Track Listing

1. Silent Shout
2. Neverland
3. The Captain
4. We Share Our Mother's Health
5. Na Na Na
6. Marble House
7. Like a Pen
8. From Off to On
9. Forest Families
10. One Hit
11. Still Light

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35386 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-25
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Deluxe 3 Disc edition of the Knife's 2006 album. Now re-released featuring the original album, live album and live DVD entitled Silent Shout an audio visual experience. Live album was recorded in Sweden , late 2006 whilst the DVD also includes 11 Knife videos plus a short film, a total of 22 tracks. DVD is UK Region 2 PAL format only.

Customer Reviews

Elegant Electronica
The Knife slips its blade in slowly in this, their third and eeriest ablum to date. Their sound has never been so insidious and effective.

Most of the songs loom large and unapologetic on a static-heavy foundation of pure electronica. The Knife experiments with some serious, in-your-face sound changes, most of them involving bizarre vocal arrangements (that sound melted, tweaked, and tweezered) and massive chunks of computerized noise.

When they're not infiltrating the nerves with schizophrenic, hyper-active machinery ("We Share Our Mother's Health" and "Like A Pen"), they're lulling listeners into dim groves of lyrical whispers ("Forest Families" and "One Hit"). This is the kind of album that's so avant-garde, so experimental, so hard to define and yet so insistently familiar that the urge to compare it to other records of its kind is almost unresistible.

But, in all honesty, there really is no other record to compare it to. The techno-militant urgency of "Neverland," the winding orchestral phantasms of "Marble House," the star-lit brilliance of the title track -- they may play like the distant cousins of Bjork, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, or the Sneaker Pimps, but they are still indelibly unique. Fans of electronic music will be more than pleased, and everyone else may just find a few reasons to give the genre a more serious look.

best singer in years
After cheesy pop "Deep Cuts" (that featured the hit "Heartbeats") I could never expect this from The Knife, this album is so different, so weird in a good way and Karin Dreijer Andersson?s voice is very thrilling, most of the times it?s doubled with octavesup and make their sound even odder...standouts are "captain", which starts like an average new age song and finishes with a beautiful chinese melody and "marble house" which will probably be their next single. Try to listen Royksopp?s "what else is there" featuring Karin...This is ABBA on acid. Brilliant!!

electronic done right
Silent Shout deserves to be in the company of such groundbreaking electronic albums as #1 by Fischerspooner and Mezzanine by Massive Attack. Simply put, this is an amazing album from beginning to end. I will admit that I wasn't so enthralled with it on the first, second, or even third listen, but right now I'm absolutely loving it. If you're like me and you didn't get it on the first listen, give it some time and I promise you won't be disappointed. It's a shame that this album will stay largely under the radar. The masses don't know what they're missing.