psy: the week in music – in pictures

    The Yeah Yeah Yeahs rock out, the Black Keys jazz it up and Mark E Smith plays his 162,326th gig – join us for the week's best musical moments

April 2013

  • knife shaking habitual

    The Knife: Shaking the Habitual – review

  • the Knife band portrait

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    The Knife: Shaking the Habitual – review

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