The Knife are a Swedish brother and sister who make the most consistently unsettling but compulsive electro/pop/weird music I've heard in a while.The music is composed of weird instrumentation (electro-style Jamaican steel drums, anyone?) and unusual time signatures, and the vocalist, while occasionally vaguely Bjork-esque, manages to sound both old-fashioned (in a kind of gin-soaked cabaret to...
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An alphabetical list of great music I found through my fellow Moggers.
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Wow. I love this video! A dominating drag queen lip syncs the lyrics "I'm in love with your brother... what's his name?" to a roomful of people including the actual singer... and her brother. (His name is Olof, and I'm pretty sure he's the guy who starts dancing in slow-mo with the performer. I think the singer, Karin, is the young woman in the black shirt who gets all the close-ups.)My friend ...
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Our neighbours in Norway have been reigning the balearic disco scene for a few years now, almost to the point where you’d expect nothing else coming out of the fair country. Dubby disco edit master Rune Lindbaek might not be the most famous of the bunch, although he’s worked with pretty much everyone in the [...]
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It seems so bad to start out a blog/comment/post with the words "Is it just me..." So, I won't... I'll start it as I just have, with a pondering on how it makes me feel to start a blog/comment/post out with the words: "Is it just me..." Is it just me, or does everyone else who's heard The Knife's song "Hangin' Out" want it to be one minutes and thirteen seconds longer? Oh... and what's with ...
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The Knife are a Swedish brother and sister who make the most consistently unsettling but compulsive electro/pop/weird music I've heard in a while.The music is composed of weird instrumentation (electro-style Jamaican steel drums, anyone?) and unusual time signatures, and the vocalist, while occasionally vaguely Bjork-esque, manages to sound both old-fashioned (in a kind of gin-soaked cabaret to...
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ok so maybe Ikea is a close second, but for some reason I can't get this stinking song out of my head. Total chessy Euro-Synth-Pop...but I freakin' love this song, albeit a little ashamed to admit it.This Swedish duo, is made up of Karin Drejer and her brother Olof. Come on, how can you not like a group with a guy named Olof in it?José González did an acoustic version of this song (which is gre.
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