Awesome Music Video Wednesday

This week I decided to do something a little different and choose a music video and a band that's a little lesser known.

Masked behind colorful tribal like make-up, Venetian masks and dark, infectious electronic music, The Knife is an oddity of the music world.

Karin Dreijer Andersson and her brother, Olof Dreijer make up the Swedish electronic duo and have been playing music together since the late 90s.

They almost never show their faces, hiding behind bizarre camoflauge.

"People should listen to our music instead of concentrating on what we look like!" Dreijer Andersson mentioned in an interview with contactmusic.com, "We like to get across the emotion and the feeling. The face paint is just a way of expressing our music, we never intended to make characters of ourselves - it's just a lot of fun!"

Their 2003 breakthrough album Deep Cuts is a savage mix of electro-pop and new wave featuring vibrant synthesizers and steel drums, all composed by Olof. Each song is different from the next, each telling a whimsical sometimes dark story all written by Karin.

The duo make a mysterious yet brilliant team and have made international success in Europe and are now making their way to America.

Their 2006 album, Silent Shout won six Grammis in 2007, the Swedish version of a Grammy and were awarded "Best New Music" and top album of 2006 by the online magazine Pitchfork Media the same year.

Today's song is "Pass This On", a single from 2003's Deep Cuts about a woman's lustful confession of being in love with one's brother. Almost every song is incredible in this album but there is something deep and captivating about this single. Karin provides the vocals, "I'm in love with your brother, what's his name?" over a mix of hot electro synthesizers and cool Caribbean steel drums. As many times as I"ve played this album out, this song remains my favorite.

The video features Rickard Engfors, a famous female impersonator from Sweden as Karin. At the very end of the video, Karin is the only one still sitting at the table. Olof is the young man dancing with Engfors.

Watch more The Knife videos on Youtube.com and prepared to become entranced!
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Buy The Knife albums on Amazon.com