tune: The Knife - Marble House
album: Silent Shout (Mute, 2006)
scene: A frozen landscape caught in polar night and grand constructions of metal and ice razed by wild, childish games. The atmosphere conjured by the first minute or so of the track is what is really illustrated here: it feels like a very cold, empty space with endless, low skies. There is a clicking of activity and a sluggish build to something not entirely pleasant.
The Knife are consistently haunting for me, weaving about me a shroud with threads of the eccentric, mysterious, perverted, alien, and magical. They inspire me often with vivid imagery.