Album Info Hide Show Artist: Knife, The In Collaboration With Mount Sims And Planningtorock Album: Tomorrow, In A Year Released: Sweden, 2021 Tracklist: A1 Intro A2 Epochs A3 Geology A4 Upheaved A5 Minerals B1 Ebb Tide Explorer B2 Variation Of Birds B3 Letter To Henslow B4 Schoal Swarm Orchestra C1 Annies Box C2 Tumult C3 Colouring Of Pigeons D1 Seeds D2 Tomorrow In A Year D3 The Height Of Summer Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show The Knife never did easy, but Tomorrow, in a Year is bold even by their standards. Released in 2010 on Rabid Records, it grew out of a commission from Danish arts group Hotel Pro Forma to create an electronic opera inspired by Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species. The stage production premiered in 2009 at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, and the recorded version landed the following year as a full album made with Mount Sims and Planningtorock. It plays like a document of the whole experiment, not just a souvenir. You can hear the rigor and the curiosity in every strange, patient swell. The first stretch feels like creation in slow motion. Tones creep in from the edges. Voices appear as texture rather than chorus. It is The Knife in a lab, testing elements and letting them react. Field recordings and synth drones rub together until the friction starts to sing. Mount Sims and Planningtorock help widen the palette, so this isnt a typical band-plus-guests situation. It feels like a true three-way build, a study that avoids easy payoffs for mood and motion. You can picture the stage lighting shifting with the sound, bodies moving through fog, Darwins ideas humming under the action. Then comes the showstopper. Colouring of Pigeons sits near the middle, an eleven minute bloom that finally opens into melody. Karin Dreijers voice rises through rippling percussion and strings that feel like a nest being woven in real time. Planningtorocks presence is felt in the arrangement and the vocals that circle Karins lines. It is sumptuous and tender, one of those songs that suggests entire worlds just by repeating small gestures. The Knife shared it as a free download ahead of the album, and it still stands as the piece that sells the project to anyone who worries the word opera means homework. The record pulls back into abstraction after that, and the tension between research and release becomes the point. Titles like Seeds, Variation of Birds, and Annies Box nod to Darwins notebooks and his family life. Annies Box, in particular, carries emotional weight, echoing the story of Darwins daughter Anne and the grief that shaped his view of nature and faith. The music doesnt narrate the biography line by line, but it holds those themes in its bones. You hear processes, cycles, things mutating and settling into new forms. Beats are sparse and tactile. High tones flicker like insect wings. Bass rolls through like weather fronts. The Knife were always interested in how sound hits the body, and Tomorrow, in a Year tests that idea with a scientists patience. Bits of birdsong and environmental texture sit against clean, almost clinical synths. It would be easy for a project this conceptual to dry out, yet it doesnt. Theres heat in the tiny details and a sly sense of drama in how the collaborators use silence. Planningtorocks ear for theatrical tension and Mount Sims rhythmic instincts give Olof and Karin new surfaces to push against. It feels like they built a modular instrument out of three minds and a stack of source material. Critics handled it with a mix of awe and caution, which makes sense. It wasnt Silent Shout part two. It asked for time and offered a very specific reward. Publications like The Guardian, Pitchfork, and Resident Advisor all dug into its ambition and singled out Colouring of Pigeons as the accessible gateway. Live, the piece made sense as theatre, and on record it holds up as a daring studio construction that documents a unique commission rather than attempting to retrofit it into pop. If youre a collector, Tomorrow, In A Year vinyl is an essential curiosity. The space in these mixes really breathes on a turntable. I still remember spotting a clean copy at a Melbourne record store and knowing it would anchor a whole weekend. The Knife vinyl tends to disappear fast, so if you want to buy The Knife records online, keep an eye on reputable shops and dont sleep on restocks. It rounds out any shelf of The Knife albums on vinyl by showing a side of the duo that explains the leap to later projects and Karins Fever Ray work. It is not background music. It is a world to enter, a patient listen that rewards attention and a bit of faith. For fans who like their electronic music with ideas and a physical sense of space, this album keeps giving. If youre hunting vinyl records Australia wide or scrolling late at night for that Rabid Records spine, this is one to grab. It tells the story of evolution through sound, and it still feels alive. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review