Shaking the Habitual
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| Studio album by The Knife | ||||
| Released | 5 April 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2010–12; and Berlin | |||
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| Length | 96:20 | |||
| Label | Rabid | |||
| Producer | The Knife | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 85/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | A− |
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| MSN Music | A |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.4/10 |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Spin | 9/10 |
Shaking the Habitual is the fourth and final studio album by Swedish electronic music duo The Knife, released on 5 April 2013 by Rabid Records. The album was released as a double CD and triple LP, and as a digital download. The album was lauded by critics at the time of its release and was featured on several year end best lists.
"Full of Fire" was released as the album's lead single on 28 January 2013. An accompanying short film was directed by Marit Östberg, who contributed a film to the 2009 Swedish feminist porn compilation Dirty Diaries. The album's second single, "A Tooth for an Eye", was released on 18 February 2013, for which a music video was directed by Roxy Farhat and Kakan Hermansson. The duo embarked upon the Shaking the Habitual Tour in support of the album, starting in Bremen, Germany on 26 April 2013.
On 18 April 2011, it was announced that The Knife was recording a new album, initially set to be released in 2012, through a post on the duo's website about the housing rights of Romani people in Rome.Shaking the Habitual was officially announced on 12 December 2012, along with a teaser video posted on YouTube. The album was recorded in and Berlin from 2010 to 2012.
In October 2012, Shannon Funchess of Brooklyn-based electronic music duo Light Asylum revealed in interviews with Dazed & Confused and music blog No Conclusion that she would contribute vocals to a track on the album, with lyrics written by visual artist Emily Roysdon.
For the artwork of Shaking the Habitual, the duo commissioned Malmö-based illustrator Liv Strömquist to design a comic book titled "End Extreme Wealth" that turns the right wing's discourse against the poor on its head, depicting the 1% as a culturally-impoverished and vermin-like "other". "It came out of the idea, 'How do we use the area of the record cover in the best political way?'" Olof Dreijer said. "It's about bringing focus to extreme wealth rather than poverty being the problem of the world."
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