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The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year

Released: 01/03/2010 Brille Records

Swedish duo The Knife are renowned for their sophisticated, pop-attuned take on electro, so who better to compose an opera based on Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of the Species? Working in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, they build cultural bridges in a typically cerebral fashion.

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Dusted Magazine“Toughness and momentary obscurity...” Whatever might be said of its listenability, Tomorrow makes its logic available to any listener with a two-hour attention span. That’s limiting their audience. That sounds pretty good right now...
 
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Guardian“flecked with beauty...” There are pockets of beauty here well worth locating in among the sound of amoebas swimming in primordial soup...
 
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The Independent“One of the strangest groups on earth...” In conceptual terms, TIAY can be filed alongside Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman. In musical terms, the nearest I can get to this unearthly and unsettling work is Diamanda Galas meets (recent) Scott Walker in a synthesiser factory...
 
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Pitchfork“Your attention will frequently be rewarded...” Reconciling their boundless ambitions with their crowd-pleasing instincts, they hit upon a sweet spot that only Laurie Anderson and few others have managed to locate-- a clearing where pop and the avant-garde meet...
 
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Drowned In Sound“Plonk yourself down, and wait for it to wallop you...” A dispassionate electrical negative of a portion of nature's pitiless immensity, sculpted and tweaked for atmosphere by musicians who are masters of such things...
 
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MusicOMH“Unmatched in their daring...” To the committed listener, the apparent cacophony gives way, slowly peeling back from itself, to reveal a supremely intriguing and complex musical vision...
 
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