On behalf of the Danish theater company Hotel Pro Forma is "Tomorrow, in a Year" came from The Knife, which is said careful not typical of the oeuvre of The Knife or Karin Dreijer Andersson, though the melodrama that of the otherwise rather electronic music Knife and Fever Ray apart is highly succeeded moved here in a more classical context. Theme of the play is Darwin's theory of evolution, the The Knive reacted with numerous guests, including Matthew Sims, Janine Rostron, Kristina Wahlin, Lærke Winther or Jonathan Johansson plus numerous instrumentalists. The result is neither Pop nor opera, neither danceable yet advanced civilization, but a kind of radio play Cutup, an auditory experience that is sometimes exhausting, sometimes exciting, but 'especially intensively headphones heard' at any moment fascinating. The plate is so different to everything the Dreijers have produced that one involuntarily wonders how the two then ever want to find their way back to normal pop, without making it too easy occurs them. Bulky, painful one hand, orchestral-terrific on the other hand is Tomorrow, In A Year a Lynchesquer soundtrack, which also hijacked without the image productions and dance performances to in a world in which it bubbles, squeaks, pounding and booms, in the mechanics of life becomes a pumping machinery, by its dark-lit, weakly fluorescent guts to lead us musicians. Sometimes that is also something to onomatopoeic, such as in "Letter to Henslow", on the other hand creates a track like "The Height of Summer" a quite stable walkable bridge to the previous output of the siblings. Outstanding track and not in vain released as "Single" is "Colouring of Pigeons", an eleven minute, wonderfully successful fusion of classical elements and Popattitude, reminiscent of a the Canadian band Moev ("Crucify Me") bass line, KDAS singing, the Mezzosporan by Kristina Wahlin, and a hyperactive percussion. Is ambitious, crazy, clever "Tomorrow, in a Year" a bold concept album that highlights the seemingly insatiable appetite of Dreijers to experiment, coarseness, otherness and represents perhaps the best ever work of both.
