Silent Shout
- The Knife
- Band Name: The Knife
- Record Label: Mute / Brille / Rabid
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2006
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100This is one of the most rich and accomplished albums of recent times. Essential.
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100While their sound has become immensely creepier, it has also improbably become more beautiful.
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The musical construction is so jaunty that they can't be serious even if they're cutting their alienated fans out of the joke. [Feb/Mar 2007]
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90A freaky, moving masterpiece. [Aug 2006, p.80]
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While many electronic acts are trying their hand at folkier compositions and attempting to squeeze warmth from the digital realm, The Knife's Silent Shout opts for ice-cold distance. The record suffers nothing for it, instead coming out monolithic and beautiful.
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86As menacing as it is hooky, this is some bracing stuff.
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On Silent Shout, The Knife have shaken off their more tangential musical inclinations and produced an intensely cohesive album, a monochrome rainbow that has emerged from the unfocused torrential rainstorm of before.
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Scaring the abject shit out of you doesn't make it a bad record. It makes it the most arresting electronica album of 2006. [Summer 2006]
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80The sound of a group entering their prime, Silent Shout--strange, bold and tuneful--is textbook Euro-pop. [Apr 2006, p.110]
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A much darker, more ambitious set of songs than the Knife's previous work.
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80It's anybody's guess what a fan of the Gonzalez and Royksopp tracks will make of this beautiful, haunted record, but its dark ingenuity is the kind that keeps electronic music alive.
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80Once you wrap your head around The Knife's strange little world, it's actually a pretty interesting place.
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80There hasn't been such an overtly bleak and dangerous concept album like Silent Shout in quite a long time.
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70"Silent Shout" excels with pulsating electro-rhythms, even though they don't include drums, bass or even a drum and bass sound.
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70And while lyrically nothing comes close to eclipsing the pop genius of "Heartbeats" from their previous release, Deep Cuts, several tracks on Silent Shout demonstrate considerable growth both lyrically and musically, making this a solid follow up from a band that has further evolved their own curious brand of synthpop.
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68When they keep things a little more subtle, Silent Shout is outstanding, but in other places it's just sorta there.
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Merging Siouxsie Sioux with Aphex Twin, Silent Shout twists manipulated sounds around a basic core of addictive rhythm in a convoluted game of tetherball.
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60If you're looking to buy this record on the back of Heartbeats you may be disappointed as it bears little resemblance to the Knife's current work.
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Far too often [Karin's] voice is put through a vocoder, multi-tracked, and treated by various other electronic procedures. The result is that one of the group's main talents is stifled and limited.
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The key is minor, the tone is melancholy, the concerns are callow, but the leitmotif is redeeming.
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50Interesting sounds? To be sure. Impenetrable songs? That, too. [#73, p.94]
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10A hideous mess of electro noodling and maddeningly obtuse, tuneless vocals. [May 2006, p.126]
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