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Artist News Awards
The Knife take the Nordic Music Prize
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 3 March 2014
Over in Oslo this weekend, the presentation of the Nordic Music Prize took place, celebrating the best album to hark from somewhere Nordic, and presented on the final day of the by:Larm festival. And the winner was… The Knife for ‘Shaking The Habitual’.
Confirming that, the judging committee said in a statement: “This year’s winner of the Nordic Music Prize is radical on so many levels. Lyrically, visually, musically and politically. It’s a brave and challenging work”.
They went on: “Both dazzlingly contemporary and totally uncompromising, the artists in question have themselves described this record as ‘playing with people’s time and attention spans – in an era when nobody seems to have any’. ‘Shaking The Habitual’ is much more than a collection of songs, it’s a complete statement”.
