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| Released | 17 February 2006 (2006-02-17) | |||
| Recorded | March 2004 – November 2005 in Stockholm | |||
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| Length | 48:36 | |||
| Label | Rabid | |||
| Producer | The Knife | |||
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Silent Shout is the third studio album by Swedishelectronic music duothe Knife, released on 17 February 2006 byRabid Records. The album is darker than its predecessor,Deep Cuts (2003).[1] 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 animatorOskar Fischinger and the comic book seriesBlack Hole by American cartoonistCharles Burns.[2]
A three-disc deluxe edition ofSilent 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 DVDSilent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience (which contains the Knife's live concert inGothenburg on 12 April 2006, as part of theirSilent 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 asynth-pop[3] andtechno[4] album. The collaboration betweenOlof andKarin Dreijer was described by the French pop culture magazineMagic asJay-Jay Johanson meetsSiouxsie.[5]Pitchfork viewed Karin's performance on the album as a "shrill voice (thinkBjörk by way ofAri Up by way of Siouxsie Sioux by way of Mu's Mutsumi Kanamori)".[1] Karin's multi-tracked vocals were frequently pitch-shifted to produce a "creepy result".[1]The Austin Chronicle also said that sonically, the music merged "Siouxsie Sioux withAphex Twin".[6]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 74/100[7] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [8] |
| The Guardian |  [9] |
| The Irish Times | [10] |
| MSN Music (Consumer Guide) | A−[11] |
| The Observer | [12] |
| Pitchfork | 8.6/10[1] |
| Resident Advisor | 3.5/5[13] |
| Slant Magazine |  [14] |
| Spin | [15] |
| Uncut | [16] |
Silent Shout received generally positive reviews from music critics. AtMetacritic, which assigns anormalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received anaverage score of 74, based on 22 reviews.[7]Pitchfork named it the best album of 2006[17] and the title track the second best song.[18] The song was also listed at number 74 on the website's list of "The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s",[19] while the album was placed at number 15 on its list of "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s".[20] The album placed 15th inThe Wire's year-end critics' poll.[21]
Resident Advisor namedSilent Shout the second best album of 2006[22] and ninth best album of the 2000s decade.[23] In 2009, the album was included at number five onClash's "Essential 50" list.[24]Silent Shout was placed at number 95 onSlant Magazine's list of the best albums of the 2000s.[25]musicOMH, when compiling its "21 Best Albums of the 2000s" list, placed the album at number seven. On their "50 Greatest Albums of the 2000s" feature,Gigwise placed the album at number seven, calling it "ground-breaking" and stating, "On the first spin it's baffling, second it's intriguing, but many listens in and you realize that Karin and Olaf [sic] Dreijer have concocted a masterpiece of their genre."[26]
The album was ranked number 83 onPitchfork's People's List, a readers' poll of the 200 best albums fromPitchfork's first 15 years (1996–2011).[27]
As of January 2013,Silent Shout had sold 65,000 copies in the United States, according toNielsen SoundScan.[28] In October 2011, the album was awarded a gold certification from theIndependent Music Companies Association (IMPALA), which indicated sales in excess of 75,000 copies throughout Europe.[29]
All lyrics are written bythe Knife, except where noted; all music is composed by the Knife.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Silent Shout" | 4:53 |
| 2. | "Neverland" | 3:38 |
| 3. | "The Captain" | 6:08 |
| 4. | "We Share Our Mothers' Health" | 4:11 |
| 5. | "Na Na Na" | 2:27 |
| 6. | "Marble House" (lyrics: the Knife,Jay-Jay Johanson) | 5:18 |
| 7. | "Like a Pen" | 6:13 |
| 8. | "From Off to On" | 3:58 |
| 9. | "Forest Families" | 4:08 |
| 10. | "One Hit" | 4:27 |
| 11. | "Still Light" | 3:15 |
| Total length: | 48:36 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Pass This On" | 5:38 |
| 2. | "The Captain" | 6:10 |
| 3. | "We Share Our Mothers' Health" | 4:27 |
| 4. | "You Make Me Like Charity" | 4:20 |
| 5. | "Marble House" | 5:00 |
| 6. | "Forest Families" | 4:22 |
| 7. | "Kino" | 4:56 |
| 8. | "Heartbeats" | 4:22 |
| 9. | "Silent Shout" | 5:25 |
| 10. | "From Off to On" | 5:30 |
| No. | Title | Director(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Pass This On" | 5:38 | |
| 2. | "The Captain" | 6:10 | |
| 3. | "We Share Our Mothers' Health" | 4:27 | |
| 4. | "You Make Me Like Charity" | 4:20 | |
| 5. | "Marble House" | 5:00 | |
| 6. | "Forest Families" | 4:22 | |
| 7. | "Kino" | 4:56 | |
| 8. | "Heartbeats" | 4:22 | |
| 9. | "Silent Shout" | 5:25 | |
| 10. | "From Off to On" | 5:30 | |
| 11. | "N.Y. Hotel" (music video) |
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| 12. | "Heartbeats" (music video) |
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| 13. | "You Take My Breath Away" (music video) | Henry Moore Selder | |
| 14. | "Pass This On" (music video) | Johan Renck | |
| 15. | "Handy-Man" (music video) | Bold Faces | |
| 16. | "You Take My Breath Away II" (music video) | Peter Geschwind | |
| 17. | "Silent Shout" (music video) | Nilsson | |
| 18. | "Marble House I" (music video) | Björn Renner | |
| 19. | "We Share Our Mothers' Health" (music video) | Motomichi Nakamura | |
| 20. | "Like a Pen" (music video) | Nilsson | |
| 21. | "Marble House II" (music video) | Chris Hopewell | |
| 22. | "When I Found The Knife" (short film) | Vardag | 5:04 |
Credits adapted from the liner notes ofSilent Shout.[30]
Weekly charts[edit]
| Year-end charts[edit]
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| Region | Date | Edition | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 17 February 2006 | Standard | Rabid | [39] |
| Germany | 17 March 2006 | V2 | [40] | |
| United Kingdom | 20 March 2006 | Brille | [41] | |
| Australia | 17 May 2006 | Hussle | [42] | |
| Sweden | 2 July 2006 | Deluxe | Rabid | [43] |
| United Kingdom | Brille | [44] | ||
| United States | 17 July 2006 | Mute | [45] | |
| 25 July 2006 | Standard | [46] |
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