{"id":1079,"date":"2024-01-14T17:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dothemeaning.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2024-01-14T17:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T17:49:23","slug":"week-2-colouring-of-pigeons-the-knife-feat-mount-sims-planningtorock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dothemeaning.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/14\/week-2-colouring-of-pigeons-the-knife-feat-mount-sims-planningtorock\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 : Colouring of Pigeons &#8211; The Knife feat.Mount Sims &#038; Planningtorock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The Knife separated in 2014, and 2014 was 10 years ago. All good? Excellent, for it&#8217;s time for your 11-minute-long song. This is an extremely ambitious song that feels like an opera, taking you through the history of Earth and its creatures (mainly its birds). If that doesn&#8217;t make you want to listen to it, then I can&#8217;t help you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Knife - &#039;Colouring of Pigeons&#039; | Official Audio\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FaT7ZCxI71k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<!--more READ MORE-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Columbia livia<br>Great ages through<br>Course of days<br>Tumblers, Jacobins<br>Beak shapes, skeletal traits<br>Runts and Carriers<br>Wooden hexagonal cage<br>Pouters and Fantails<br>Tail feathers at what age?<br>(<em>The delight of once again being home<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Everything in this song is excellent: the different voices blending together, the percussions that would send any self-respecting contemporary dance teacher into a transe, and these strange, strange lyrics. When the singing does actually venture into the opera realm, it&#8217;s deeply moving. I wish I could sing &#8220;Tail feathers at what age?&#8221; at such a volume. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The ending of the song is very ominous. Even though Karin Dreijer&#8217;s voice has been repeating over and over, &#8220;The delight of once again being home,&#8221; what is left of home when the percussions stop and buzzing factory-like noises creep in and replace everything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week we were in the depths of the ocean with <a href=\"https:\/\/dothemeaning.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/week-1-all-alone-with-seas-r-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Week 1 : All Alone With Seas \u2013 R.Missing\">&#8220;All alone with seas&#8221;<\/a>, now we&#8217;re up in the sky. I&#8217;m starting to think I&#8217;m running a travel blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-uni-05-53-font-family\">writing prompt of the week: Pick an animal or a type of animal; it must be the central subject of your song. Now build around it. I believe in you; you can do it. Answer Below or in your favorite bird-shaped notebook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Knife separated in 2014, and 2014 was 10 years ago. All good? Excellent, for it&#8217;s time for your 11-minute-long song. This is an extremely ambitious song that feels like an opera, taking you through the history of Earth and its creatures (mainly its birds). If that doesn&#8217;t make you want to listen to it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,32,45,49,59,70],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-week","tag-electro","tag-indie-pop","tag-music","tag-playlist","tag-song","tag-weeklyprompt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"wptouch-new-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"dothemeaning","author_link":"https:\/\/dothemeaning.com\/index.php\/author\/adam-defalvard\/"},"uagb_comment_info":4,"uagb_excerpt":"The Knife separated in 2014, and 2014 was 10 years ago. 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