Shaking the Habitual Diaries". The album's second single, "A Tooth for an Eye", was released on 18 February 2013, for which a music video was directed by Roxy Farhat and Kakan Hermansson. The duo embarked upon the Shaking the Habitual Tour in support of the album, starting in Bremen, Germany on 26 April 2013. On 18 April 2011, it was announced that The Knife was recording a new album, initially set to be released in 2012, through a post on the duo's website about the housing rights of Romani people in Rome. "Shaking the Habitual" was officially announced on 12 December 2012, along
Shaking the Habitual Knife released a Marit Östberg-directed video titled "Shaking the Habitual – The Interview", explaining the process of making the album. They state, "What we do is political. That should be impossible to misunderstand." They criticise the institution of the royal family and the nuclear family calling it "an institution that conserves inequality, injustice and exclusion", while advocating for living "in solidarity beyond nuclear families, nations and economical unions." In an interview with Pitchfork Media, Karin suggested that "people would be happier sharing things and being much more of a collective rather than working from these neo-liberal ideas of just looking