The Knife: Influences

The Knife are one-of-a-kind; few acts have more successfully blurred the line between the accessible and the avant-garde than the Swedish brother-sister duo. Their albums have drawn inspiration from sources far and wide: Meredith Monk's liturgical minimalism, Oval's nervous glitches, and Derrick May's luminous Detroit techno. But the key elements of their iconoclastic approach have come from pop's great mavericks, like Kate Bush, Björk, and Missy Elliott.