I’m not sure how I came across The Knife.

That’s one drawback to having access to so much music in digital form, actually, is that you can have so much you can’t keep track of where it came from. The nice thing about CDs (or cassettes or LPs or anything else more tangible) is that you can look at it and know where it came from.

Not necessarily in a music-geek High Fidelity way, either. But I’d know, for example, why The Knife’s eponymous CD was on my shelf. As it is, I’ve got this song from somewhere, and I can’t recall where the reference came from.

Regardless, I woke up with the opening line to the lyric for Reindeer in my head this morning: Reindeer, reindeer, reindeer / I caught one of your horns.

That should give you a sense of what The Knife is like. Playful, political, vaguely experimental, and a bit weird.

I like them.