Silent Shout is the third studio album by Swedish electronic music duo the Knife, released on 17 February 2006 by Rabid Records. The album is darker than its predecessor, Deep Cuts (2003). It spawned four singles: "Silent Shout", "Marble House", "We Share Our Mothers' Health" and "Like a Pen".
The album, the music video for the title track and some of the press photos were inspired by the work of German-American animator Oskar Fischinger and the comic book series Black Hole by American cartoonist Charles Burns.
A three-disc deluxe edition of Silent Shout was released in Europe on 2 July 2007 and in the US on 17 July. In addition to the studio album, this package includes the DVD Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience (which contains the Knife's live concert in Gothenburg on 12 April 2006, as part of their Silent Shout tour, and all of the duo's music videos to date), as well as a CD of the concert's audio.
Silent Shout is the third and best album of the electronic duo The Knife. This one is the first one with the dark feeling that Karin Dreijer fully exhibits as Fever Ray. Pitch-shifted vocals and unearthing samples that create a dystopian soundscape. Lot's of fun...not. But great music.
This was a surprising album. I'm always a bit sceptical when I read 'electronic music', but this was kinda experimental in a fun way. It may not be the 'danceable' type, but I liked it
Ah, older project from Fever Ray! Weirdo electronica piece, occasionally annoying, but still compelling. Rounding up the 4.5, and I'll mark another notch under "demonstrations that the UK simply can't compete with continental europe when it comes to electronica"
A homecoming. 268 scrobbles across The Knife's catalogue and this took almost 10 years to come up — criminal. We Share Our Mothers' Health and Forest Families were the particular standouts but honestly it's all good. Dark Swedish electronica at its finest, a joy to revisit.
I was aware of Karin Dreijer because of Fever Ray. I recall my brother mentioning her brother and this band when we talked about that, but I never actually checked any of it out. The kinship is clearly enough, and I liked this, though mostly the vocals seemed best treated as another instrument - lyricallynit didnt do a lot for me.
The Swedes have an incredibly distinct sound, I checked immediately if Björk was behind this project given how similar the vocals were. The music itself was a welcome blast from the past, the arpeggiated synths and warm pads invoking a heavy dose of nostalgia for a golden age pf electronica. The vocals and melodic similarity between tracks did start to wear on me towards the end of the listen, but I enjoyed this one overall. Great add for some international diversity and more electronica on the user list.
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