The Knife co-founder’s third solo album finds them swapping edge for the ‘peaceful sadness’ of age – a new shade of nonconformism for a musician famed for their socialist, genderqueer politics
A recommendation from Oprah is enough to launch any book into the bestsellers list, but it still can’t explain why one 1999 work of Black feminist thought has recently become the designated emotional handbook of the heartbroken. If you’ve not read All About Love by bell hooks, you’ve probably had it recommended to you – or at least seen extracts on Instagram accounts like @savedbythebellhooks, where stills from the 90s teen show Saved By the Bell are matched with lengthy quotes on patriarchal masculinity and revolutionary struggle.
The book offers very useful definitions of love, Karin Dreijer is explaining. More than just the emotional goo that fills our private lives, love can be a political force. “It’s an action, it’s a verb, it’s something that we do,” the Swedish singer and producer says. But loving each other “requires time – and it’s hard to find the time that it takes to have good relationships within our capitalist system”.
