The Knife
Hiding behind black Venetian face masks with big bird beaks protruding eerily,
Swedish duo The Knife create icy, eccentric electro-pop, full of retro synths
and downbeat R&B grooves. With Karin Dreijer Andersson's indie rock outfit Honey
Is Cool coming to an end in 1999, she took a musical change of direction when
she heard the digital beats and experiments her younger brother Olof was
producing in his Stockholm bedroom. Their commercial breakthrough came when Jose
Gonzalez's acoustic guitar cover of their track Heartbeats was used in an
advertising campaign by Sony and was recog...
