The Knife were a Swedish electronic music duo prolific from 2001 to 2013. Their music is thouroughly political; for example, the name of their last show “Post-Colonial Gender Politics Come First, Music Comes Second”. I listened to some of their music and I am glad politics comes first.
In 2013 they released their most recent album, “Shaking The Habitual” along with a flaming hot manifesto. It blurs between hard fact and surrealist poetics.
“Everybody is always desiring already imagined things.”
“Electronics is just one place in the body.”
“We have made some decisions.”
“We choose process over everything else.”
bODY, Unknown. Music as a medium for politics. Imagining possible futures, new ways of thinking, being. Also hard politics with insensitivity to subtlety, as a recipe for jarring music?