The Knife is tagged as: electronic, swedish, synthpop, electronica, electro
The Knife is an electronic duo from Sweden formed in 1999 The band consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson (formerly of Honey is cool now Fever Ray) and Olof Dreijer - who also run their own label Rabid Records
One of the group's defining feature is their unwillingness to cooperate with the media or the general music scene group rarely makes public appearances, most of their promotional photos, the members masks, and until recently they completely refused to perform live concerts The group has recently shown to public image masks that bird beaks are similar to those used by medieval doctor
The Knife won a Swedish Grammy for best pop group of 2003 but boycotted the ceremony by sending two representatives of the leader of another artist group dressed as tFig gorillas with the number 50 written on their costumes, apparently as a protest against male dominance in the music industry, their album Deep Cuts was also nominated for a Swedish Grammy for best record of 2003, despite the prize went to The Cardigans It was also in 2003 that The Knife was as an artist of the week on HitQuarters that helped them gain greater attention in the international music scene
