Earlier this yr, we bought a sort of unofficial reunion of the Knife. The game-changing Swedish duo broke up in 2014, and Karin Dreijer targeted on their solo mission Fever Ray. Earlier this yr, Fever Ray launched the Radical Romantics album, and Karin’s brother and Knife bandmate Olof Dreijer served as co-producer. Now, Olof is teaming up with one of many Knife’s previous collaborators for a brand new LP.
The Milwaukee-born and Berlin-based producer Matthew Sims was once the frontman of the late-’90s band Citizen King. Remember that band? “Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out)”? I favored that music. Sims, now referred to as Mt. Sims, collaborated with the Knife and Planningtorock on the 2010 opera Tomorrow, In A Year. Now, Olof Dreijer and Mt. Sims are saying the collaborative LP Souvenir, which they’ve apparently made after spending 10 years researching the colonial historical past of the metal drum.
The first single from the five-track Souvenir known as “Hybrid Fruit,” and it’s a hypnotic, meditative eight-minute instrumental constructed round layered metal drum sounds. In a press launch, Dreijer says, “We tried to find our own thing. That’s usually our way around using an instrument that has been heavily exoticized and appropriated.” Below, take heed to “Hybrid Fruit” and take a look at the Souvenir tracklist.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Liten Karin”
02 “Hybrid Fruit”
03 “A Vessel Of Clay”
04 “Breaths Of Clay”
05 “Across This Mud”
Souvenir is out 6/9 on Rabid Records.