Album Abandon Ship (KNIFE PARTY). Songs and videos online

Abandon Ship is the upcoming debut studio album from Australian electro house duo Knife Party. It is due for release on 24 November 2014 after being postponed from the 27 October 2014 and is to be released by Earstorm Records and Big Beat Records. However, on the 7th of November 2014, the iTunes Store released the album early, and has been acknowledged by Knife Party themselves. Work on Knife Party's debut album started in September 2013, after the conclusion of their previous tour. By 4 June 2014, progress on Abandon Ship had reached a completion of nine tracks out of a desired twelve for release, with "five in the "maybe" pile and five in the "ideas" stage". The album is scheduled to go into it's mastering stage in July 2014. The title of the album, Abandon Ship, was unveiled on June 8, 2014 by Knife Party through a post on social networking service Twitter, which was illustrated with the image of President Calvin Coolidge tipping his hat. Knife Party appeared at the 2014 Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, Nevada on 20 June 2014 for the first show of the duo's Festival Tour during mid 2014. Their 70-minute set at EDC, which included new tracks from Abandon Ship in both demo and studio form, was streamed live over the internet. On 6 August 2014, Rob Swire released a teaser for the track "Boss Mode", from the forthcoming album. "Resistance" was released for free on 25 August 2014, also available for sale and supported by BBC Radio 1Xtra DJs including MistaJam. On 22 August 2014, the album was formally announced on Twitter, and is scheduled for release on 10 November 2014. "Begin Again" was released as the album's second instant grat on 22 September 2014, entering the UK Singles Chart at number 183. The song received widespread airplay from BBC Radio 1 DJs, including Zane Lowe and Greg James.

In a series of tweets on October 11, 2014, shortly after it was announced that the album release date had been pushed back by 2 weeks for reasons out of Knife Party's control, Swire spoke up about the decision to make the album; "So close to finishing this thing. Can't believe it. Before we embarked on this some people in our sphere of influence told us "don't bother, just release your previous EPs as an album. EDM is dead, you should just release all your old material on one CD, fulfil the contract and then do something with Pendulum. I realised that if an artist I liked released an album of old tunes, I'd be pissed off. So we wrote 12 from scratch and it took forever. But I'm so glad we did it."