Silent Shout

This article is about the album. For the song, see Silent Shout (song). For the live DVD, see Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience.
Silent Shout
Studio album by The Knife
Released 17 February 2006
Recorded March 2004 – November 2005 in Stockholm
Genre Synthpop, minimal techno, tech house, dark ambient, IDM,[1][2] 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)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 74/100[3]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Drowned in Sound 10/10[4]
The Guardian [5]
The Observer [6]
Pitchfork Media 8.6/10[2]
PopMatters 8/10[7]
Slant Magazine [8]
Spin [9]
Stylus Magazine A[10]
The Village Voice favorable[11]

Silent Shout is the third studio album by Swedish electronic music duo The Knife, released on 17 February 2006 by Rabid Records. The album is darker than its predecessor, 2003's Deep Cuts.[2] It spawned four singles: "Silent Shout", "Marble House", "Like a Pen" and "We Share Our Mothers' Health".

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.[12]

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.

Critical reception

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] musicOMH, when compiling its "21 Best Albums of the 2000s", placed the album at number 7. In their "50 Greatest albums of the 2000s" feature, Gigwise placed the album at number 7, calling it "ground-breaking" and stating that "On the first spin it’s baffling, second it’s intriguing, but many listens in and you realize that Karin and Olaf Dreijer have concocted a masterpiece of their genre." [21]

The album was ranked number eighty-three on Pitchfork Media's People's List, a readers' poll of the 200 best albums from Pitchfork's first fifteen years (1996–2011).[22]

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[23] 15
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[24] 47
European Top 100 Albums[25] 55
Norwegian Albums Chart[26] 25
Swedish Albums Chart[27] 1
US Top Electronic Albums[28] 12

Year-end charts

Chart (2006) Position
Swedish Albums Chart[29] 46

Release history

Region Date Label Edition
Sweden[30] 17 February 2006 Rabid Records Standard
Germany[31] 17 March 2006 V2 Records
United Kingdom[32] 20 March 2006 Brille Records
Australia[33] 17 May 2006 Hussle Recordings
Sweden[34] 2 July 2006 Rabid Records Deluxe
United Kingdom[35] Brille Records
United States[36] 17 July 2006 Mute Records
25 July 2006 Standard

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Phares, Heather. "Silent Shout – The Knife". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 11 January 2007.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pytlik, Mark (13 February 2006). "The Knife: Silent Shout". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 13 March 2006.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Silent Shout – The Knife". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  4. ↑ Brainlove, John (6 July 2006). "The Knife – Silent Shout". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 31 May 2006.
  5. ↑ Lynskey, Dorian (24 March 2006). "The Knife, Silent Shout". The Guardian. guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  6. ↑ Swash, Rosie (19 March 2006). "The Knife, Silent Shout". The Observer. guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  7. ↑ Mazur, Matt (27 July 2006). "The Knife: Silent Shout". PopMatters. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
  8. ↑ Keefe, Jonathan (24 July 2006). "The Knife: Silent Shout". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  9. ↑ Stosuy, Brandon (August 2006). "New CDs". Spin 22 (8): 80. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  10. ↑ O'Reilly, Fergal (8 March 2006). "The Knife – Silent Shout". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 31 May 2006.
  11. ↑ Powell, Mike (17 October 2006). "Cutting Wit". The Village Voice. Village Voice Media. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  12. ↑ McLean, Craig (January 2006). "The Knife – Biography". theknife.net. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  13. ↑ "Top 50 Albums of 2006". Pitchfork Media. 19 December 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2006.
  14. ↑ "The Top 100 Tracks of 2006". Pitchfork Media. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2007.
  15. ↑ "The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s". Pitchfork Media. 19 August 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  16. ↑ "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s". Pitchfork Media. 2 October 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  17. ↑ "RA Poll: Top 5 albums of 2006". Resident Advisor. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  18. ↑ "RA Poll: Top 100 albums of the '00s". Resident Advisor. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  19. ↑ "Clash Essential 50". Clash. 20 April 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  20. ↑ "Best of the Aughts: Albums". Slant Magazine. 1 February 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  21. ↑ "Gigwise: The 50 Greatest albums of the 2000s". Gigwise. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  22. ↑ "People's List". Pitchfork Media. 21 August 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
  23. ↑ "ARIA Dance – Week Commencing 12th June 2006" (PDF). ARIA Charts. Pandora Archive. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
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  25. ↑ "European Albums – Week of March 11, 2006". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
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  27. ↑ "The Knife – Silent Shout". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  28. ↑ "The Knife Album & Song Chart History – Dance/Electronic Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  29. ↑ "Årslista Album – År 2006" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Swedish Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  30. ↑ "Silent Shout – Knife" (in Swedish). CDON.se. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  31. ↑ "Silent Shout: The Knife" (in German). Amazon.de. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  32. ↑ "Knife: Silent Shout". HMV. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
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  35. ↑ "Knife: Silent Shout: Deluxe Edition: 2cd: Includes Dvd". HMV. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  36. ↑