The KnifeBest The Knife Albums Ranked

Shaking the Habitual

fantano

9.0

“On the Knife's latest full-length, the Swedish electronic music duo goes absolutely insane with a 98 minute album that features a ton of long, linear art pop tracks that overload the senses and challenge expectations.”

Silent Shout

pitchfork

8.6

“In his review of Swedish electro duo the Knife's 2006 meisterverk *Silent Shout*, Pitchfork's Mark Pytlik waxed ecstatic about how Olof Dreijer worked his sister Karin Dreijer Andersson's vocals through sickly FX, making her nursery rhyme delivery sound like it was coming from the bottom of a slimy well. But Dreijer's crude palette of old-school electro/techno sounds managed to exert a feeling of ”

Shaking the Habitual

pitchfork

8.4

“The Knife's first album in seven years is the Swedish duo's most political, ambitious, accomplished album, but in a strange way it also feels like its most personal, a musical manifesto advocating for a better, fairer, weirder world.”

Deep Cuts

pitchfork

7.6

“Co-ed sibling electro-pop duo The Knife are out to prove they're more than just the outstanding "Heartbeats" single.”

Shaken-Up Versions

pitchfork

7.3

“Shaken-Up Versions is an album of the remixes taken from the setlist from the Knife's Shaking the Habitual tour. It makes a serviceable substitute for the live experience, and it's also a fine snapshot of where the Knife’s music is at right now: often challenging, at times a little frustrating, but at its core a thrilling body of work.”

Seeds (Remixes) [feat. Mt. Sims] - EP

pitchfork

7.3

“The Knife supplement one of 2010's most disorienting hard lefts-- their Charles Darwin-inspired opera-- with this brief remix EP.”