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The Knife have gone seriously minimal for their new single 'A Cherry On Top' and its accompanying video. Check it out below.
The first half of the nearly-nine minute song features intensely building sonic layers, with overlapping instrumental groans and whines piling up to create an atmosphere of incredible tension.
The listener is then rewarded with the plonking of some strings, always slightly discordant, and after five minutes the appearance of a voice.
Throughout the song is intensely atmospheric, and treads the fine line between being hypnotic and boring - arguably stepping over that line at times.
The video is an equally minimal, arty affair. Two gridded squares on a pink background twist themselves in opposite directions from their central point and then unwind again.
The glitchy animation of the film has no connection to the movement of the music and instead the shapes twist and bend to their own timing.
Watch the new video for 'A Cherry On Top'
Listeners are already split when it comes to the duo's new record, Shaking The Habitual, with some seeing it as a sonic masterpiece and others finding it a difficult listen
We don't predict that this video will change many opinions.
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