YMMV / The Knife

• Awesome Music:
  • The entirety of Silent Shout, it's often regarded as a modern classic.
    • "The Captain", used quite fittingly in the beginning of the trailer for 9, capturing the film's desolate tone.
• Broken Base: Perhaps to be expected by the title but Shaking the Habitual has thoroughly split the fan-base, one side being completely enraptured and the other finding it a pretentious noisy chore.
• Covered Up: The Jose Gonzalez cover of Heartbeats is probably better known than the origin
• Creepy Awesome: Almost everything they do, and literally everything Karin did in their first Fever Ray album.
• Nightmare Fuel: Karin has admitted that their husband is often leery about letting their kids listen to their music.
  • Sure, "Na Na Na" sounds innocuous to begin with, but then you hear the lyrics:
    I've got mace, pepper-spray
    And some shoes that runs faster than a rapist rapes
    What I need is chemical castrations, hope and godspeed
  • "Silent Shout" has quite the memorably surreal music video, populated with people bearing vaguely inhuman and distorted faces soullessly lipsyncing to the song. The song itself even uses actual nightmare tropes:
    In a dream I lost my teeth again
    Calling me woman and half man
    Yes in a dream all my teeth fell out
    A cracked smile and a silent shout
  • "Full of Fire" off Shaking the Habitual.
    • Quite a few of the tracks off of Shaking the Habitual are filled with Nightmare Fuel, such as "A Cherry On Top", "Fracking Fluid Injection" and the 19-minute long "Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized".
• Reclusive Artist: Zig-zagged. They tend to shy away from press attention, but they've stated multiple times that they're open to interviews and have done a lot of them, but they just refuse ones that try to pry into their personal lives. Karin appears to be more amiable to interviews when they were promoting Fever Ray.
• Signature Song: Either "Heartbeats", "Full of Fire" or "We Share Our Mother's Health", probably depending on when you first got into the band.