History YMMV / TheKnife

* CreepyAwesome: Almost everything they do, and ''literally'' everything Karin did in her first Fever Ray album.

* ReclusiveArtist: Zig-zagged. They tend to shy away from press attention, but they've stated multiple times that they're open to interviews and have done a lot of them, but they just refuse ones that try to pry into their personal lives. Karin appears to be more amiable to interviews when she was promoting Fever Ray.

* SignatureSong: Either "Heartbeats", "Full of Fire" or "We Share Our Mother's Health", probably depending on when you first got into the band.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Trawling through the comments on [=SongMeanings.net=] will give you thousands of interpretations for each song.
** Funnily enough, Swedish critics (and fans) increasingly tend to find them {{Anvilicious}} - but due partly to PopculturalOsmosisFailure and [[CultureClash Swedish politics being a bit to the left of US politics to start with]], YMMV on how much of that carries over to non-Swedish listeners.

** "Silent Shout" has quite the memorably {{surreal|Horror}} music video, populated with people bearing [[UncannyValley vaguely inhuman]] and [[BodyHorror distorted]] faces soullessly lipsyncing to the song. The song itself even uses [[http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/teethdreams.pl?method=exact&header=dreamid&search=teethintro actual nightmare tropes]]:

* NightmareFuel: Karin has admitted that her husband is often leery about letting their kids listen to her music.

** ''The Captain'', which was used in the beginning of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY7Tge7ftxM 9 Movie Trailer]], is perfect for the desolate tone the movie gives.

** Sure, Na Na Na ''sounds'' innocuous to begin with, but [[LyricalDissonance then you hear the lyrics]]:
-->I've got mace, pepper-spray\\

** ''Silent Shout'' even uses [[http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/teethdreams.pl?method=exact&header=dreamid&search=teethintro actual nightmare tropes]]:
-->In a dream I lost my teeth again\\

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The entirety of ''Silent Shout'', it's often regarded as a modern classic.
** ''The Captain'', which was used in the beginning of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY7Tge7ftxM 9 Movie Trailer]], is perfect for the desolate tone the movie gives.

* CreepyAwesome: Almost everything they do, and ''literally'' everything Karin does in her solo act as Fever Ray.

* SignatureSong: Either ''Full of Fire'' or ''We Share Our Mother's Health'', probably depending on when you first got into the band.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Trawling through the comments on Song Meanings.net will give you thousands of interpretations for each song.

** Full of Fire off Shaking The Habitual.
*** Quite a few of the tracks off of 'Shaking the Habitual' are filled with Nightmare Fuel, such as "A Cherry On Top", "Fracking Fluid Injection" and the 19-minute long "Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized".

* Full of Fire off Shaking The Habitual.

* NightmareFuel:

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Trawling through the comments on Song Meanings.net will give you thousands of interpretations for each song.

* CoveredUp: The Jose Gonzalez cover of ''Heartbeats'' is probably better known than the original.