#use knife

This luscious frozen pie is made with chocolate pudding, whipped topping, and lots and lots of crushed chocolate cream-filled cookies. And, the crust is chocolate too.

Use Knife - Ptolemaic

Since releasing their acclaimed debut album 'The Shedding of Skin' in 2022, Belgian-Iraqi trio Use Knife have only deepened their collaboration; if its predecessor was a way to reconcile the process of meeting and working together, 'État Coupable' is a genuine fusion of culture and politics that merges each of their skills in profoundly new ways. Vocalist and percussionist Saif Al-Qaissy, who fled Iraq because of war, is even more vivid with his storytelling this time around, layering poetic images and anecdotes that help humanize a complex, misunderstood narrative. Singing in Arabic over analog synths, samples and instrumental bursts from Stef Heeren and Kwinten Mordijck, Al-Qaissy tells a necessary tale of freedom, responsibility and the gulf between the Eastern and Western mindset. Even the instrumentation itself reflects this constant friction; intuitively muddling distorted industrial textures and jerky EBM pulses with brittle Iraqi rhythms and tonalities, Use Knife devise their own distinct harmony against the dissonant global backdrop. Use Knife is Kwinten Mordijck: baritone, alto & tube saxophones, synthesizers, sampling, shouting Saif Al-Qaissy: dohola, darbuka, daf, tar, riq, raq, kishba, vocals Stef Heeren: beat programming, synthesizers, vocals with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh: buzuq and electronics on ‘État Coupable’ and rababah on ‘A Reckoning’ Spooky-J: drums on ‘Freedom, Asshole’. Youniss Ahamad: visuals Che Mali Wali is an Iraqi traditional. Graphic design by Farah Fayyad Artwork by Youniss Ahamad

Bangs like crazy. A couple points that you may be tempted to describe as a slog, but tbh I think it just adds to atmosphere

Use Knife - Freedom, Asshole (feat. Spooky-J)

Use Knife - État Coupable (feat. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh)