The Knife
‘Tomorrow, In A Year’
(Rabid)

The Fly has a hunch that this might be the best avant-garde electro-opera based on the life and work of Charles Darwin that you’ll hear all year. However, that doesn’t make ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ anything less than a staggering test of patience. Commissioned by a Danish performance group, this novelty project is fortunately not representative of The Knife’s standard output as when listened to out of the context of where it’s originally intended for (i.e. the stage, not the stereo), it becomes a Sahara of sound. An endless prog desert where nothing happens at all until the fantastically weird but wonderful 11-minute epic that is ‘Colouring Of Pigeons’, yet even then that’s over 50 minutes into the album. Approach with caution.

Stephen Kelly