The Knife is the debut studio album by Swedish
electronic music duo
the Knife, released on 5 February 2001 by
Rabid Records. The album's recordings started early in the summer of 1999 in a cottage on the Swedish island of
Tjörn. The duo also recorded it in their flats in
Gothenburg and
Stockholm, and in a rehearsal studio in the
Hökarängen district of Stockholm.[4]
On 31 October 2006,
Mute Records released this and the Knife's second album, Deep Cuts, in the United States, marking the first Stateside release of both titles.
The UK release of the album was preceded, on 23 February 2004, by the release of a limited-edition
10-inchEP also titled The Knife. The track listing was as follows:
A1. "Kino"
A2. "Bird"
B1. "N.Y. Hotel"
B2. "High School Poem"
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Knife.[4]