Knife, The
Silent Shout
Down goes the bass, up comes a frantic, melodic synth line. Then the voice, a digitally processed whisper, charges over all. Drums crash in and carry the ‘Silent Shout’ ‘ the title song and the opener on the The Knife’s brilliant third LP ‘ to that dark, sweet spot in your head you never knew you had. But it gets better. Karin Dreijer’s voice begins to thaw on ‘Neverland,’ where she’s ’singing for money/that burns in my hand’ while brother Olof instrumentally pushes the song to a dramatic, neo-Wagnerian rise and fall in the background. When Stockholm-based The Knife slows the pace and shifts into more atmospheric terrain ‘ like on ‘The Captain,’ ‘Still Life’ and ‘From Off to On’ ‘ it doesn’t miss the beats. Then surrender to the agitprop stunner ‘Forest Families,’ a lurid picaresque about ‘communists in the family’ and a girl whose ‘favorite book was dirty’ and let it push you into a still stranger, deeper place.
[...] they are working on a new album, their first proper full-length since 2006’s five-star album, Silent Shout. In the interim, Karin Dreijer Andersson has been wowing fans with her Fever Ray solo project, [...]