David Emery OnlineThe Knife - Silent Shout
7 December 2006
Continuing my list of the best albums of 2006 at number 8 comes The Knife’s latest album, Silent Shout.
The Knife are a band that almost completely defy description, and Silent Shout is a truly amazing and unique piece of work. Hauntingly beautiful, whilst also dark and disturbing it really does sounds quite unlike everything else.
In fact, I won’t even try – here’s one of the best songs off the album, Like a Pen:
Interestingly, I find that this album – which is almost all brilliance, with only one or two tracks that aren’t up to the extremely high standard of the rest – works best shuffled in with other stuff. There’s something wonderful about having a sudden injection of bonkers electronica-pop into a otherwise straightforward mix of indie-alternative.