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Shaking the Habitual
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,
make such formidable sounds so compelling for so long".
"Fact" noted that "[f]ans of "Silent Shout" and "Deep Cuts" [...] will find "Shaking the Habitual"s hybrid of post-punk, techno, industrial, coldwave, drone and electro-pop discomforting", adding, "At "Shaking the Habitual"s core are the processes of deconstruction and reconstruction, so rare in the tradition of mostly reiterative pop music that the album feels transgressive". "The Independent" critic Simon Price