Silent Shout: Обзор альбома и признание критики

the album

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, Deep Cuts (2003). 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.

Silent Shout is a synth pop and techno album. The collaboration between Olof and Karin Dreijer was described by the French pop culture magazine Magic as Jay Jay Johanson meets Siouxsie. Pitchfork viewed Karin's performance on the album as a "shrill voice (think Björk by way of Ari Up by way of Siouxsie Sioux by way of Mu's Mutsumi Kanamori)".

Silent Shout received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on 22 reviews. and the title track the second best song. The song was also listed at number 74 on the website's list of "The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s", while the album was placed at number 15 on its list of "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s". The album placed 15th in The Wires year end critics' poll. Resident Advisor named Silent Shout the second best album of 2006 and ninth best album of the 2000s decade. In 2009, the album was included at number five on Clashs "Essential 50" list. Silent Shout was placed at number 95 on Slant Magazines list of the best albums of the 2000s. musicOMH, when compiling its "21 Best Albums of the 2000s" list, placed the album at number seven. On their "50 Greatest Albums of the 2000s" feature, Gigwise placed the album at number seven, calling it "ground breaking" and stating, "On the first spin it's baffling, second it's intriguing, but many listens in and you realize that Karin and Dreijer have concocted a masterpiece of their genre." The album was ranked number 83 on Pitchforks People's List, a readers' poll of the 200 best albums from Pitchforks first 15 years (1996–2011).

As of January 2013, Silent Shout had sold 65,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In October 2011, the album was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA), which indicated sales in excess of 75,000 copies throughout Europe.

+ Release history for Silent Shout Region Date Edition Label Ref. (Reference) Sweden 17 February 2006 Standard Rabid Germany 17 March 2006 V2 United Kingdom 20 March 2006 Brille Australia 17 May 2006 Hussle Sweden 2 July 2006 Deluxe Rabid United Kingdom Brille United States 17 July 2006 Mute 25 July 2006 Standard