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Silent Shout by: The Knife

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Publisher: Brille
Release date: 20th March, 2006
Media: Audio CD

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Track List

• Silent Shout
• Neverland
• The Captain
• We Share Our Mothers Health
• Na Na Na
• Marble House
• Like A Pen
• From Off To On
• Forest Families
• One Hit
• Still Light

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Rating: - DARK & POWERFUL FROM THE COLD NORTH

yeah it's a bit dunkel but polished performances and very very intense. Sorry my vocabulary isn't developed enough to like, drop names of other bands. This CD is hard to get but worth the effort

Rating: - Pradeep B RE

This is a very good album, except just one song,"we share our mother's health." My favourite song is "Silent shout." I like The Knife.
Pradeep age 7 .

Rating: - ukhik

One of the greatest sounding records ever designed, seriously. There is an approach, almost entirely contained within electronic music, very dear to my heart, and that is producing tracks that seem to have had no human contact before you arrived. Sure, you read the reviews, listen to the mp3s floating around, have you hipster friends inanely hyping it up, but when you give it time to settle down and swim around your mind for a while, it seems like an untouched world. That doesn't mean that the music lacks emotion, just that there is no immediately recognisable human emotion beneath the surface to sink your proverbial teeth into; like, there is no happy, angry or sad, just atmosphere and space and your own thoughts. This can often be more powerful than straightforward aggression or sob stories over guitars, so it's delightful to hear a record that delivers this as expertly as Silent Shout. There are vocals, sure, but even these seem to have all humanity sucked out of them. All we are left with is a vacuum of sound, and that is impressive enough to make me forget the major missteps that occur as this record spins, particularly towards the end. Oh, life!

Rating: - Sheer luck...

having heard one song on KEXP, I was intrigued enough to find out about Knife--and remembered that the vocalist here did 'what else is there?'
All I can say is this is mysterious, dark and dreamy-the compositions and the things Karin does with her voice make her several cuts above the two chord flat-meandering s of many singers. ie She is brilliant!
More than awesome. much more
My only confusion is that there are listings of a 4 CD box-is this true?
I have the 3 disc

Rating: - Cuts deep

This Swedish electropp dup is still pretty low-profile, though the Knife seem to be following in the footsteps of Broadcast -- eerie, atmospheric, pretty pop music. Third album "Silent Shout" returns to the band's root sounds, after the harder techno of their last album, and it's a breath of electronic fresh air.

It opens with the blippy, spacey beats of the title track, which shimmers all over the place over some heavy grounding beats. A chorus of voices murmur, like a choir of robots. It's a great intro, and it's a big contrast to the song that comes after it -- the ominous, stomping techno of "Neverland."

The rest of the album is an attempt to reconcile the two previous sounds the band has had -- hard techno, and airy electropop. After "Neverland," there are a couple straightforward techno songs that sound like a spacier Autechre, including the robotic "Like A Pen" and the schizophrenic space bleeps of "We Share Our Mothers' Health."

But the majority of these songs are softer and stranger. The Knife dips into spacey experimental music, tropical ambience with eerie yowls, shimmery electropop, ominous lullabies, and one song that sounds like a distress call from a spaceship, set to a soft electronic beat. It winds up with the undulating, whispery "Still Light," which is perhaps the creepiest song of all.

In "Silent Shout," the Knife strike a good balance between techno and experimental soundscapes, which was missing from their previous two albums -- both were good, but they had entirely different music. They've learned moderation, using the harder beats in a softer melody, and also creating dreamy soundscapes that may not get people dancing, but might transport them to another planet.

The harder beats don't even sound catchy -- they sound more like a sonic attack. Other synth gets twisted into kettle drums, pretty shimmers, and eerie sonic walls. Karin's voice is heavily filtered by computers, but this isn't done because it's a bad voice. Rather, it makes the pretty, fragile vocals fit in with the otherworldly music, as she lets out a series of Bjorkian yowls and murmurs.

The Knife would do a great job with the soundtrack to a sci-fi movie, since they already have the right sound -- chilly, eerie and beautiful.

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