Album Deep Cuts
posted by on March 5 at 12:58 PM
After spending much of the past year marveling over the Knife’s brilliant, ghostly Silent Shout, I’ve finally come to appreciate their previous album, Deep Cuts with equal enthusiasm.
Initially, Deep Cuts seemed like a lighter, less conceptual record, more a collection of pop songs than an epic album cycle. But repeat listenings reveal just as much depth and complexity as on Silent Shout, only differently directed. Where Silent Shout deals with a darkly supernatural Scandanavia, Deep Cuts seems to address something more like reality, still with intense joys and pains, but grounded in cafes and discotheques, taxes and pregnancies, rather than magic forests and haunted houses. Deep Cuts is a city record, whereas Silent Shout is a wilderness.
Flawless analysis, my man.
I highly prefer Deep Cuts over Silent Shout and am always at a loss when asked why. This sums it up perfectly.
I love this album! especially songs like "Hanging out", "cops" and "she's having a baby."
even though the voices on these tracks are very male, if i'm not mistaken, karin still sings them.
which makes 'em real fucked up.
Lately, I've been most into "You Make Me Like Charity" and "You Take My Breath Away."
I have nothing constructive or relevant to add to this so I'll just say that the Knife sucks and give no explanation as to why I think that, just to be obtuse. I'm a dick.
Seeing as how "Deep Cuts" was the album that got me into them, I really have nothing to say about the album that hasn't already been said. Well, minus Jeff's comment.
It's their first album, S/T, that I haven't figured out how I feel about yet.
Eric, talk to Brian Go about "You Make Me Like Charity." We had a fun back-and-forth deciphering the lyrics. He's a HUGE Knife fan.
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