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Artist: The Knife Title: The Knife Price: $12.75	Tracks on this CD:
	Neon
	Lasagna
	Kino
	I Just Had To Die
	I Take Time
	Parade
	Zapata
	Bird
	N.Y. Hotel
	A Lung
	Reindeer
	High School Poem
	Hannah's Conscious
	Vegetarian Restaurant

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Eccentric Swedish avant-synth sibling duo The Knife is comprised of former Honey Is Cool vocalist and wi-fi feminist Karin Dreijer and her brother, studio-warlock Olaf Dreijer. The Knife are one of the most singularly freaky combos in so many ways, yet the band calls themselves merely “electronic pop punk”, which really, with their grasp of pop melodies, punk hybridization, and hard-drive derring do, doesn’t do them justice. Emblazoned with vintage synth sounds and oldskool eurotechno rhythms, The Knife are happy to drag their songs through retro clichés… Imagine Nico backed by Gary Numan, Le Tigre with Kate Bush, and Bjork & Sebastian… The Knife are wild and woozy and weird, without boundaries…not as much delirious as delirium, if you understand my distinction. For fans of Bjork, Miss Kitten, Cornelius, Massive Attack, Fischerspooner, Stereo Total, Ladytron, the Gooom roster. While the Knife’s management sets the table for world domination (in the form of their acclaimed second effort, Deep Cuts, an outright masterpiece which will be available later this year) we are happy to offer the band’s serrated electro-pop debut. This special UK edition features the original 11-track debut album, plus three tracks culled from their soundtrack for the film Hannah med H.