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Song · 2002 · Synthpop

Heartbeats (The Knife)

2002

★ 6.6 editorial score

Pitchfork's fifteenth-best song of the 2000s, the Dreijer siblings' synth pulse, later stripped to one acoustic guitar by Jose Gonzalez.

Genre

Subject

Lost love Desire Nostalgia

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Quote · 2002

“Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart.”

Haruki Murakami

Quote · 1984

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”

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Quote · 1834

“Bygone images, and scenes of early life, have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown from the spice-islands of Youth and Hope-those twin realities of this phantom world!”

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