Silent Shout

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At once massively influential and totally inimitable, The Knife’s third studio album, <i>Silent Shout</i>, made a meteor-sized impression upon its arrival in 2006—a time in which electronic and dance-oriented sounds were starting to commingle with indie-pop’s wistfulne, anticipating the rough-and-tumble thump of bloghouse that was to come. <i>Silent Shout</i> felt and still feels like a true shock to the system, its dark-hued and utterly gothic spin on electronic pop a stark deviation from The Knife’s 2003 predecessor <i>Deep Cuts</i>. That album had earned the group—consisting of Swedish siblings Karin and Olof Dreijer—plenty of attention, thanks to the buoyant single “Heartbeat,” as well as a blog-viral cover from dusky folk countryman José González. If The Knife was previously known for bouncy, slightly off-kilter melodie, <i>Silent Shout</i> represents the duo pouring jet-black oil over their shiny synth sound, with drum machines ricocheting around Karin’s otherworldly, digitally processed vocal. It’s music that is scary as it is beautiful—like exploring a dark castle by candlelight. .

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