Silent Shout - The Knife
Metascore
74 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
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  1. Drowned In Sound
    100
    This is one of the most rich and accomplished albums of recent times. Essential.
  2. Stylus Magazine
    100
    While their sound has become immensely creepier, it has also improbably become more beautiful.
  3. MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)
    91
    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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  4. Spin
    90
    A freaky, moving masterpiece. [Aug 2006, p.80]
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  5. Delusions of Adequacy
    90
    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.
  6. Pitchfork
    86
    As menacing as it is hooky, this is some bracing stuff.
  7. cokemachineglow
    82
    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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User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 80 Ratings

User 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.… Full Review »
  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!… Full Review »
  3. DavidT
    9
    Wow! totally unique! wasn't sure at first, but seriously keep listening to it and you will fall deep into the darkly sinister world silent shout creates. Silent shout 9.3/10 Neverland 8.4/10 The Captain 8.6/10 We Share Our Mothers Health 9.1/10 Na Na Na 7.5/10 Marble House 8.9/10 Like A Pen 9.0/10 From Off To On 8.3/10 Forest Families 7.8/10 One Hit 8.3/10 Still Light 8.1/10 I budged it up to 9 for the overarching, incredibly dark, mysterious and sinister atmosphere achieved through each song on the entire album.… Full Review »
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