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Silent Shout

The Knife · 2006

• Scores: Noise 2, Unease 3, Complexity 2 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Electronic, Synth-Pop
• Mood: cold, eerie, tense
• Sound: synthesizers, pitched-down vocals, dark electronics, pulsing rhythms, minimal arrangements

The Knife recorded this in Stockholm between March 2004 and November 2005, with Karin and Olof Dreijer producing and mixing. It is darker synth-pop and techno than their previous album, Deep Cuts, with Karin's vocals multi-tracked and often pitch-shifted into something eerie. Jay-Jay Johanson sings on Marble House. The record, its title-track video and some press photos drew on the animator Oskar Fischinger and Charles Burns's comic series Black Hole.

Track list

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 (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)