Silent Shout - The Knife
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74 out of 100

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8.6 out of 10

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  • Summary: This is the third album (and first American release) for the Swedish brother-sister electro-pop duo of Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. Drowned In Sound
    100
    This is one of the most rich and accomplished albums of recent times. Essential.
  2. Under The Radar
    80
    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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  3. musicOMH.com
    60
    If 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.
  4. Q Magazine
    10
    A hideous mess of electro noodling and maddeningly obtuse, tuneless vocals. [May 2006, p.126]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 52
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 52
  3. Negative: 3 out of 52
  1. listener
    10
    Well people from Q certainly have reason to feel like fools because 7 years later it's quite obvious that Silent Shout is modern masterpiece and one of very best albums of whole decade.… Expand
  2. indigodark
    8
    This album is absolutely fantastic - the etheral darkness of it suits the jagged hookiness of the synths and to be honest, I think the vocals add to the otherworldlybe more than they do distract!… Expand
  3. JackD
    7
    I love The Knife, and this album is quite decent. But "scary"? Absolutely not. This isn't "horror pop", it's "halloween pop". Anyone scared by this needs to listen to some Coil, Nurse With Wound, or even the newer Gary Numan releases... Overall worth hearing if not buying, but I wish Karin would write some lyrics that someone besides just HER would find emotional/intellectual merit in.… Expand
  4. [Anonymous]
    0
    Just awful.

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