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The Knife have big plans for America. As previously reported, they will play their first two of four U.S. shows in New York during the CMJ Music Marathon, and now Mute, the duo's U.S. label, will re-release their first two LPs just one day before those shows. That's right-- Halloween, bitches.

These will be the first Stateside releases of 2001's The Knife and 2003's Deep Cuts, both of which come with bonus tracks. The Knife has three: "High School Poem", "Hannah's Conscious", and "Vegetarian Restaurant". Deep Cuts comes as a two-disc CD/DVD package; the CD has five bonus tracks, including the Rex the Dog remix of "Heartbeats" and the Mylo remix of "You Take My Breath Away". The DVD has six videos (two for "You Take My Breath Away" alone) and a short film titled When I Found the Knife, by Frau Rabid.

The Knife will head out on a short tour of Europe in October before playing those aforementioned shows in New York and then moving on to California.

The Knife tracklist:

01 Neon
02 Lasagna
03 Kino
04 I Just Had to Die
05 I Take Time
06 Parade
07 Zapata
08 Bird
09 N.Y. Hotel
10 A Lung
11 Reindeer
12 High School Poem
13 Hannah's Conscious
14 Vegetarian Restaurant

Deep Cuts tracklist:

CD:

01 Heartbeats
02 Girls Night Out
03 Pass This On
04 One for You
05 The Cop
06 Listen Now
07 She's Having a Baby
08 You Take My Breath Away
09 Rock Classics
10 Is It Medicine
11 You Make Me Like Charity
12 Got to Let You
13 Behind the Bushes
14 Hangin' Out
15 This Is Now
16 Handy Man
17 The Bridge
18 Heartbeats (Rex the Dog Remix)
19 You Take My Breath Away (Mylo Remix)

DVD:

01 When I Found the Knife, by Frau Rabid
02 You Take My Breath Away (I)
03 You Take My Breath Away (II)
04 Handy-Man
05 Pass This On
06 Heartbeats
07 N.Y. Hotel

Dates:

10-10 Milan, Italy - Magazzini Generali
10-12 Paris, France - La Cigale
10-13 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
10-14 London, England - The Forum
10-15 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso
10-16 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
10-17 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
11-01 New York, NY - Webster Hall (early show)
11-01 New York, NY - Webster Hall (late show)
11-03 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine
11-04 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theater