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The Knife: Scala, London

Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 14 April 2006

IF ANYONE BOUGHT A TICKET for tonight's show because of an advertisement, in which hundreds of coloured balls tumble gaily down a San Francisco hill, they may well have come ill-prepared. That ad's soundtrack was a cover version of 'Heartbeats', wherein José González (who, like the Knife, is Swedish) teased acoustic sunshine from an original that the electronic duo make more sinister than ever tonight.

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