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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Elegant Electronica, December 29, 2006
The Knife slips its blade in slowly in this, their third and eeriest ablum to date. Their sound has never been so insidious and effective.
Most of the songs loom large and unapologetic on a static-heavy foundation of pure electronica. The Knife experiments with some serious, in-your-face sound changes, most of them involving bizarre vocal arrangements (that sound melted, tweaked, and tweezered) and massive chunks of computerized noise.
When they're not infiltrating the nerves with schizophrenic, hyper-active machinery ("We Share Our Mother's Health" and "Like A Pen"), they're lulling listeners into dim groves of lyrical whispers ("Forest Families" and "One Hit"). This is the kind of album that's so avant-garde, so experimental, so hard to define and yet so insistently familiar that the urge to compare it to other records of its kind is almost unresistible.
But, in all honesty, there really is no other record to compare it to. The techno-militant urgency of "Neverland," the winding orchestral phantasms of "Marble House," the star-lit brilliance of the title track -- they may play like the distant cousins of Bjork, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, or the Sneaker Pimps, but they are still indelibly unique. Fans of electronic music will be more than pleased, and everyone else may just find a few reasons to give the genre a more serious look.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
best singer in years, April 24, 2006
After cheesy pop "Deep Cuts" (that featured the hit "Heartbeats") I could never expect this from The Knife, this album is so different, so weird in a good way and Karin Dreijer Andersson?s voice is very thrilling, most of the times it?s doubled with octavesup and make their sound even odder...standouts are "captain", which starts like an average new age song and finishes with a beautiful chinese melody and "marble house" which will probably be their next single. Try to listen Royksopp?s "what else is there" featuring Karin...This is ABBA on acid. Brilliant!!
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16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
electronic done right, February 6, 2007
Silent Shout deserves to be in the company of such groundbreaking electronic albums as #1 by Fischerspooner and Mezzanine by Massive Attack. Simply put, this is an amazing album from beginning to end. I will admit that I wasn't so enthralled with it on the first, second, or even third listen, but right now I'm absolutely loving it. If you're like me and you didn't get it on the first listen, give it some time and I promise you won't be disappointed. It's a shame that this album will stay largely under the radar. The masses don't know what they're missing.
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