Silent Shout

Silent Shout
Studio album by The Knife
Released 17 February 2006 (2006-02-17)
Recorded March 2004 – November 2005 in Stockholm
Genre Electropop, synthpop, minimal techno, tech house, dark ambient, industrial, experimental
Length 48:36
Label Rabid
Producer The Knife
The Knife chronology
Hannah med H Soundtrack
(2003)		 Silent Shout
(2006)		 Tomorrow, In a Year
(2010)

Silent Shout is the third studio album (excluding Hannah med H Soundtrack) by Swedish electronic duo The Knife. It was initially released in Sweden on 15 February 2006 by Rabid Records, and subsequently in the rest of Europe the following month and in the United States on 25 July by Mute Records. Silent Shout is darker than its predecessor, 2003's Deep Cuts.[1] The album spawned five singles: "Silent Shout", "Marble House", "Like a Pen", "We Share Our Mothers' Health" and "Na Na Na".

The album, the music video for the title track and some of the press photos were inspired by Black Hole by American cartoonist Charles Burns.[2]

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.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (74/100)[3]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [4]
BBC Music (positive)[5]
Drowned in Sound (10/10)[6]
The Guardian [7]
The Observer [8]
Pitchfork Media (8.6/10)[1]
PopMatters (8/10)[9]
Slant Magazine [10]
Stylus Magazine (A)[11]
The Village Voice (positive)[12]

Silent Shout received very positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 22 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[3] Pitchfork Media named it the best album of 2006,[13] with its title track being ranked the second best song of the year.[14] The song was also listed at number seventy-four on the website's list of The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s,[15] while the album was placed at number fifteen on its list of The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.[16]

Resident Advisor—an online magazine with a focus on electronic music—named Silent Shout the second best album of 2006[17] and ninth best album of the 2000s decade.[18] In 2009 the album was included at number five on Clash's Essential 50 list.[19] Silent Shout was placed at number ninety-five on Slant Magazine's list of the best albums of the 2000s.[20]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by The Knife, except where noted. 

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" (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

Deluxe edition

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2006–07) Peak
position
Australian Dance Albums Chart[21] 15
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[22] 47
European Top 100 Albums[23] 55
Norwegian Albums Chart[24] 25
Swedish Albums Chart[25] 1
US Top Electronic Albums[26] 12

Year-end charts

Chart (2006) Position
Swedish Albums Chart[27] 46

Release history

Country Date Label Edition
Sweden[28] 17 February 2006 Rabid Records Standard
Germany[29] 17 March 2006 V2 Records
United Kingdom[30] 20 March 2006 Brille Records
Australia[31] 17 May 2006 Hussle Recordings
Sweden[32] 2 July 2006 Rabid Records Deluxe
United Kingdom[33] Brille Records
United States[34][35] 17 July 2006 Mute Records
25 July 2006 Standard

References

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  4. ^ Phares, Heather. "Silent Shout – The Knife – Review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/album/silent-shout-r827674/review. Retrieved 11 January 2007. 
  5. ^ Jones, Chris (29 July 2007). "Review of The Knife – Silent Shout (Deluxe Edition)". BBC Music. BBC Online. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/8f8c. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 
  6. ^ Brainlove, John (6 July 2006). "The Knife – Silent Shout". Drowned in Sound. http://drownedinsound.com/releases/7186/reviews/965783-the-long-listen--the-knife-silent-shout. Retrieved 31 May 2006. 
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Preceded by
Laleh by Laleh		 Swedish Albums Chart number-one album
23 February 2006		 Succeeded by
Ett bedårande barn av sin tid by Magnus Uggla
The Knife
Studio albums
The Knife · Deep Cuts · Silent Shout · Tomorrow, In a Year
Soundtracks
Hannah med H  · Afterlame
Singles
"Afraid of You" · "N.Y. Hotel" · "Got 2 Let U" · "Nedsvärtning" · "Heartbeats" · "You Take My Breath Away" · "Pass This On" · "Handy-Man" · "Silent Shout" · "Like a Pen" · "Marble House" · "We Share Our Mothers' Health" · "Christmas Reindeer"
Compilation/DVDs
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