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While Karin Dreijer Andersson of Swedish electronic duo The Knife and Fever Ray says she has no plans confirmed for 2010 yet, she’s hinted at new material with The Knife bandmate Olof Dreijer.

Her and her brother’s third album Silent Shout was released back in 2006 with Karin’s side-project Fever Ray, out in March of this year.

Karin let 6 Music in on what she and Olof have been up to in the meantime.

"We have been working for two years now with an opera about Charles Darwin and that one will be released in January," she explained.

Karin and her co-hort wrote the score with a Danish theatre group, Hotel Pro Forma, for an operatic project titled Tomorrow, In A Year.

The show premiered in September in Copenhagen and has toured Germany, France and a few other countries around Europe, with Sweden the next stop.

"Last time, it was five years ago or something when we started the last one, but I think we’re both very keen on playing instruments now."

Karin Dreijer Andersson

As for what’s happening with The Knife, she revealed conversations about future material with her sibling have begun: "We’ve just talked a bit about starting to play together but nothing decided yet."

Although it is too early to give anything away, she told us where they might go with a fourth album.

"I don’t know what it will be like this time," she explained. "I think every time is very different from each other.

"Last time, it was five years ago or something when we started the last one, but I think we’re both very keen on playing instruments now."

The singer’s solo effort under the moniker Fever Ray was critically lauded, as was the one-off date she played on 5 December at London's Kentish Town Forum.

When asked if she plans to make a second album under that alias, she replied: "I think so, sometime in the future, but I don’t know when."