The Knife reveal bizarre new video

Swedish electronic duo The Knife have revealed a rather bizarre short film to accompany their new 10-minute single, ‘Full of Fire’.

Directed by feminist porn creator Marit Östberg, the video features quite provocative scenes of bondage, protests, gender-bending incongruity, and a woman pissing in the street. It may sound like a total headfuck, but the visuals actually suit the track’s ominous electro vibes like a glove.

"The film 'Full of Fire' started to grow as an embryo in the song's lines 'Who looks after my story',” explains Östberg in a statement via the band.

“Who takes care of our stories when the big history, written by straight rich white men, erase the complexity of human's lives, desires and conditions? The film 'Full of Fire' consists of a network of fates, fears, cravings, longings, losses, and promises. Fates that at first sight seem isolated from each other, but if we pay attention, we can see that everything essentially moves into each other. Our lives are intertwined and our eyes on each other, our sounds and smells, mean something. Our actions create reality, we create each other. We are never faceless, not even in the most grey anonymous streets of the city. We will never stop being responsible, being extensions, of one another. We will never stop longing for each other, and for something else."

‘Full of Fire’ is taken from Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer’s fourth studio album as The Knife, Shaking The Habitual, which marks the much anticipated follow-up to 2006’s Silent Shout.

Shaking The Habitual is due out April 8.