The Knife 'Heartbeats'

If this isn't massive I shall be very disapointed. It's getting played by Erol Alkan and Mylo at the moment.

The original charms the pants off of me.

Wasn't this song from last year though?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/tracklistings/lamacq_tracklistings2003.shtml

i love it, i really hope i can find an mp3 later...

See:
ihttp://www.rabidrecords.com/theknife/biography.html

Looks like the album is being issued in the UK this September:
ihttp://www.theknife.net/

Anyway, Matthew Fluxblog to thread!

The Rex The Dog remix is alright, but it's not anywhere as good as the original.

I like a bunch of the Knife's songs - the next best song after "Heartbeats" is probably "Is It Medicine," which is pretty rocking.

Someone seriously needs to license them and put their stuff out in the US.

By the way, I'm gonna get "If this isn't massive I shall be very disapointed" tattooed somewhere on my body... maybe right under my belly button.

Dammit Matthew, what's with you posting Scandinavian Pop Songs called "Heartbeat(s)" and me being obsessed with them for months?

The closest I've got is "Madame Butterfly" by Malcolm McLaren (great track btw) but the vocals are from something completely different.

best 'stinking cold' voice ever

I haven't heard the house remix and am downloading it now and I am real, real, excited.

So after a few listens today, this doesn't really push my buttons in the same way Silent Shout did but it's pretty fucking great; I'm responding to it kind of the same way I respond to M83 and Crystal Castles (which makes sense as it comes across as weird Nordic mashup of the two).

not many current bands improved with each album like this (not including fever ray tho i know some prefer that to any knife album)

that new 12" by the dude from The Knife is pretty damn good. esp. side b.

what name is that 12in released under?

I'm gonna take this opportunity to rep for the music video to 'Pass This On' which is great and crepey in a prototypean Knife way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKhjaGRhIYU

I don't know the remixes mentioned upthread but the versions the Knife did for the OneMusic session of Pass This On, YMMLC and Heartbeats are fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W56_ek1Px6g

Oni Ayhun - OAR-003

Yeah, that Oni Ayhun track is awesome!

yeah, deep cuts is just so patchy that it's hard for me to listen to it as a cohesive whole in quite the way that i can with silent shout.

heartbeats is still such a behemoth of a song, it gets me every time. just something slow & stately and really quite elegant about it

i find that deep cuts is so patchy that i can't just listen to it in bits, i have to be absolutely in the mood, and then everything that should annoy me is somehow even greater? What Alex in Doncaster said, upthread:
I have been totally 100% won over by how gloriously unpleasant some of it is.
and
Also it is amazingly uneven. There are lots of things I feel I should dislike about it and it's so fantastic.

these are absolutely how i feel about it.

I'm the only person on ILM who likes Deep Cuts better than Silent Shout, aren't I?

Yeah, probably.

I am not getting "uneven" or "patchy" from Deep Cuts at all, though. What are the tracks people find problematic/unpleasant? (lol assuming "Hangin' Out" is one of them)

yeah i don't think it's particularly patchy either - i might skip 'Listen Up' but i like the dumb joke tracks.

listening to "The Cop" right now, blueski OTM

i think i mean "patchy" more in terms of tone than quality - it has the dumb joke tracks! i remember it being full of these tinny shoddy bits which are absolute pathos if you're in the moment and sort of embarrassing if you're not: I am re-listening to see if i can find actual examples.

ur mad to skip "listen now" though, it's amazing.

(just to clarify, I meant blueski OTM re: tracks like "The Cop", not "Listen Now")

Listen Now is one of the best tracks for sure! totally freaked out europop.

kind of lolling that the tracks most people seem to rally around are the ones with the steel drum synth on them

I think maybe it seemed more unpleasant at the time because we weren't accustomed to the things Karin would do to her voice, even when untreated.

ha yeah, I can see that my perspective, coming from Fever Ray and Silent Shout, would be drastically different from someone who heard this before those were released

maybe i'll give it another listen - but i do remembering hearing it again after i heard silent shout and thinking it wasn't as good

Matt I think that's it! It is definitely less jarring and weird than I remembered.

I guess the voice-shifts on 'you make me like charity' are a decent example - they're kind of silly, and they're kind of desperate&terrified, and maybe to me they're more affecting because i have to get through the initial 'haha silly voice' reaction?

Recall Deep Cuts having a slightly more aggressive, sleazy weirdness than Silent Shout*, which is kind of a bit more reflective

* possibly overly influenced by the "AH KEEP MAH DICK HANGEEN OUTTA MAH PAYUNTS" thing

I am a cop, shut up. I piss in your mouth. I am a cop, shut up. I shoot you in your face you Motherfu**er. I piss in your mouth hahaha hahahahahaha hahahaha

Working my way backwards through The Knife's catalog! I picked up the s/t last week and OMFG why the hell do people think this album is worse than the other two??????? It's fucking evil and brilliant!

(yes synth-based gothy sparseness with music geek arpeggios all over it is sort of pandering directly to me, I know, but seriously this is a fucking amazing album and I think it's weird that ppl rally around "Kino" as it comes across as the weakest song on the album after the 1-2 sledgehammer of "Neon" and "Lasagna")

Kino's the only track from it they did live on the third album tour iirc, and it does stand out on the album

It stands out as being a hyper, mood-ruining mess after the first two IMO. Listening to it in isolation, it is a good song, but I kind of hate it in the context of the album until about halfway through (which is about how long it takes me to get over being annoyed that this bouncy shit is interrupting my extremely enjoyable trawl through creepy synth sleaze).

goth

well duh

uh for whatever reason i just started listening to this on spotify recently. back in 2006 or whatever i started with silent shout but never went back to deep cuts and even now i'm not listening to the whoel album but

"whole" works too

weird, i just started "really listening" to silent shout this week, though i had been a sporadic listener of deep cuts for a while. it's amazing, like i expected it would be... i think i was putting it off to delay the pleasure of discovery.

i'm sure it's mentioned upthread but the live version of 'heartbeats' is v different and imo equally whoa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PACuzSmrEw

how have i not posted on this thread
I <3 Deep Cuts so much. I can't remember listening to much else in the last year or two of college tbh

I haven't listened to "Heartbeats" in a long ass time, so I'm doing that right now and HOLY SHIT IT'S STILL SO DAMN GOOD

yup

The live version from the Silent Shout tour is probably even better, imo.

perfect song

Coincidentally it came up on shuffle on my drive to work this morning and I too was marvelling at how good a record it remains.

Yeah, this still holds up. But I think that of a lot of their stuff!

+1 on the live version being superior to the (extremely great) studio version. I like playing it when I DJ; it blends perfectly into Lindstrom's remix of "Mirrorage."

This is an alltime great song.

My favourie bit is the queasy synth riff after each chorus.

the version of "the captain" on the live album

can't believe these albums came out like a decade ago or more and that i am going to die someday

Another synth-forward kuduro-esque EP from Olof Dreijer, first track sounds great:
https://olofdreijer.bandcamp.com/album/coral

Ironic that this thread has been bumped. I just bought a new car and have comp Sirius. I just heard this song after many years and still sounds fantastic.

We were in love

Hazel is amazing

Jose Gonzalez gets some incredible numbers on Spotify!