The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock have been busy on an opera about Charles Darwin. And judging from the preview track it is about as bizarre and wonderful as you would expect.

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The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock – “Colouring Of Pigeons”

Performances are scheduled for Athens (8-9 Jan), Stockholm (29 Jan-1 Feb), and Munster (5 June). The studio album comes out March 1st.

Double disc set — tracklisting

Tracklist:
CD 1
01. Intro
02. Epochs
03. Geology
04. Upheaved
05. Minerals
06. Ebb Tide Explorer
07. Variation of Birds
08. Letter to Henslow
09. Schoal Swarm Orchestra

CD 2
01. Annie’s Box
02. Tumult
03. Colouring of Pigeons
04. Seeds
05. Tomorrow in a Year
06. The Height of Summer

Bonus track
07. Annie’s Box (alt. vocal)