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By now it’s routine: any act who’s ever touched a synth will, at some point in their career, either namedrop or get compared to the Knife. Just a few of them: Icona Pop, Niki and the Dove, Lykke Li, Purity Ring, AlunaGeorge, Kate Boy, Chairlift, CHVRCHES, Charli XCX, iamamiwhoami, Grimes, Robyn, even Britney Spears when she was all innovative. Just as a Kate Bush comparison has become standard for any female vocalist whose voice is a little loopy, or a Fiona Apple comparison for anyone shedding feelings, the Swedish duo is now shorthand for any act, from Sweden or not, who makes dance music slightly a-kilter. The comparisons aren’t wrong — in Deep Cuts’ deep cuts are the blueprints for about half of 2012’s indie-pop hits.
It’s just that now the Knife, for their first proper album in years, has delivered a Foucault-quoting concept slab instead, where the “singles” are umpteen-minute sonic threshers and everything else is doomy sprawl. And it’s great.
I love Deep Cuts, but mine it inspired some shit clones