The Knife "Silent Shout" March 2006

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If the Destroyer is to be released in February, and it leaked 4 days ago, this should be leaked in 3 weeks...

Predictions, surprises, hints? Anyone?

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

holy shit!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I can't decide which is a more shittily misleading name, Destroyer or Teh Knife.

― Falling down the stairs again (noodle vague), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

I think The Knife do sound a lot like a knife.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

wait, the destroyer shit leaked? oooooooooooh, can someone upload that shit? i loved Your Blues.

― Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

there is nothing misleading about the knife'e name. steve OTM.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Exactly what does a knife sound like?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

listen to "deep cuts" before asking that question.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

(rimshot)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

What is this Destroyer thing? Is it a new Knife single?
Did it leak on Soulseek or something like Oink?
Please?

― Who, Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

This new album BETTER have steel drums on the majority/all of the tracks. Every song from 'Deep Cuts' that used them turned gold.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

"Destroyer" upload somewhat please yeah. I think The Knife may have discreetly become my favourite thing, of all. Possibly the first album is even more perfect than Deep Cuts.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

"Cop" part 2? "I shoot you in the face you motherfucker." It's so all in caps, I don't know, that one always makes me laugh.
Even though I once listened to only "Girls Night Out" for about a week straight, I can't seem to call the Knife above and beyond. I think I can only listen to their stuff repetetively because...well, I think someone around here on another thread actually said this, something about them being attention grabbing yet instantly forgettable. I guess it's because the most of their melodies are sort of this flatline sound pattern.
I don't know, maybe that makes them "above and beyond."
But I don't know whether it's their underlying cheese or just a sarcasm, but they still have this surface quality of embarrasment that I would never bring to a car full of people. not that I care. but. shrug.

I'm betting Silent Shout won't be too large a departure, considering that title sort of goes with their whole motif. I'd like to hear it, though.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Sony uses José González cover of "Heartbeats" in new Bravia commercial:

http://www.bravia-advert.com/music/index.html

The commercial itself is pretty kewl, but they seem to be jonesing pretty hard over JG.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Saturday, 17 December 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Here's the new Knife song, 'Silent Shout'. It's not great. Not when set next to Heartbeats. People I've played it to have variously described it as "a bit Jean Michel Jarre" and "spoo-ooky goth shit" and "that bloody keyboard bit makes me feel like I'm ill and I need to hold my nose to blow out my ears".

http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1CN1IZ4ZKQM6A1I51IMKW3UHMW

― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

That song is surprisingly bad.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Saturday, 7 January 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh, you just want heartbeats pt 2?

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

YETH

― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's a grower, not a shower

― davidsim (davidsim), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

i like it. kind of evil.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

i like it. i wish the vocal hook was more pronounced, but still knife goodness.

― cheshire_05, Sunday, 8 January 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I love it, but it wouldn't make the slightest difference to me if the vocals were removed altogether. It's like a lost Orbital track or something...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

The synth playing is really poor though. I mean, if there's not going to be a hook (there doesn't have to be...but this IS a single), then it should at least be sonically interesting. There's just nothing to this song.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

The new The Knife album will be called "silent shout" like the first single.
http://www.theknife.net/o0o.html

― Besh, Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, braniac, what do you think this thread is for?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

BRAINIAC.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

this song is brilliant. dark and scary and gorgeous.

― lovetodie, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

video looks creepy

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

where is video?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

just going by the stills on the site

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Because some people thinks the new album is called "destroyer". Braniac...always loves misspelled insults...

― Besh, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

even though she doesn't talk much specifically about "Silent shout", here's a new interview with Karin from The Knife: http://www.itsatrap.com/index.php?article=161

(done together with Jenny Wilson who you might also know from that "List of demands" clip with Robyn)

― Avi (Avi), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

i listened to the radio rip but surely it's a (trancey) remix rather than the original?!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

is the Jenny Wilson LP any good? i do like her vocals on 'You Take My Breath Away' a lot.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

decide for yourself, the entire album is available for streaming: http://www.jennywilson.net/flash.htm

― Avi (Avi), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

The single's been released on iTunes.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Instant reaction = I really like it, it reminds me of Sasha (!) and for the first time in ages I'm genuinely excited by remix prospects.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

leak'd

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

first listen right now it seems good.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

like a pen is awesome

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

this is cold, dark, and evil. it is fantastic. very much a winter album!

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 21 January 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

please someone upload this album for me. PLEASEEEEE

cutty?

― yo, Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

the captain:

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=343N4XRLKCH9Z0X6UFK23YICFL

we share our mother's health:

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BTHI67MBGR770M7U6WZELEQM6

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my, "Like A Pen" is fantastic.

― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 21 January 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

holy damn, those two songs are something else!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the beat of "mother's health" is completely bonkers. and obv, the vocals.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

cutty you rule. thanks so much. can you keep doing more?
i saw you like circlesquare, have you heard his Xmas song he sent out?

his grizzly bear remix is great
that whole remix cd is great

― yo, Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

Here's "Like A Pen"

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1NCJ8MO3L36VJ39UZPBCXGL0OD

― the dude abides, Sunday, 22 January 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know how comfortable i feel with posting the whole album here.

HOWEVER, i would love to hear circlesquare's xmas track. maybe post it on the circlesquare thread?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 22 January 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Is it just me or are those tracks seriously fucked up? I just get an endless stutter and the timepiece in Winamp goes bonkers.

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Sunday, 22 January 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's just me. Sorry about that. Fucking computer shit.

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Sunday, 22 January 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

come on cutty. post the whole album.

― yo, Sunday, 22 January 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3433991

― full album ok, Sunday, 22 January 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, too bad this torrent is essentially not working for me

wish they were just mp3s
i don't get this torrent shit

― yo, Sunday, 22 January 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on

As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Sunday, 22 January 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

yo, get 1 slsk

― not that hard, Sunday, 22 January 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

neverland:

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=32KJMYKE3S64L3QF2GG5Q9RX48

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 22 January 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't heard the full album yet but this is going to be very prog indeed, isn't it?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 22 January 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

it's fucking out there man. polar opposite to deep cuts.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 22 January 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

ie: shite

― papal brush, Sunday, 22 January 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

less bouncy, less fun.

more ponderous, more\\\zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

― papal brush, Sunday, 22 January 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

it is true there is nothing "fun" about this record. however, that does not make it shite!

http://www.theknife.net/images/intro_01.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 22 January 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I really like it so far. It's like chopped and screwed electro-pop.

― snowballing (snowballing), Sunday, 22 January 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

this keeps getting better and better.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone post more tracks? My Bit Torrent is not working.

― Colin, Monday, 23 January 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

do they still sound like a knife or have they progressed their sound to that of other cutting implements?

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Monday, 23 January 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

new Knife, from the little bits I've heard (thanks cutty) makes me think of Broadcast. Not that they sound like Broadcast, but that bit of experimentalism, strange sounds, dissonance, weird vocals etc.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 23 January 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

'F As In Knife' is ace and skill. It's 'Running Up That Hill' as done by Xenomania if they were making Nadine Coyle sing at gunpoint. I've been unable to even THINK about listening to the rest of the record so far.

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think this record is really great! It doesn't have any songs as mindblowing as "Heartbeats," "Is It Medicine," or "You Take My Breath Away," but it's more consistent and the general feel of the album is pretty unique. Their production aesthetic is pushed to an extreme on this record, and I like that a lot. It's one of those records where you get the sense that they had a bunker mentality when they made it, like they were drawing a line between themselves and the outside world.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 23 January 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

The music sounds like Mr Fingers in a goth mood.

― snowballing (snowballing), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

What is 'F Is For Knife'? I don't see it on the album. (And hi j0e, hope to see you in London on the 18th Feb!)

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

f as in knife? answers, i need answerrrsss...smweofnnf jksjskjsjsjs

guud rekkid

― w00t is it, Monday, 23 January 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, as w00t eloquently pointed out it is, of course, 'F As In Knife' and not 'F Is For Knife' as I dumbly put it.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

i stil don't know what track you are talking about

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Only j0e does..

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was track 12 on the album. That's how it was when I downloaded it anyway. I believe a YSI this way cometh...

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 23 January 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, I'm just in middle of uploading to YSI. It's puzzling though, the 'composer' field in the mp3 tag of this particular track has the words 'boyleg prank' in it. I got the 11 track album from the torrent above and the 'composer' is empty for each track. ILM, can you solve this puzzle?

PS. The track is just as ace as j0e described it. It could almost be a cover of 'Running Up that Hill', and it has all the necessary Xenomania blips and bleeps to make it great.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

And here we go: http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id%3d3BVIQG2N5DGK231XY0WFCG69EQ

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I have just been poking in Winamp. And the comment tag says "Zeigest - Tarheart". For which I can find one Google hit, here - http://www.length.se/ - and I don't speak Swedish so I have no idea what it says. Anyone? Anyone? I think I've been had :'(

(Pisses on Silent Shout though)

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

That's the "additional comment" tag btw - the Artist, Album etc say The Knife / Silent Shout. I'm not daft.

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ah yeah, that seems to be an mp3 blog. They've linked to a mp3 called 'Zeigest - Tarheart' (http://www.length.se/media/tarheart.mp3) which IS this 'F As In Knife' song. So it looks like it's not the Knife after all. It's catchier than anything on the album though.

And for anyone who speaks Swedish, here's the accompanying text:

Zeigeist är ett kinderägg. -Åh, ett ägg av performance, koreografi och häftiga scenkostymer! Oj, inuti ligger en leksak som spelar känslig, poppig electro!

Bilden kommer från Zeigeists spelning på GS2Hell på nyårsafton. På fredag (i morgon) spelar de på Nöjesguidens årsfest.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-but it sounds so much like them! Even down to the Robynesque Who's That Girl-type intro! Don't do this to me, internet!

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Noticed that a few people on SLSK are sharing it as part of the album now too...

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I was gonna say it reminded me more of (Knife-produced) Robyn than proper Knife. Maybe they produced this track? If so, they should do MORE producing and less avant-gardey stuff that sounds impressive on first listen but won't be on my mp3 player for much longer. Yes.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

i dont think silent shout sounds impressive on first listen. it sounds impressive on headphones on 10th listen.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think Silent Shout sounds impressive right away, but it doesn't sound really good until after you get to know it.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm disappointed with it because nothing immediately jumps out and shouts I SOUND GREAT ON THE DANCEFLOOR. Well nothing apart from this alleged fake track 12.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

it's the remixes that are going to sound great on the dancefloor. not the album.

heartbeats was too slow to dance to anyway, that's why we got the rex the dog remix.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

heartbeats was too slow to dance to anyway

Thousands upon thousands of Mancunian clubbers would disagree.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

But anyway.. what does everyone think of this fake Knife track?

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

This track is fantastic. And Google reveals nothing about its mystery.

― johnathan dowe (jdowe), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

"And here we go: http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id%3d3BVIQG2N5DGK231XY0WFCG69EQ
-- Affectian (niche_ia...), January 23rd, 2006."

Weird - this sends me just to the main YSI site.

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a translation of the swedish blog text:

zeigeist is a kinder egg. oh, an egg of performance, choreography and wild scene costumes! oi, in it is a toy which plays emotional, poppy electro!

The picture is from zeigeists gig at gaystraight2hell on new years eve. On friday (tomorrow) they play at nõjesguidens (a swedish magazine) party.

Another swedish page says they're dutch, but I couldn't find any other info.

― cutthroat allan, Monday, 23 January 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

BOatA, try this link instead: http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BVIQG2N5DGK231XY0WFCG69EQ

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

thanks!

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

No worries, what do you think of it?

zeigeist is a kinder egg. oh, an egg of performance

I love this line, thanks for that Allan. Any news on whether they're Knife-produced or just Knife-influenced?

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

man, it's pretty goth! i like that the steel drums make a comeback.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

zeigest. wow.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

all these ysi's are tremendous. very excited!!

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Umm...I don't hear any steel drums. I wish I did!

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

They're there in "Neverland".. or they sound like steel drums to me at least, just w/a lot of heavy echo/delay. Like in "Pass this On" but with a more reverb.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

from off to on:

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1DAOUX9TCPLX02MMLU0EB2RXI8

forest families:

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BTXAOECENQ9T2K2DGD8JG2AKM

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

what's with all the YSI's when that torrent link works for the entire album.

now where's the SPARKS album plz :-)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

some people are torrent retarded.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I approve of this record. I've been kind of waiting for a record like it that attempts to re-coolify electronic's most maligned edges.

― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm finding it it a little dreary so far to be honest. And I've never been won over by that voice, like if Bjork were always in her desperate-and-frenzied mode.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

j0e's first comment on this thread is where i am now at. this Zeigest thing totally KILLS, can't wait to hear it out.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

i am going to become a dj just so i can play zeigeist.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

and people can say "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!"

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Zeigest thread

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Psst, j0e. This has nothing to do with The Knife but as I'm presuming you'll see this here, does that hotmail address actually work? I've emailed you (and I've lost yer old one).

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Zeitgeist certainly isn't on my promo copy.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Matt, I've dropped you a line from my proper addy fella...

(Lurkers, you can go back to sleep now)

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought I didn't like them, but Anna was playing the new album last night and it made me go "What *IS* this?!?!?" (in a good way.) I liked the girly vocals/mental electro combination.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really enjoying this.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

So am I. For today, my favourite is "One Hit".

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite lately is "from off to on" but "mother's health" is really something. especially when the deep voice comes in: "looking better, shining brighter..."

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

marble house starts off OMDish and ends up army of lovers-y (= it is the best song ever obv), and oh my there's early 808-state sounds and *feints*

unfortunately i keep singing "billy don't be a hero" over the bassline of "neverland". which is unfair

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

the stately male vox in "marble house" are pretty funny

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

the guy in Marble House is Jay-Jay Johansson, if I'm not mistaken. also, that song is to be the first single.

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH why have i not listened to this yet?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

actually, silent shout is the first single.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Definetly one of my favourites, looking eagerly to the next Jenny Wilson stuff, too.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I meant the next single.
http://www.border.se/Skivinfo.php?skiva=RABID031

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

is it just me or is "f as in knife" pretty much kate bush's "running up that hill" exactly??

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

read the thread yancey!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

listening to the first four tracks now. bloody great.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

The mystery song really is a monster. Something fresh about it coming from the guy's voice, which tugs against the rest of it by sounding at times -- probably unintentionally, like the hairstyles found in historical period movies when seen 20 years later, but in real-time --- like something from Mercury Rev or Built to Spill

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea what you just said.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'm listening to a different mystery track!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

the "oh man" shout is great, yes, tracer?

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Tracer - upload your mystery track! I am suddenly obsessed with what brilliance can be unearthed by people cynically relabelling their own MP3s.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 28 January 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

This sounds like standing in the kitchen of the worst party in the world.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

And that's not a criticism of the record in the slightest! It's the EMPTINESS of this record that gets to me.

I'm also kind of glad it's not the kind of straightforward electropop record that would be absurdly fashionable now. There was something I said on the original Heartbeats thread about a sense of tackiness and tastelessness interweaving with this amazing songwriting that made you nostalgic for things you thought you'd never feel nostalgic for. And they do it again here by dragging in all these dreary and maligned Jean Michel Jarreisms and it all somehow makes perfect sense.

I'm kind of obsessed with Marble House.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also, there must be another example of a female vocalist lowering the pitch to such an extent they sound like a bloke, but I can't think of one.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

i can't think of anything to compare the knife to at all.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, "Marble House" is great. By the third listen I had tears in my eyes.

Two examples off the top of my head of female vocalists lowering the pitch of their voices to the extent that they sound like a man--

Kate Bush, outro of "Running Up That Hill";
Madonna, looped 'sorry' in "Sorry".

― Catherine Ryan (and so this is catherine), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also, there must be another example of a female vocalist lowering the pitch to such an extent they sound like a bloke, but I can't think of one.

Leila Arab
Pooka on Orbital's 'Otono' maybe, tho they were challenging Alison Goldfrapp completely there

this being different from women with voices naturally so deep they sound like men anyway (e.g. Sarah Vaughan, and maybe that Pointer Sister on 'Automatic'!)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

heh, channeling not challenging

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

they really need to announce a tour already

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

somone contact their agents get all their publicity here, it would be cheaper for em

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

i am assuming no one is putting this out in the US

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

my "mystery track" is the Zeigeist song. still not gettin into the vocals of der knife but maybe the long dubs will bring me around, should they exist.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 29 January 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Silent Shout video: http://exodus.interoutemediaservices.com/?id=1c4bba8a-2416-4e88-82c1-ae40b49e38c1&delivery=stream

― Avi (Avi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

i can't think of anything to compare the knife to at all.

the vocals remind me of mu a bit.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

anyone got links to other knife vids? thx!

― jaime, Thursday, 2 February 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

Cool video.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 2 February 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

Heard a track, it was beautiful. Too bad I can't stand her voice. It's aural kryptonite.

That's why remixes are such a great invention, the William Acidic Circuits remix of Silent Shout is amazing (she's barely on it :)

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

this album actually reminds me most of Kate Bush circa Hounds of Love, but a lot more extravagant, pointed. and yeah, the voice (which I happen to like) seems to polarize people.

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I am loving this album. I haven't really heard anything like it before.

― Harpal (harpal), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

dominique will you be reviewing this? plz don't let someone else, thx.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

no, but I know who is

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

bah

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Knife present 6 Mix on 6 Music this Sunday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/6mix/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

hi cutty

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh, what a treat!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

cheers, Omar!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

for you ppl with oink accounts, just head on over and check out the knife's soundtrack to the movie "hannah med h".

the movie isn't amazing (read: bad) but the soundtrack has a couple of fun tracks.. (some where re-released as bonustracks on the UK double CD/DVD version of deep cuts.. ).

enjoy.

― G77, Friday, 3 February 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

i am really enjoying this, a lot more than deep cuts. i love the way it's kind of sludgy even though it's high-and-piping...

today i've put up at gramophone another version of "Heartbeats", recorded at a BBC session last year... it's much closer to the Silent Shout sound; heavier, deeper. (better.) maybe everyone's heard it by now; i dunno.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

NOW ..for the next 2 hours

The Knife present the 6 Mix on 6 Music

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/6mix/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 5 February 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, just started listening to this album. It's rather good isn't it? I especially like The Captain and also track 10 with all the "How how how how" stuff on it.

Why do they make me think of a disco version of wolf parade?

It'll be interesting to see how it stands up over time. While I do like it I wonder if repeated plays might reveal a few flaws. It is very thin on "proper tunes" and there's almost more filler than song, but it is nice to just have on and just get into this twilight-y vibe.

I find it strange that the hot new pick for 2006 is ghostly pirate shanties set to industrial goth backing. I can imagine this being played at Electrowerkz.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Why do they make me think of a disco version of wolf parade?

this is pretty OTM, although i'd say "electro" more than "disco". and of course all the microhouse people hate wolf parade so you will be condemned for this.

your other comments are also OTM: applause!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

(hi sean!)

so what is the story with this band? i know nothing about them. is this album actually out yet? i was looking for it today in the shops but i didn't know whether to look in dance, rock'n'pop or even metal. Have they been around long?

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

ps - sean, thanks for your offer but i think i'll be sorted for ATP. see you there.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

agree w/vintage latin for the most part - I wonder how this will hold up as well, but from the angle of the amount of craft put into the tracks as opposed to the songs. there are some great melodies here (silent shout, marble house esp), but it seems a greater emphasis is on the details of the instrumental tracks and the vocal processing (which are almost baroque in their finery). I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but my history suggests that if what holds up isn't the songs themselves, I tend not to return to the album as much

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

(Hi, um, dog latin! Okee-doke. My two chalets are essentially now full anyway, so yes, til' anon!)

The Knife have been around for a few years. They've released one album (Deep Cuts), which is much less gloomy. "Heartbeats" is their big hit, covered last year by fellow Swede Jose Gonzalez (whcih because famous after appearing in a Sony commercial.) They've also produced other stuff, namely bits of last year's fan-tas-tic Robyn album.

Silent Shout isn't out for another month or two, I don't think. And even then, I don't know what regions it'll be distributed in. Deep Cuts was notoriously hard to find in North America.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

they have another album before deep cuts, sean! self-titled.

i can't fathom the wolf parade stuff upthread at all.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theknife.net/o0o.html

release dates

SILENT SHOUT
out

15th February - Sweden

8th March -
Scandinavia

20th March -
Europe

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

the production manages to be very simple yet effective - keyboard set to arpeggio; layered and pitch-shifted banshee vocals; minimal 808 beat; coupla cheapy string-synths - but it all works very well. even the song structures are very simplistic. there's actually barely anything going on on this record.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

cutty - oops! my ignorance shines like a sun!

cutty - go listen to "dinner bells" or something. V. different in sound, definitely, but there's something similar too.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

yeh "dinner bells". i was also thinking of "sons and daughters of hungry ghosts" which is almost the same song as track 10 off of silent shout.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

anyone seen the album art yet?

― michael jonze, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ahleman.com/Figures/Banshee.gif

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't that a Tool video?

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

only kidding.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to "Deep Cuts" now - it's quite different isn't it. See, I prefer the new album but I can totally see how people who heard "Deep Cuts" will see it as a disappointment. "Deep Cuts" is a disjointed dance album whereas "Silent Shout" is not a dance album at all.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also - OMG! When I was about 14 and only just learning the guitar, my friend and I actually started a band called Knife. I might still have our "album" cover stored away in the back of a dusty box full of tapes somewhere for proof.

Can I sue?

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

fork off

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

but i only just got here, why leave so spoo... *BLAM!*

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ok I have just totally ruined 'The Captain' for myself by imagining it's The BeeGees.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

you terrible cunt. that was my favourite track on there!

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

wait, i meant improved immeasurably!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

haha, naw - it just adds a comedy aspect to the song. the brothers gibb should totally do a spooky electrogoth album.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's ALL about "Marble House." And, as my friend pointed out last night, Sounds like Kate Bush? "More like Ace of Base" (mind you, this is a good thing). :-)

― Turangalila (Salvador), Saturday, 11 February 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

okay i dunno if Mark P came up with it himself, but kudos for that clever "haunted house" descriptor.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 13 February 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

(mark p. did come up with it himself)

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

thank god, best new music. pitchfork finally gets it with this one

― yes, Monday, 13 February 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

i don't often say this about pfork, but that was a very good review (i had no idea it was officially "out" yet tho).

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of "Marble House" - every time I hear it, I swear that I've heard that melody before, but cannot place it. Any guesses?

I liked Mark's Pfork review too!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

'Marble House' totally fits that haunted house description

― rizzx (Rizz), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Marble House" sounds like Kurt Weill writing a synth pop song (and I'd love to hear Dagmar Krause sing it!)

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

'Forest Families' sounds more or less like a trance track fed through Pygmalion era Slowdive, in slowmo

― rizzx (Rizz), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

it comes out in Sweden this week - moved up a month from the first-announced release date.

not that it really matters since most of y'all probably have the record already, but here's the official e-card thingy: http://www.musicbay.se/buy/index.asp?movie_id=1195&company_id=39

― Avi (Avi), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of "Marble House" - every time I hear it, I swear that I've heard that melody before, but cannot place it. Any guesses?

You can sort of sing "Windmills of your mind" over the top of it.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, the information section of that e-card site is an amazing description of silent shout. can't c'n'p it, though.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Deep Cuts was notoriously hard to find in North America

was available in every Tower Records

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Before the summer/fall of 2005? I think he probably means before its (fairly recent) US release.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

on import as doubledisc since original 2004 release (still not out in the U.S. - though UK V2 version avail from 2005).

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Add me to those upthread saying the Pitchfork review is fantastic. Wise and accessible. Good work, Mark.

― Mike W (caek), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of "Marble House" - every time I hear it, I swear that I've heard that melody before, but cannot place it. Any guesses?

loved the review, mark. as to this question: i still insist it's similar to the theme from alw's phantom of the opera, though i seem to be hearing that in everything lately (cf. elefant)

― marc h. (marc h.), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Pitchfork review often falls into hyperbole. I don't hear an (even indirect) parallel between Kid A and SS, for one thing. This is a very, very cheesy, sleazy, & ridiculous record. And in the melody department, it leaves much to be desired. Mind you, I'm not saying those are bad things; they're a big part of what I like in "Marble House," which sounds very new agey Ace of Base-ish with Enigma on backing vocals to me. I just think calling it particularly "inventive" and "refreshing" seems a bit far off.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Why? Is there a lot of other stuff out there that sounds a lot like it?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of stuff that sounds a lot like it, no. But you could even say that about bad records. Ultimately, I just don't think it's *that good*. And uniqueness doesn't a good record make. But hey, it's only my opinion.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

EDIT: about a lot of bad record, even.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

s. Sheesh, I can't type. Forgive me, I had a surgery performed on my right hand last night.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

so why not good?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

there are a lot of bad records that sound exactly like silent shout but they're a lot worse. silent shout does bad music very well.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Principally, as I said, it's lacking in the melody department quite a lot. Second, the production becomes annoying to me after a while.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

there are a lot of bad records that sound exactly like silent shout but they're a lot worse.

Right, though it doesn't follow from this that this one's particularly *great*

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

tuomas please leave

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

maybe you're just not so into the whole vibe of the whole thing, turangalila. i don't think it's supposed to be particularly melodic nor sound very well produced. in fact the closest thing i can equate it with isn't house or electro, but new wave and particularly the more unfashionable arm of late 80s / early 90s industrial music. Somehow they've taken a style of music that has become completely defunct and updated it for the art-House generation.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Vintage Latin, oh, it's definitely not my style of music. But actually, if the record had more songs with melodies like "Marble House," I'd love it.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's very well produced, melody not being so important for me.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

"From Off to On" is gorgeous. Actually this album is gorgeous.

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

SO gorgeous. love the lyrics, too.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

the last four songs are HUUUUGE.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Silent Shout" music video on YouTube

― Harpal (harpal), Thursday, 16 February 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

woo!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Turangalila, surprised you don't like "Na Na Na". it's a very simple tune, but I like it

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

"na na na" is julee cruise singing in blade runner

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's very well produced, melody not being so important for me.

It's polished but the actual music/sounds are incredibly cheap. Sound like they've been played straight off of a basic keyboard set on arepggio.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I had gone off music this year, and someone recomended the knife to me, dloaded deep cuts and silent shout and have been blown away, realizing had heard a few of the trax in past without knowing them. I have been a big electro fan, darker the better, and always half got into new wave stuff, and i have emersed myslef in these albums listening to them over and over, karins voice is amazing, the music is amazing, the lyrics are amazing. tried to get everything i could get my hands on. nothing else comes close.

― Tim McClare, Monday, 20 February 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

yes this album is special.

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Monday, 20 February 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone heard the "Silent Shout" remixes (other than Williams' mentioned upthread)? The other two are by Troy Pierce and Shinedoe, neither of whom I know anything about, though a trip to Discogs makes it seem like they're pretty unusual choices, hopefully in a good way.

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

Damn that's a lot of comma splices. Ew.

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

"I caught a glimpse now it haunts me"

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

shinedoe remix: http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0W7W2A5MFK5SQ35LXSUERQ79ZD

troy pierce: http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2BRKG3ASMPJKL1KPNU55MWANP7

― TAO (daggerlee), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Eno's Another Green World. Only slightly but it reminds me of that album, somewhere, somehow

― rizzx (Rizz), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

they're playing at Scala on the 10th April! am hoping to be there.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

with Zeigeist supporting!

(Ok that is a lie)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rexthedog.net/news_2005.htm

"March 10th 2006

Woo, eee! Just putting the finishing touches to our remix of 'Marblehouse' by The Knife. The new album by The Knife 'Silent Shout' is another triumph of synthesizer, melody and words. The Knife are the leaders and if you get one album this year, this is it. (Until we release ours, then you could please get that instead...)"

excited by all of that!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

YES

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry if this has been mentioned, but is this album going to get a proper US release? Or should I plan on sucking it up and buying the import?

― Sean Braudis (Sean Braudis), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think Silent Shout sounds impressive right away, but it doesn't sound really good until after you get to know it.

Perps OTM upthread. This album manages to be both instant AND slowburn. Every week a different track becomes my favourite. This week it MUST BE 500 DEGREEEES.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

the knife are a thoroughly wicked band.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Scala gig sold out already!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Shiiiit.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S OUT THERE RIGHT NOW...

but not bought one yet.

any broadsheet reviews? will it be in NME this week? i wonder if it will even make the top 100 albums chart.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

dorian's review in the guardian on friday i think. FOUR STARS

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

"the most commercial song, Marble House, is inspired by both
French musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and sepulchral techno outfit
Sabres of Paradise, and sounds like a synth-pop Kurt Weill duet"

i obviously need some edumacation cos i still think it sounds like OMD and Army of Lovers. i've managed to avoid hearing much sabres except from compilations not showcasing their best stuff.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

ONLY FOUR? KILL TH' FOOL

i really want to see Umbrellas Of Cherbourg.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

marble house sounds like electro-bollywood to me

― hfjsdk, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Have discovered this band thanks to Karin Dreijer's effort on a certain Röyksopp single, and subsequently have picked up not only this album, but also "Deep Cuts", their previous effort. I prefer "Deep Cuts", which has more of that archetypical 80s synthpop thing about it.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Silent Shout" is SOOO much more even, though. The problem with "Deep Cuts" is that all of the songs can operate by themselves, but with one or two exceptions, the transitions and cohesiveness of the album overall 'sound' are sort of lacking. "Silent Shout," on the other hand, is very very dark all the way through, though some tracks are much better than others.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Geir you might actually prefer their first eponymous album. I must YSI 'Parade', it's so jolly!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

it seems philip sherburne convinces pitchfork to let him review silent shout again in the guise of a "this month in techno" column.

good stuff though, i'm so pleased with this criticism this album has been getting.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i bought it yesterday - where is my F as in Knife???! LOLZ

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

out of context but - "like Björk's Debut from 13 years ago"

okay okay!!

I will have to check this out, the 9.0 & "Kid A" allusions from Pitchfork (one every month/year surely?) didn't sway me much, neither did listening to "Marble House" a few times. But that^ is the kind of thing that will do :0

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

(obviously I retained only the most wilfully misrepresentative parts of that review in my brain... reading again now)

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Who else is going to the London gig on the 10th?!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

marblehouse is so not the best song.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I "have" this & am going to listen to it later tonight :)

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

i think this album is really, really incredible.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

i would say loads more - it's the kind of album where comparisons and alignments flood into your head, but at the same time it actually sounds like nothing else AT ALL - but i have to leave work now. and listen to it on the way home. again. but seriously, i am bowled over by it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

i wasn't so much comparing it to björk's "debut" (though there are certainly comparisons to be made between the knife and many points in björk's oeuvre, i think) but rather suggesting (hoping?) that "silent shout" just *might* seduce a few people into following the rabbit hole toward other electronic sounds. then again, "kid A" hardly caused a run on autechre albums, so this is probably wishful thinking (and extraordinarily partisan, at that).

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

i doubt it will even be released in the US!

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - I did say it was out of context ;)

I'm not totally sure I agree, wouldn't fans of the Knife already be open to electronic (electro-pop) sounds? Then again, if they're coming via Jose Gonzalez... Yeah, maybe they might get a taste of something new I suppose.

I listened to this last night anyway (only once though)... it's heavy, and maybe not "difficult" but it's sure as hell leftfield. I'm not at all sure what to make of it yet. I was thinking it might be another one of those records (like Liars - Drum's Not Dead) that I really respect, find sonically adventurous (above the average) and am glad people are making again... but also seem kind of, not incomplete, but oversold and not quite the definitive statement I'd anticipated. But there could be an actual masterpiece to come from them yet.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

keep listening to it! really!

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Man, this reminds me of Portishead more than anyone else!

I agree its very difficult to say exactly what this sounds like except for... "The Knife". There's some real alchemy going on here, like I haven't heard in a while.

I'm not bowled over 100% (yet), but I'm very, very glad I didn't pass this up (thanks Philip!).

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder why no one has mentioned John Foxx. This album is Metamatic with a better singer.

kid A" hardly caused a run on autechre albums

Kid A was for me the reason to dive into electronic music, but i think you´re right though. The main reason most people don´t go any further is that they need vocals. Debut, Kid A, Silent Shout all have vocals, while most electronic music is instumental. I see it happen with my friends all the time, it doens´t really matters if it´s guitars or synths, but when there are no vocals they get bored.

― silas (silas), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Troy Pierce remix!!

is it time for a Gothic Techno '06 thread yet?

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I bought this today, and am not loving it yet... I don't know if I AM going to love it, either.

Deep Cuts was positively breezy, in places. That was what I liked about it. There's a distinct absence of breeziness here. Just a little bit of light would be nice. Overwhelming darkness is sort of...overwhelming

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

3rd listen... I think this could slip away from me after all :/

I'll give this one time though, it has something though, that's for certain.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

I like being overwhelmed personally.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

This is still coming across massively as some kind of "Dummy" for the 00's to me. Maybe I dropped some crack in my tea or something. I'm certainly too brain-tired to go into it in any more detail right now though.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

I have to admit, the real album has been totally dwarfed for me by the Zeigeist track. Maybe I'll try to pay attention to the album again tonight, but it's failed to grab me thus far. (Which is not to say I think it's bad.)

― Mitya (mitya), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

The album to me is marred by too much effects on the vocal (I could do without the lower octave on the vocal on the title track for instance). It is very much an album album, as in individual songs don't hold up as well as the entire opus. I haven't listened to it extensively enough to decide whether it's a grower or not. My favourite track is, quite unsuprisingly as my tastes go, the one with pen in the title that sounds like minimal (I'm away from home at the moment and have only listened to the album perhaps twice so forgive my not being able to name it).

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's called 'shaped like a pen' or something like that, but yeah it does sound like they're really trying to cross into minimal territoty with that track, plus now the Troy Pierce remix. Maybe they'll drop Karin's vox alltogether and use only grainalized vocoder effects in the future.

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they don't. Karin's voice was one of the things I like most about the first album... which is why the vocal effects on this album make it less instantly likeable... actually, its not instantly likeable at all, to be honest. It might grow. If I can be arsed.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 26 March 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's like Björk, if she'd been actually good. In other words, The Knife are so much better, except when they are trying to be like her ("One Hit" for example). Difficult, but interesting record.

― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man... I actually quite like this record, but comparing it to (any) Björk, not even her best stuff, makes The Knife seem just insanely limited in ideas, scope, emotional range, sonic inventiveness and basically, tunes.

The Knife have got a very distinct niche identity going on, within some very tight musical boundaries (not that there's anything inherently bad about that.. I like minimalism) but I'm still finding myself wondering if there's much more to them than that?

Which is to say I think this is a good-to-almost-great record, but maybe not a classic because I feel like I've reached the bottom of it's depth three listens in and it's not given up anything else major or surprising yet.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Karin's one of the few described-as "Björk-like" singers who I don't feel is lazily hanging back and waiting for the praise to flood in for simply wailing away and/or using unconventional(deliberately awkward) phrasing though.

She's great on this record and definitely owns her vocals & style completely.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

(more like four or five than "three" actually!)

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

The vocal interplay does make me think of a more considered & refined Björk and Einar occasionally though!! Which is a fantastic thing indeed.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

fandango, this album is obv doing something to you, you can't stop talking about it.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh definitely!

of everything I've downloaded out of curiosity this year (that I wan't already anticipating) it's by far the most convincing, intriguing & compelling. I can't believe "Forest Families" doesn't wind me up horribly (that lyric ffs!). I'm going to have to catch up with Deep Cuts too. I just need to hear this record two weeks from now for some perspective I don't have yet is all. I should shut up about it now though...

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

the "communist in the family" lyric?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

well, it scans as potentially pretentious when you read about it. But it doesn't hang the song up at all, but then you're expecting total weirdness by that deep into the album anyway...

Nobody has talked much about the political edge to their music generally (in this thread, haven't read the Deep Cuts one recently) have they?

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone remember the terrible new age group Adiemus? The effects on the voice of Karin sometimes reminds me them (like in the chorus of "Like A Pen"). But it is good.

― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I've become so obsessed with We Share Our Mother's Health that its ridden roughshod over the rest of the album for me. I really need to listen to it all the way through again.

The title track sounded incredible at Canvas the other week though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I agree w/ The Lex. This album is just incredible and I keep going back to it. Ordered the 2xLP recently and am looking forward to receiving it. It's limited to 1000, so if anybody else wants it, get on it!!

― Harpal (harpal), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

where'd you get it? i NEED the vinyl.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

NOT FEELING. i think i'd like it quite a bit more if, as someone mentioned upthread, the vocals were less processed.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

philip - I managed to find it at sirendisc.com, which seems to be the most reliable place. It's pretty expensive because it's an import, but seeing as how you (as well as me) NEED it, $28.95 is nothing.

― Harpal (harpal), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

i think karin is less bjork on silent shout, more stina nordenstam - she has that same quality to her voice of being perfectly balanced right on the edge, as well as a certain...paranoia? isolation? i love the "communist in the family" lyric, it makes me think of spies and secrets and dysfunction, kind of like the overall mood of the album briefly shot into focus. "the fathers were football players the fathers were policemen what the mothers did i didn't know..." it all reminds me of festen a bit!

i like the processed vocal treatments throughout - on deep cuts karin's voice was kind of almost a gimmick, a bit "look i am a bit squeaky and a bit shrieky" - it works on each track in isolation (apart from the silly ones, there isn't a bad song on deep cuts, but i never want to hear them back-to-back!). whereas on silent shout karin's voice is so strung-out that she manages to convey this feeling of being genuinely disturbed.

i'm surprised no one's yet mentioned the quite astonishing similarity between 'like a pen' and the trentemoller remix of 'what else is there?' - it's basically the same backing track. and 'marble house' reminds me most of annie lennox's 'love song for a vampire'! (this album is COMPLETELY GOTH.)

my favourite song is, like matt, 'we share out mother's health', because it's mental.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

at first i really didn't care for the vocal treatments, thought they were a bit overdone. it was only listening over and over that i came to realize how they differ, subtly, from track to track, even when the intervals are the same (they love them some fourths). and i think they've been very judicious in their spatialization of the vocals as well, lending a different emotional edge to the vocals with every track.

and like lex and someone else upthread i don't really see karin's voice that much like björk's at all, certainly not a studied thing like other singers work. i suspect she could do a björk imitation if she wanted; to her credit she doesn't. don't know enough about nordenstam to say what similarities there might be there...

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Musically it seems to me like a deeply average dour electronica album such as might have been released on the Dindisc label in November 1980 to soundtrack rainy redundant steelworks. As usual with this group I am put off by the vocals, processed or not; don't know about Bjork or Nordenstam but her voice more readily conjures up the spectre of Hazel O'Connor and Cyndi Lauper, who have always been my two most unfavourite female singers. I quite liked track 8, which made me think of two lovers cowering under the blankets as protection against the apocalypse outside. But track 2 keeps stopping short of turning into "Billy Don't Be A Hero."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

the vocal treatments really help olof's vocals too - i was surprised at how many duets there are on the album. he's kind of like this very scary clown appearing in karin's nightmares, but at the same time her partner in crime. there's very much a feeling throughout of karin aligning herself with stuff which frightens her.

(which is i guess where the nordenstam connection lies - though nordenstam also has a 'weird' high-pitched voice, the similarity isn't so much in timbre as in the emotional situation they convey. the knife have actually remixed nordenstam's 'parliament square' and i have not heard it, which is incredibly frustrating for me.)

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

marcello, why "deeply average"? just curious.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

(alex, if someone hasn't done it by then, I can ysi it tonight)

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, marcello, i mentioned billy don't be a hero upthread!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

lex, i posted that track for you a while ago!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

are there many duets? i think Marble House is genuinely two vocalists, but i get the feeling everything else is all lady knife w processed voice in lower and high registers

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

(willem - offer much appreciated but i can't download from ysi, no home internet y'see; however if you could gmail it to me - alex dot macpherson at gmail - that would be much appreciated!)

i'm curious about marcello's opinion too. though i totally see the cyndi lauper thing.

xps - cutty, if you did thanks, but i wouldn't have been able to download it! i do remember it was on that jazzfunkgreats mp3 blog aaages ago, but in a weird format which i couldn't play.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh and Hazel o'connor roxor

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Z3M41SE8A84S1PJ65BTE768P1

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

i also thank you for that

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

actually i really like that baroque sounding PTR remix of "marble House" but apart from that i don't like. Marcello OTM.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

So no-one would, like, just happen to have a spare ticket for the gig at The Scal next Monday, would they?

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

The Scala.

Der!

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

I join those who're enthralled and addicted to this amazing album.
Forward!

― David Orton (scarlet), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Even on mp3 I've been so struck by the album's sound. It's an extraordinary machine so clinical, precise and polished with not a speck of real dirt to be found on it's steely surfaces and no cracks or cavities revealing the tangle of wires and circuitry within. You can tell they're into the big electrohouse producers. The production here is on the same level, minus the obsessive intricacies and barrage of minor events, build-ups. 'Silent Shout' sounds dated in a way because of the Ferry Corsten-esque arpeggiator, but 'Like A Pen' seemes to fit with Booka Shade et al if you ask me.

'Neverland' would be traumatic only Dreifer's robotised pronunciation of "ayyngrry meyyyyn" makes me grin. I stand by the alarming BeeGees comparison re 'The Captain' but still a good thing!

I do think about Propaganda at times, not for the vocals really but just for the comparable drama in this and something like 'Dr Mabuse'. They both emote euphoria as well as pain in this spooky, menacing fashion - of course the two are often hand in hand (I always felt that about 'Heartbeats'). But yes 'Silent Shout' has a narrower focus and palette, as rich as it sounds - almost like 'Human After All' in that respect.

In addition to other vocalists mentioned above, I also think of Emiliana Torrini, who never did anything this weird, but did similar things with her voice at times. And also Moa, who failed to make an impact some six years ago despite the 'Joy And Pain' single being great. But from there you can leap quite easily to Louise Rhodes and then look back at the distance of Dreifer vocally from there.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

the alarming BeeGees comparison re 'The Captain'

Makes me think of Kate Bush on "The Dreaming" (track) that one...

I'm still quite confused about this record. I really have no reason or prejudice that I can think of which would make me want to dismiss it (Arctic Monkeys, yes, there's a grudge there). Yet there's something just not quite there still.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

it's not necessarily a good introduction to The Knife. have you heard 'Deep Cuts' yet?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yet there's something just not quite there still.

It's miserable and angst-ridden which might be off-putting. 'Deep Cuts' has more of a sense of 'fun' about it on certain tracks and points. The closest 'Silent Shout' gets to this is 'Na Na Na' but the laughing is so hollow and sarcastic. This is the sort of thing I slag off a lot of indie-rock for (not being 'fun' enough) but I'm just captivated by the sound here really and find it all quite compelling and haunting.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I genuinely think Marble House is a bit of a dud, especially so in the track sequence.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Marble House is utterly majestic

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

(late on preview response) I previewed a bit of Deep Cuts the other day... not sure at all I'd enjoy that :|

The misery isn't off putting. I enjoy this record quite a bit, but it's simply not getting under my skin like I feel it should. Difficult to explain.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

for everything great about it (a hell of a lot) I just can't see it being a part of my future listening. I guess "interesting, but forgettable" is it. Not forgettable just yet, but soon.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

wonder where it is in the UK Album charts - #149?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

A cold, eerie and hugely impressive album I thought. I understand the antipathy to the vocals but I find Karin comes over as a dangerously psychotic Minnie Mouse, perfectly counter pointed by her brother’s endearingly gormless low-end growling. Musically it’s packed with sharp electro hooks, and strange elliptical lyrics that jump out at you:

“We came down from the North”

‘they said we had a communist in the family’

“Spending time with my family like .. the… Cor—le---one’s”

This was my introduction to the Knife. The earlier albums carry little of ‘Silent Shouts’ mix of menace and melancholy. “Mr Fingers in a goth mood” is a good description Snowballing - There’s a Ghost in my House.

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone really discovered whether the low vocals are karin or her brother?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Both. If by discovered, you mean listened to. I might be wrong.

I'm starting to find the lyrics fascinating. Is Forest Families sort of autobiographical, then?

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think I can hear the difference in timbre between their two voices even through all the effects. As I said, I might be completely wrong, though. I would give examples, but I can't remember the names of most of the tracks yet.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

for instance on "mother's health" that low vocal could still very well be karin.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you're right. But some of the low vocals are definitely her, and some are definitely not. Some others may be hard to tell.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I NEED FACTS HERE, NOT SPECULATION

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

"Pass This On" isn't very "fun," but I still like it better than anything on this album.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

sure it's fun! the falsetto choir backup vox?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

since ya'll refuse to afford me any type of privacy, i'm forced to come and sit next to some illegals at the library. it's nice. there is a senior citizens book club taking place a few feet away so there are a bunch of men and women eyeing me right now.

silent shout is the most compulsively listenable record i've heard this year.

― cheshire, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I agree,
It is great... Silent Shout is the best song on the album, I was hoping the rest would be just as good but they dont quite make it.
Overall though I would say Pass This On is their best work, love the steal drums!

www.eclex.bravehost.com

― E-clex, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, Pass This On is in the middle of Deep Cuts order of greatness for me

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

So, I bought the self-titled first album about a week ago, and have been wondering what people think of it, especially in terms of the progession from it to Deep Cuts to Silent Shout.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

okay so this isn't a valid first hand review, but i had some friends who saw them the other night here in sweden who were mad disappointed. it was their second show they had ever played live, ever, and were quite rusty. apparently they just don't really translate to the live setting. they hid behind curtains with visuals, played for 45 minutes, and didn't say a word to the crowd. besides the non-engagement of the crowd, they were apparently sloppy, a little bit boring, and just off-sounding. i guess that makes sense for a band that supposedly hates playing live.

― Daniel Gelfer (gelfball), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

I guess that's kind of disappointing, but since it's their second show ever and they don't enjoy playing live it's acceptable. It doesn't make Silent Shout any less incredible.

― Harpal (harpal), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i'm expecting exactly that at their London gig on Monday but still looking fwd to it lots.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

* / ***** ( 1 out of 5)

in Q magazine uk.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Would have to disagree with them, but then, who am I to question Q magazines musical authority

www.eclex.bravehost.com

― E-Clex, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

i wish bands who hate performing live would just not do it - i really hate the way the live show is seen as some sort of industry requirement. i don't see that the live experience would add anything to the knife's music, and especially not if they don't like it! make like k8 bush and just ignore that side of things.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

q: w/evs, though i would like to read the review so i can laugh at it! which lamer is responsible?

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

make like k8 bush and just ignore that side of things.

but Kate Bush live would rule so hard...it's a tragedy that she can't get that shit together...

the thing about The Knife live is that it will actually be nice to hear the songs loud in a large space with loads of people, and interesting to hear how the songs are sung live. the live version of Heartbeats i've heard is quite different to the original, building up slowly into something equally rousing, still sounds great.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

oh i would absolutely HATE it if kate ever played live! i really admire her refusal to do it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

it's the bands who LOVE playing live that you want to worry about.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

oh i do. i haven't seen ANY band live this year, apart from people i know! and only rarely have i felt the live experience to be better than the record...(electro sets excepted)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

only been to one gig this year, Goldfrapp, which was great (not just for the scantily clad dancers with animal heads)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Q magazine R Jealous of hipsters: Fischerspooner in Worst Albums Ever poll, Knife 1 Star review

[Meanwhile Q magazine rates Keane, Travis, Coldplay, Texas, Stereophonics, Chilli Peppers, Oasis, Snowpatrol etc.]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

it's the bands who LOVE playing live that you want to worry about.

This is truly one of the more ridiculous comments that I've ever read on this board.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

the best pop music is the kind you never want to hear more than once

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

the worst bands are the ones who make you feel the most dead

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

argh.

the ~~worst~~ best bands are the ones who make you feel the most dead

so much for trying to outdo steve78's statement for ridiculousness

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

fix your sarcasmeter Matthew

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Marble House video on youtube

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 6 April 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think I actually agree with Steve's comment about bands who like playing live. It does tend to make them put a foot on the monitor and rawk out in the most inappropriate way (cf Lamb and Ladytron. Ugh.)

The Knife on the other hand, I would love to see. (And it would answer Cutty's who's singing what questions above.)

I repeat my futile request for spare tickets for Monday. Anyone? I might just try and pick one up of a tout.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

of = off

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

at the live show here apparently the girl (too lazy to search her name) sung everything, just with heavy distortions/effects.

― Daniel Gelfer (gelfball), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

so, last night's gig. hard to collect thoughts on it really.

the atmosphere was great, a sold out Scala, young, cosmopolitan crowd with the hugest cheers reserved for 'We Share Our Mothers Health' and 'Heartbeats', with the former providing the real highlight on the night.

the duo wore what looked like lycra bodysuits which covered most of their faces and reflected UV. they stood level with each other on stage behind a thin, seethru cloth screen that covered the stage, onto which 'Knife-esque' visuals were projected from the back. they opened with an fantastic rework of 'Pass This On' melding it with arpeggiated synth patterns v similar to 'Silent Shout' and 'Forest Families', both of which were played later on. Surprisingly this was followed by 'The Captain', full intro intact.

Olof played an electronic drum machine with sticks, over the top of the rich backing track. Karin just sang over the tracks and over her own recorded vocals, often dancing in a quite endearing 'raver' way. For the 'male' parts of 'Marble House', a projection of a face to the right of Olof 'sang' attached to a contraption comprising of a skeletal arm turning the handle of a box on stage, like a large music box. odd. other creepy faces projected onto other areas provided a face for the extra voices on 'Silent Shout' and other tracks.

It was therefore difficult to tell just how much they were doing live. You could def. hear Karin's voice coming through often, strong and remarkably faithful to what you hear on record. Olof's playing seemed a little out of time to the backbeat at times, but only to eye not to ear. Difficult to tell which sounds he was triggering live as a result.

No 'Like A Pen' or 'Neverland' and very little from 'Deep Cuts' :(
But one track I didn't recognise - fast, bouncy 4/4 and relatively 'happy', couldn't make out the words but quite repetetive.

No encore and of course, disappointingly, no communication at all from the pair of them. Not even a 'thank you' in a disturbing pitched down voice (ala Air during their 10khz legend shows).

Lots to love and criticise really. Don't think they will endear themselves more to people live as opposed to just enchanting people on record so the question 'why bother' lingers. But on the other hand it's not often you get to hear 'We Share Our Mothers Health' at the kind of volume (ripples in my jeans, slight ear pain 30 seconds in) it warrants, so well worth it on that basis alone.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

sick

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

i took a couple of brief video clips on my camera but the sound is so horrendously distorted - no idea how to turn down the internal camera mic! might try and stick them on youtube anyway tho...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

That 4/4 track was probably Kino from their self-titled first album. Sounds something like freaked out carnival music meets j-pop.

Was fun last night, dark and short. 50 minutes, beats the 15 at the ICA last year, but yeah some more of Deep Cuts would have been good.

― rchinn (rchinn), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Konal for the report.

They're not playing here in The Netherlands :-( but the big grin and thumbs-up from the bloke behind the counter at my local record store when I picked up 'Silent Shout' suggests the worde is spreading. Remarkable album, gets better with each listen.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

wow why did nobody make me listen to this album! it's amazing!

also many people neglect to mention, it's pretty much trance/techno all the way but not as we know it. whoever said the original "Silent Shout" is much better than the remixes is totally otm too.

I wasn't mad on Deep Cuts though I did feel they had the complete package to be an amazing group, but maybe now I am sold cos I like the music a bit more this time around.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

I maintain that the title track really reminds of Sasha/Oakie 2000 so I'm surprised how well it seems to have gone down in clubs! But 'Like A Pen' has the real contemporary feel. Still no leak of the Rex T Davies mix of Marble House?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

sounding like Sasha 2000 is probably why it's going down so well!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Rex T Davies" this is an ilx meme mutation too far.

― Rex The Hen Fap (Alan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Just been listening to this over the weekend - am I the only person who things it sounds a lot like Dubnobasswithmyheadman or at least has a very similar feel/production to the that record?

― Kaliova (Kaliova), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

mother's health--is somebody(williams) gonna jack it to acid heaven or what? because i think it may already be perfect.

― friendship7, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-04/17.shtml#knife

U.S. date will be July 25 on Mute.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

hi can anyone tell me what the update on the track "F AS in Knife" is?? is it know a The Knife track??? it's the best i have heard this year! if it's not released i will cover it for my album ;-)

― martin101, Sunday, 30 April 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Read the thread - we answered that question

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 April 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Still not feeling this I'm afraid and I've tried, Lord knows I've tried :(

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 1 May 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

you're dead to me!

(not really)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 1 May 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

:((((

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

me either

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

First two songs are pretty rad; rest is sort of limited and "eh"... Sounds like a number of things from Air's 10,000 KHZ Legend only with much less musicality/ability (ie, "techno")... Waaaay too much between-song keyboard noodling, especially given the fact that the keyboardist can't play. Vocal effects are neat in a sort of early Ween-meets-Laurie Anderson way, but ridiculously overdone. Beats kind of suck, but work. Far from a classic. Sadly, it's still one of the more interesting things in pop music besides the Neko Case album to come along this year. Neverland is the jam.

― tronidlfkjsdflkjsdf, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

only with much less musicality/ability (ie, "techno")...

tronidlfkjsdflkjsdf, please knock off an easy and quick techno track and post to thread.

Not into the Knife though. If there was a dub of "Silent Shout" that'd do me.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Laurie Anderson! That's why I like this album sp much - it's basically O Superman the album.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Announced Knife performances so far (there will be a few more):

6th June - France, Paris, La Loco
14th July - Sweden, Arvikafestivalen
11th August - Germany, Sonnemondsterne

More info on:
www.theknife.net/thesilentshouttour.html

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

just out of curiosity, have you heard another "electronic" album than air's to compare this to?

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

"especially given the fact that the keyboardist can't play."
This is where you were supposed to stop reading, Philip.

― snowballing (snowballing), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

trentemoller remix of "we share our mother's health"

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

salivate-o-meter.jpg

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Booka Shade remix on the new twelve...

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

the trentemoller remix is interesting because he take the pitched down vocal part and pitches it up so you can hear it is really karin!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^^^^ spoken like a true foreign soulseeker

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

i knew it was her, i always knew, from the beginning, never doubted.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

result

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

can't wait!

is it karin on royksopp's "what else is there"?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

i knew it was her, i always knew, from the beginning, never doubted.
-- Konal Doddz
Me too! All this, "oh I like the guy's vocals" when it was clearly just the same female vocal pitched down was driving me up the wall.

― jimnaseum wastes the taxpayer's money, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

are there any male vocals in the knife? in one of their vids there are two girls singing, but i always thought they were a bloke and a bird.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

I#ve posted this on the DJ thread already, but I think Knife fans might like this:

A Haunted House Mix, for Knife fans (YSI only)
1. cocteau twins - blue bell knoll
2. golden boy feat miss kittin - rippin kittin
3. the knife - neverland
4. royksopp - what else is there? (trentemoller mix)
5. zeigest - f as in knife
6. cardigans - explode (remix)
7. thomas dolby - one of our submarines is missing
8. x-press 2 feat david byrne - lazy
9. fiery furnaces - single again
10. robots in disguise - you really got me
11. moimir papescu & the nihilists - mickey bar
12. the presets - down down down
13. the faint - agenda suicide

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

where's the ladytron, eh?

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

oops

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'm only playing wit you. that looks nice.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

That Trentemoller mix of "Mother's Health" is owning me right now. Sooooo good.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

5. zeigest - f as in knife

it's called 'tarheart' bro

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

duh

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh well excuuuuse me for not reading this whole entire thread every single day.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

moimir papescu & the nihilists do a very very good knife/zeigest (never know how they're supposed to be spelled) impression.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

cheers to gregory henry for suggesting that one btw.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

trentmoller starts so promising...the more it builds the less i like.

― le hague, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

when are they coming to NYC?????

― Jorge, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

never

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Embarassing public climb down #4258621321:

I finally listened to this through speakers last night. A totally different vibe when not in one's ear! It was on repeat 2 or 3 times, each one a pleasure, as I was working away.

That is all.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sold on that Trentemoller mix, putting a 4/4 behind it seems to remove part of the point of the song.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Kv_nol come to papa!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

PAPA! *Runs for a hug*

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling I sold that Portishead debut for similar reasons this record bothers me (maybe this is the connection). There's still a kind of emptiness about the whole enterprise. I dunno, I might get round to buying this after all, it's a strange record.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Personally, I think this is kind of a warm record. There's definitely quite a bit of humour in there (I'm thinking of 'One Hit' and 'We Share...'). Okay, so musically, it's a bit forbidding at first, but once you start to pick away at it, under all the layers of distortion on Karin's vocals, there's a big ol' grin on her face. I like it more and more with each listen and I think the Trentemoller remix is excellent too. Then again, I think that the sun shines out of Trentemoller's arse.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

me too

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

no us performances ever?

if this is true my aimpage template shall be forever in mourning

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

so the rex remix is nice, no doubt, but it sounds a little afraid to be anything other than 'heartbeats' pt.2. it's got the same super-clipped vocal manipulation tension building that 'heartbeats' did (the only kind rex can do?), but the chorus is appropriately hand-in-the-air, so i'm happy enough. even if the sorta eastern-european sounding melody makes the whole thing feel a bit like a latvian trance record...

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 13 May 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

it's "marblehouse" that gets the dog treatment, btw.

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 13 May 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Marble House. It sucks so much. I hope Rex takes a big electro dogshit on it >:X

But I'm definitely going to buy this now... even as an instrumental dub it would be ace, but the vocals don't really bother me (well, a bit heavy-handed in places but no biggie) so there's no point.

I still have a lot of problems with this record (and I think they are ALL the same ones I had/have with "Dummy"!) but I'll save it or my blog* from now on ffs.

*I don't have a blog.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 13 May 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all,

Here's my bit:

Firstly, I think Silent Shout is a masterpiece, and I say this having taken their entire back catalogue into account. Secondly, the outro to "Marble House" now makes me think of the outro to "Hotel California" by The Eagles. Even though I hate The Eagles, it seems to fit perfectly.

Secondly, to Dog Latin: (great tracklisting for your mix btw) Jay-Jay Johansson guests on Marble House, and he's male. Albeit very very camp.

Can't wait to see them in Paris. Woohoo! Woohoo again!

― Astonishing Sod-Ape, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

We Share Our Mothers Health video

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Astonishing Sod-Ape

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

oof. thats a great video. all vectory, bright and fresh like electro lends itself to so well (clean/minimal/big shapes), but disturbing with it.

I consistently underestimate this record, I really do. It doesn't feel like one of my favourite things this year. But it's still very high amongst the best things I've heard.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

The Knife's very special radio session will be broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on The Blue Room on 15th & 16th July...don't miss it!!
click here for details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/blueroom/index.shtml

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone know when the vinyl is being officially released in the states? I've passed it up a few times because it was like $40.00. Still one of the 5 best albums i've heard this year though...if i hafta wait much longer i'm going to splurge.

I asked at Mondo Kims upstairs in NYC the other day and the Oberstian sissy behind the counter was all dumbfounded and rude, repeating the name like I told a dirty limerick. "The KNIFE? That's the BAND name? (sigh). I don't think we have that." I bet it's sitting there somewhere but I can't be bothered to look. I patiently await martial law.

― Seven, Seven, Seven is my name. Seven come and seven go and seven still remain. , Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

I never get these stories about rude and condescending record store clerks! I can't recall a single time anybody behind the counter has ever reacted that way to me (and I do have some weeeird requests sometimes).

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone able to record the tracks from The Blue Room shows?

― Harpal (harpal), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

listening to this again today for the first time in a while, this is is probably my favorite release this year... maybe after fishscale.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 23 July 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

After reading the Pitchfork interview (posted today), I have a few comments:
a) I cannot fucking believe that she is married and has a kid.
b) Her comparison of Silent Shout to the self-titled album doesn't make much sense to me. I wanted more about that-- the s/t album only has three standout tracks.... but, I guess that there is a similarity in that both Silent Shout and the s/t have a darker tone than Deep Cuts. Otherwise? I don't hear much similarity.
c) I want to hear Olof's solo stuff quite a bit.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

What surprised me even more was Olaf's assertion that he doesn't sing at all on the album- I was certain the male-sounding voice on "Marble House" was him!

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

it's not--but i think it's also not her (despite claims that all vocals on the album are karin's, only pitch-shifted)--and now i can't remember who it is

― max (maxreax), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

American album is apparently printed at least; just mailed a copy.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

No more Knife for 5 years!

:'(

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

other vocalist is Jay Jay Johanson, innit?

― dh (djh), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

For anybody interested, AOL is streaming the album for free. After the massively-hyped-by-ILM dudder Burial, I was pleasantly surprised by this.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

AOL is streaming the album for

That is one of the CRAZIEST FUCKING THINGS I've read in a while. When you stream the album, do you get free emoticons and chat software with it?

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

About time this came out Stateside. The local record shop's been selling a copy of the import for $23. Still no takers.

I liked the interviews. The nod to Lynch wasn't really suprising. Sometimes I wonder how many musicians have been inspired by him. As a film director, he's probably more influencial on bands than most bands.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

This is my favourite album of the year, no question. I was a bit surprised that i didn't find it impenetrable at all, given all the comments to that effect.

It's Arctic Kate Bush innit. The Dreaming X Birds of Passage X Black Celebration

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

"one hit" wouldn't be out of place on the dreaming at all

and yeah, male vocalist on "marble house" = jay jay johanson

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

trees, they've been doing those streams for a while. Every once in a while there's good stuff on there. It's not all as mainstream as you'd think. I remember the last Opeth was on it.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

i guess that i am willfully oblivious to the aol culture. praise heavens.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

What surprised me even more was Olaf's assertion that he doesn't sing at all on the album- I was certain the male-sounding voice on "Marble House" was him!

Seek out Rex the Dog's remix of that song, he pitches the vocals up whilst they are being sung and you hear them 'transform' into Karen's - very cool!

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is the Ratatat remix of We Share Our Mothers Health any good?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

Seek out Rex the Dog's remix of that song, he pitches the vocals up whilst they are being sung and you hear them 'transform' into Karen's - very cool!

it's the Trentemoller mix that does this, not Rex's

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

you're right, my mistake. there's so many of them! ;-)

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

i was wondering why tim hadn't posted about the knife before!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

One of this week's freebies on the US Itunes store is "We Share Our Mother's Health."

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

the nods to charles burns' black hole are quite cool.

"The Dreaming X Birds of Passage X Black Celebration"

Tin Drum X A Secret Wish X "Distant Planet"?

― etc (esskay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

btw. Matt DC, you can check out the Ratatat remix here. it's a bit more sunny rather than glacial, plus there are casio-solos.

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished Black Hole. It took me two hours and was the best short read I've had in a while.

The Ratatat mix is...uh...wholly unappealing to me, for some reason. I think I don't like what was done with the vocals? It has a nice summery feel, though.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

love this album. seems they are truly everywhere

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think what is happening on the Trentemoller mix is that you actually have two vocal channels, one male, one female. Trentemoller pitches up the male vocal till it is high then kindof passes the baton to a down-pitched female vocal. It's all quite clever and impressive all the same.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Saw them live at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium last Thursday and they totally blew me away. Pure magic.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder .. should i YSI the live set i've got?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

let the eagle soar.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Swedish radio (P3) broadcast a gig from Göteborg in April of this year that's doing the rounds on blogs & stuff, is it that one? If it is or isn't: yes please!

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

that's the one. here it is for all you knife-hedz. it's a little murky. but then again so are they!

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2069CE624D032F68

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks!

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

why are ysi making you log in now?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

I thought ysi were banned on ILX.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

it'll be OK if we have to switch servers anyway ;)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

OMG you're talking about committing I crime! I'm telling...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

It was broadcast on a Swedish radio station so I imagine the copyright issues are as murky as the music. Mods can feel free to delete, obv

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I like the album a lot, but as mentioned somewhere above, it sounds a lot like someone taking a nap on their Juno-60 with the arpeggiator on. That's why I think it's the vocals that really sell the disc.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's fine to YSI non-commercially available recordings, btw.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

how many tracks on the album use arpeggiator tho? two?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's fine to YSI non-commercially available recordings, btw.
-- Matt DC (runmd...), August 23rd, 2006.

for seriously?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Whoah, thanks so much for that ysi!

― Gerard (Gerard), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.vpro.nl/img.db?29687932

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.stubru.be/fotoalbums/pp06_do_live/slides/the-knife-001.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet! I love that their shows are such a multimedia experience. If only they'd bring it a little closer to home....

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

This album is easily one of my favorite releases of 2006 but those photos are not promising. Looks like "Fischerspooner Presents ... A Tribute to the Blue Man Group."

― Milius (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

LOL! Don't worry, it's a whole audiovisual thing with loads of projections, you'll barely notice the two of them.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Just bought this album yesterday. Ripped it, started listening on my computer, wasn't feeling it at all. Then when I had trouble sleeping and my usual insomnia cure (clock radio not-quite-tuned into local college radio station for warm static-washed house music goodness) didn't work, I figured I'd listen to the CD in the dark on my 'good' headphones (rarely used for listening to music 'cuz they're not too portable and I prefer speakers when I'm at home).

Wow. Just totally wonderful. The unsettling vocals, huge consciousness-filling drums, the way the arpeggios in "Silent Shout" played chicken with me (I won, btw; they veered away just before steamrolling my pretty little head)... I might have to do this more often.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think the production on this is excellent actually. Arpeggiators do not equal lazy!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I'm in agreement. at least when they use the arpeggiator they're constantly switching up not only the chords but also the pattern, to keep things interesting. on "Silent Shout", in particular, the changes are very interesting and (to me, at least, after a half-dozen listens) unpredictable.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going to just buy tickets rather than take a chance on missing this.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Why have I not seen the show at Kentish Town Forum on October 14 mentioned elsewhere? Has it just been announced?

― caek (caek), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

are tickets still available caek? I might go for my brithday!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. I just bought four from Ticketmaster.

― caek (caek), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

what cost? sorry, i can't be bothered to look myself.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else going to the LA show? I bought my tickets within seconds of seeing the news on PF - I fully expect this to be the best show I see this year apart from Daft Punk @ Coachella. Could not be more excited.

oh, and just to stay on topic: Silent Shout is still pretty easily the best thing I've heard this year (even without "F As In Knife"). It also got me going back to investigate Deep Cuts, which turned out to be yet another serious treat I'd avoided due to sheer idiocy.

THE KNIFE IN '06

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

I've been listening to the first eponymous album a bit more lately. 'Bird' and 'I Take Time' esp.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Forum show is £15 (+ the usual Ticketmaster idiot tax of £2.50 and £5 postage).

― caek (caek), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

so tempted! i am going to amsterdam that month with g/f for our birthdays and that my much publicised eye-on-finances sitch may cause a problem though.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

the scala show was pretty spectacular. sadly i'm on my way to australia on 14 oct so can't go to the forum. boo.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

'I Take Time' & 'Neon' are the only reasons to own the eponymous album, I think.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Damn these European acts and their lack of touring to Australia. I love this band more each day, but the love is unrequited.

― Catherine Ryan (and so this is catherine), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Group, rather. Excuse my rockist faux pas!

― Catherine Ryan (and so this is catherine), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

12TH OCTOBER - PARIS, LA CIGALE

The venue:
http://www.lacigale.fr/

Tickets at Fnac:
http://www.fnacspectacles.com/recherche/rechercheRapide.do?search=the+knife&categorie=-7&okSearchButton=OK

English spoken ticket hotline: +33 141 57 32 28

(more dates to follow, according to the newsletter.)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

catherine otm, really. pls come to melbourne sometime, knives!

― genital hyphys (haitch), Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else going to the LA show?

Yep. $70.05 for two tickets, but it's so gonna be worth it.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 28 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Fischerspooner Presents ... A Tribute to the Blue Man Group."

This is really funny, as the cute drummer from Fischerspooner tour was one of the original member or creative director from bluemangroup

― Arnault (arc73hk), Monday, 28 August 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Although this is quite interesting, I have to say that the only song I can honestly say I ENJOY is "Silent Shout."

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

God, I keep listening to that live version of "Kino" that surfaced over and over and over again. These live versions are turning out to be quite the reliably devastating treat.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Come to Dublin Knife please! I will buy you a pony. A pony of DOOM.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Just picked up a The Knife record in Tower Records. It seems to be demos and early tracks from '99 on. It was released in 2006. It has "Kino" on it. Rerelease? Some tracks from a film soundtrack as well.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Just a reissue of their first full album, called "The Knife"

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

That film soundtrack hasn't been released outside of Scandinavia at the moment. It's called Hannah Med H.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah picked up the re-issue as it has the tracks from the soundtrack included. The whole album has grown on me a lot more recently.

Like A Pen video now up.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Are they intending on releasing EVERY song on this album as a single? They're releasing them at a rate of knots too. They could do worse than re-release Heartbeats and definitely (maybe the ironically-titled) "One Hit".

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

suspect 'Like A Pen' will be the last. try as they might (and they appear to be trying a lot more than i expected or imagined they would be willing to) they will never even break the top 100. not that it really matters i guess.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

As long as they keep putting out singles including live tracks as b-sides, I fully support them releasing a bajillion singles.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

the 'like a pen' rmxes are v good.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

From their website: "Fourth and last swedish single release from the Silent Shout album on September the 27th. The track will be hacked by the great Thomas Schumacher, the rapidly emerging Heartthrob of Richie Hawtin’s Minus Records, and a new mix for the dancefloor from The Knife's old time mixing man Christoffer Berg."

Guess that means that's the last of the singles from Silent Shout.

p.s. I have two tickets in hand (in Oxford) for their Paris show on October 12th if anyone can't use the French booking site or feels like saving EUR10 or so on booking fee and international signed for delivery from France. Yours for face value (EUR22). No longer needed as I've managed to get tickets for the London gig. Email me if you're interested.

― caek (caek), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

dammit, i was hoping for a "forest familes" remix package....

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

definitely. forest families best track on the album and so very ready for remodelling.

― dh (djh), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

the Scala & Kolacny Bros. Choral Version of 'Heartbeats' is up at:
http://www. fluokids.blogspot.com

more about scala & kolacny bros.:
http://www.kolacny.com/

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 23 September 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

sorry bout fluokids ya get the idea ise drunk

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 23 September 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually surprised that no one has mentioned anything about "We Share Our Mother's Health" sounding very much like it's straight out of Frquencies era LFO. I got that sentiment to the extent where I actually popped in frequencies right after listenting to that song.

― Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

aw shit, the nyc late show sold out.

would you still get tickets to the early one?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

There are two Rex The Dog remixes of Marble House out there and I'm confused. The first is just 3,09 and has all the expected Rex blips and cowbelly fx. The second is 6,36 and is a lot more drawn-out than the other. This second one is the one on the single. It's not as good as the shorter one. But what is this shorter one?? Is it a remix by someone else or a great radio edit of the long Rex one?

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

The long one is indeed on the single, the short one is the "Rex The Dog SK-1 remix" that's on a compilation called "Dance Express 669D" - I haven't found any info about that one as of yet, googling it only turns up Russian warez sites.

SK-1 is also an alias of Dabrye/Tadd Mullinix though, could he have remixed the Rex The Dog Remix? (or maybe he IS rex the dog! wooo!)
http://www.discogs.com/artist/SK-1
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Dabrye
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tadd+Mullinix

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Why do some people still act like Rex the Dog's identity is a mystery? :'(

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I was just kidding :-)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

How do I shot irony?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

This is probably my favourite album of the year. Despite the fact that I was pretty dismissive of it earlier in the thread and bearing in mind that I've not heard the new Ornette Coleman shit yet.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

the SK-1 is a casio sampler, so i'm guessing it has nothing to do w/ the mullinix alias here.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

the SK-1 is a casio sampler

Thanks, I didn't know!

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks a lot, StanM. So the 3min version is a remix of Rex's remix? Is there any official mention of this anywhere? Also, have you heard it yet? I'll send it over to you if you like.

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I found it after you mentioned it, but I haven't found any official mention yet - it isn't on The Knife's discogs.com list, nor is it mentioned on Rex The Dog's page there.

here it looks like it's a radio edit, but the only radio edit on the various versions of the Marble House single is the original version, not the remix.

Still no clear answer, at the moment. (I think we can ignore that Dance Express compilation I found it on, it just doesn't look official at all)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I really like the Thomas Schumacher remix of "Like A Pen" (unsurprisingly it sounds very Bodziny). Much more than the Heartthrob one.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

T H E K N I F E N E W S

The Knife's new DVD: "Silent Shout - An Audio Visual Experience" is to be released on Rabid Records the 8th of November.

The show was filmed the 12th of April in the band's hometown Gothenburg, Sweden. Just like the live show, the DVD uses the finest surround sound technology.

The DVD also includes the band's full videography, 11 music videos, from "N.Y. Hotel" to "Like A Pen" and a previously unreleased video for "Marble House" by Chris Hopewell.

Preorders should reach your mailbox on the release date:
https://www.bengans.se/popup/knife_dvd/popup_mall_se.asp

Read more and have a look:
http://www.theknife.net

The Knife's tour is having its Grande Finale in the US, four already sold out shows:

1st November, New York, Webster Hall, at 18:00 & 22:00
3rd November, San Fransisco, Mezzanine
4th November, Los Angeles, El Rey Theater

After that The Knife will dig themselves a cosy den in the warm scandinavian snow.
Best,
Frau Rabid

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theknife.net/images/covers/rabiddvd035_200.jpg

(it's that show that had been on Swedish radio in April, by the way)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

...for some reason that cover fills me with the urge to ROCK OUT FOR SATAN. Possibly the giant laser pentacle.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

the 'Marble House' video is pretty cool. i don't really like any of their others.

― ;_; (blueski), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Really? I love the one for "Pass This On".

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

what's the deal with that one anyway?

― ;_; (blueski), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

from here, director Johan Renck explains:

"Pass This On" is one of my favorite videos of 2003. How did the concept with Rickard Engfors come about? Where was it filmed?

Glad you like it, I like it very much my self. The idea of Rickard came from the band (Karin [Dreijer] saw him in a magazine and wanted him to perform it). The concept just came up as I was setting the thing up (this was definitely a one-man-band-shoot...). I used to be a performing artist, and I always felt as if the audience hated me (which they probably did). Thus I liked the idea of creating that tension between performer/audience. I shoot it in a dingy suburb of Stockholm and literally casted it on the street in the morning of the shoot. If you look carefully you will see that the cast changes, as we had to get new people in as people became bored and left... I could only pay them five quid and coffee..."

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

The "Like a Pen" video is pretty fantastic...

Any word of a US release on Mute?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Just found out that Deep Cuts was released as a 2xLP last month on Brille. Great news for me, at least. Ordered that DVD as well.

― Harpal (harpal), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

The DVD arrived in the mail today and the live show is great: nice and dark and stereo/5.1/DTS and I can't wait until they tour again.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

no-one ever said anything about the monolithic slab of darkness that is the radioslave mix of '...mothers health'. is it because there's only about three seconds of karin on it?

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

That PTR remix is awesome, there's something really creepy about it.

There's a great Stephan Bodzin mix of Like A Pen doing the rounds that essentially turns it into Sky Was Pink. Lovely.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

did you see them in kentish town, stan?

i was pretty meh on it.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

No, I saw them at the Pukkelpop festival (in August) - I'm Belgian.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

i was pretty meh on it.

but what did you want from them?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno, i probably just don't like them that much rly. they're OK n'all but nothing special. i liked the venue.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I think discovering them like that (I knew a couple of their singles, vaguely), in between hundreds of other bands and DJs at a festival probably helped - they were so refreshingly different.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

it's probably better on dvd? or actually, it'd be better if they weren't present, and it was just an abstract film/animation/light show.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I would have checked them out had they only played one headlining show in a venue somewhere, but at a festival it was just the thing I needed to be surprised/blown away, I guess. ("what's next in that tent there, do we want to check it out? Ok, let's have a look.")

The DVD is just as mysterious/vague as the live show - the projections on the screen in front of the stage are there, but they're not clearly visible all the time. They're present, yeah, but they look and move quite strangely, so they're part of the mystery.

And yes of course this is all up-their-own-arse-arty-farty-BS, when you think about it too much, but for me, it works.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

They're present -> the band, I mean.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I wish they'd release an album (or a double album) of remixes.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

is that another way of saying 'i wish they were better'?

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

no, it's a way of saying "I love them and I love all these hard-to-find remixes" that people keep talking about.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hard to find on soulseek?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think they're the best live act I've seen this year. Ah well, there's no accounting for taste.

http://www.rollins.edu/finance/accounting/Images/AccountingPic.jpg

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hard to find on soulseek?

everything seems to be hard to find on soulseek these days. still, it would be nice to have all these, no? can someone come up with a definitive list? there are so many.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think the only ones that aren't easy to find are probably white labels. So hoping for a release of them all together is probably walking before you run type thing.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Or running before you walk even.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

nothing is hard to find on slsk

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

some things are but not things like this.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

it's there and simple to find. still gutted Uncut neglected this band in their year end list

― zippezappy (doomed), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

The Live show at The Forum is the best gig I've seen this year - shame about the arseholes in the crowd though - really reminded me why I rarely come up to London to see gigs unless I have no choice.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Saturday, 11 November 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Agree with you Chewshabadoo. Had some cretin prattling a lot of shite beside me at that gig. Never shut his mouth nor, it appeared, had any interest in The Knife.

On a more positive note - this is brilliant. Heartbeats Live...
http://download.yousendit.com/2850E8613AAC9A04

This isnt from the DVD it taped from Swedish TV, so doesnt breach any copyright. So there.

― Griff Sheridan (Griff Sheridan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

i really enjoyed the forum gig - felt a bit ill though so wasn't as into it as i should have been.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

FYI: the clip Griff just posted (thanks!) is quite different from what's on the DVD: there's a LOT more of the crowd on screen here. On the DVD, all you see from the crowd is a couple of arms in the air every now and then.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else on here got the DVD? Its just the two people I know who have it (one of them being me), noticed a fault during the Like a Pen video. ie. it stopped dead after a minute and wouldnt play the rest of the vid. That happening to anyone else?

― Griff Sheridan (Griff Sheridan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yep! And also during Like A Pen! Damn.

(I figured it was the DVD drive in my PC)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 11 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I mailed the contact address on their site about this. At least they'll know now.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 11 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

The other one I ordered (there were two, one for myself and one for a friend) doesn't have the problem.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 11 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't received it yet, but I am in the US. Got an e-mail that it was posted on the 6th. Hope mine doesn't have the fault.

― Harpal (harpal), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

As for the Silent Shout remixes, they are on (as far as I know):
Silent Shout 12"
Marble House 12"
Like A Pen 7"
Like A Pen 12"
We Share Our Mothers Health 7"
We Share Our Mothers Health 12"

Silent Shout + WSOMH 12"s were released in the US. The Marble House 12" was only released in Germany, I believe, and is the hardest to find at the moment. The 7"s might have been UK only.

― Harpal (harpal), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone care to click on each of these and list the remixes?

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=32503&from=program_ao

Beneath the picture of Cassie there is a link called "Musikbyråns 10 års jubileum". Click on that, forward 3 hours and 3 minutes into the show and you can watch The Knife perform 3 songs from a concert they did in Lund in southern Sweden this year. It looks really amazing.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 13 November 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Watch out for bandwidth though: that wmv stream is almost 2 Gb big.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

'Kino' sounds particularly good on that video clip. And I see they also featured Robyn earlier in the programme.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, there's a crazy amount of good stuff on there. I really liked the clip(3:49:40 hours into the show) where Robyn performs Saul Williams' List of Demands together with Jenny Wilson(a friend of the Knife, featured on Deep Cuts).

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've just received a reply concerning the possible production error on some of the DVD's:

We're looking into this, and I will let you know what the outcome is. Of course, if you have a defective DVD it should be returned. but I will let you know,

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone care to click on each of these and list the remixes?

Sure, why not? This is not counting radio edits:

Not counting radio edits.

non-album tracks/b-sides:
I Live in a Tree
Manhood
Nedsvärtning (13-minute track to accompany a Peter Eccher project, released as a cdsingle)
Afraid of You
High School Poem

remixes:
Got 2 Let U (Paul Källman remix)
Handy-Man (extended mix)
Handy-Man (Revl9n remix)
Handy-Man (Tobias von Hofsten remix)
Handy-Man (FPU remix)
I Just Had to Die (Paul Källman remix)
You Take My Breath Away (Puppetmasters remix)
You Take My Breath Away (Emmon remix)
Heartbeats (Style of Eye remix)
Heartbeats (Rex the Dog remix)
Heartbeats (The Knife Techno Remix)
Pass This On (Dahlbäck and Dahlbäck mix)
Pass This On (M.A.N.D.Y. Knifer mix)
Pass This On (Live)
Pass This On (M.A.N.D.Y. Instrumental)
You Take My Breath Away (Manhattan Clique/MHC remix)
You Take My Breath Away (Mylo remix)
Like a Pen (Club Mix by Christoffer Berg)
Like a Pen (Club Mix by Christoffer Berg, 12" version)
Like a Pen (Demo version)
Like a Pen (Heartthrob remix)
Like a Pen (Thomas Schumacher dub)
Like a Pen (Heartthrob dub)
Marble House (Rex the Dog remix)
Marble House (Booka Shade's Polar Light Dub)
Marble House (Booka Shade remix)
Marble House (Planningtorock/PTR remix)
Silent Shout (Williams Acidic Circuits remix)
Silent Shout (Troy Pierce Barado en Locombia mix)
Silent Shout (Shinedoe remix)
We Share Our Mothers' Health (Trentemøller remix)
Kino (Live)
We Share Our Mothers' Health (Ratatat remix)
We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Slave's Secret Base remix)

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Holy crap! 1000 x thanks! (I didn't have the courage)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

The presenter of that "Musikbyråns 10 års jubileum" special:

http://www.pauldavidson.net/wp-content/themes/wfme/images/entries/ericmask.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

There's a great Stephan Bodzin mix of Like A Pen doing the rounds that essentially turns it into Sky Was Pink. Lovely.

Jeezum crow do I ever want to hear this.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's actually a Thomas Schumacher mix of "Like A Pen". I think the Knife's own "club mix" is the best re-working but I do like the Schumacher, it just sounds like all the other zillion Bodzin tracks!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'd hate it if someone emailed me these!!

Heartbeats (The Knife Techno Remix)
Like a Pen (Thomas Schumacher dub)
Silent Shout (Williams Acidic Circuits remix)
Silent Shout (Troy Pierce Barado en Locombia mix)
We Share Our Mothers' Health (Ratatat remix)

― Griff Sheridan (Griff Sheridan), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

okay we won't then!!

(don't have them, it was an open goal)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the three tracks by The Knife on that "Musikbyråns 10 års jubileum" special, Kino, Heartbeats and Silent Shout, live in Lund, Sweden, March 31st.

http://rapidshare.com/files/3227409/061020mb10_theknife.wmv

From the stream that was linked to a couple of posts ago, this is a 92.1 WMV (windows media) file, 15 minutes. Not the same quality of the original stream, but very nearly as good.

It's quite different from the DVD footage, this focuses on the stage and the audience, the DVD contains a lot more of the projections and no audience on screen.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

92.1 Mb WMV

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks. Funnily enough I was going to ask for someone to do this. My DVD just arrived, going to go watch now!

― Harpal (harpal), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

The Live show at The Forum is the best gig I've seen this year - shame about the arseholes in the crowd though

yeah possibly that fucked it up for me too, but their thing is so... fragile that it kind of demands art-gallery reverence which you aren't going to get outside of an... art gallery. the 'up' numbers were awkwardly placed; you can't really dance and then not halfway through...

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

why were people in the crowd arseholes?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Actually the Stephen Bodzin and Thomas Schumacher remixes of "Like A Pen" are separate and different remixes. The Bodzin is a demo, hasn't been released yet. Both just sound like Bodzin tracks, the Schumacher is closer to the typical Bodzin sound a la Bodzin/Romboy's "Miranda" (but is one of the best in this style), while the Bodzin is more melodramatic/epic.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

why were people in the crowd arseholes?
-- 2 american 4 u (n...), November 14th, 2006.

well, you know i'm a real people person right...?

i dunno, they were moving around too much.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

and all that smiling and singing along together...THEY MAKE ME SICK.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

anyone who knows my g/f knows that singing along to the knife is a doomed enterprise.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

uh...okay

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

What's the difference between the two Booka remixes of Marble House? The one I have is quite dark and minimal, and occasionally threads the "I wanted to see right through from the other side" line through it. Am I right in assuming that's the dub?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

is that first track in the video up there Kino? (it sounds really familiar)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Blogwash
Taynted Love
On the Decemberists' faux-wordly false humility

by Chris Ott
November 10th, 2006 1:36 PM Village Voice

"Inside, dozens of trend-spotting writers, bloggers, and shills are buzzing about the best CMJ performances of 2006, particularly the Knife, a Depeche Mode throwback whose sadly asexual black-lit glow-stick pantomime at Webster Hall was so impenetrable it just had to be art. "

Former Pitchfork writer's aside about the Knife in his Decemberists critique.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Nothing about the DELUXE EDITION?

I must say that I enjoy being able to listen to the revamped versions of "Heartbeats," "Pass This On," and "You Make Me Like Charity" in my car. The video's not bad, either. It doesn't quite take me back to actually being there at the show (the LA one), but it's good enough. Not sure why the "When I Found The Knife (Again)" video was omitted...

― naus, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

i like that live version of 'Pass This On' - good reverb on the 'steel drums'

― blueski, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

I would probably take the live CD over any other album they've put out. Part of me thinks they peaked as a band with the live version of "Heartbeats"

― jamescobo, Thursday, 26 July 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

gonna pick up the deluxe edition this week, i think. love this album.

― omar little, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

this album is still good guyz

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

except for "the captain"

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

which isn't bad it's just too long and messes up the flow

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:54 (seventeen years ago)

the captain is amazing!!

― gff, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

― omar little, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o-77mN06_4

good shit

― gff, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

the last 3 mins or so are great, the first 3 mins it's like "..."

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

and it's between two awesome songs so it kind of feels like filler

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

just turn it up really loud

― gff, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

without the first three minutes the last three minutes are way less awesome

― max, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

also it destroys when they play it "live"

― max, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

i look like an asshole for using those quotation marks dont it

― max, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

dont i

― max, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

might as well hit five posts in a row

― max, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

my fave song is "from off to on" though, no one ever really talks about that one

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

i was gonna go see them live once but I didn't

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

i regret it now

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

but the show was probably 21+ anyway so :-\

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

man the syn-tom rolls are just awesome

― gff, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

i feel like a chump because i'm only getting into this now but it's awesome.

― LaMonte, Saturday, 16 February 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

Still one of the very best of '06

― stephen, Saturday, 16 February 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

i have no recollection of distributing this to ILX

― cutty, Sunday, 17 February 2008 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

3 years ago, wtf?

― cutty, Sunday, 17 February 2008 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

oh never mind, 2

― cutty, Sunday, 17 February 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

if we ever get round to replacing the old and rubbish canon then the song 'silent shout' would be in the newie. not that we wil cos canons are rubbish obv.

― or something, Sunday, 17 February 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

heartbeats is in the canon, actually. but silent shout is a still a masterpiece.

― cutty, Sunday, 17 February 2008 00:29 (seventeen years ago)

the album as a whole, that is

― cutty, Sunday, 17 February 2008 00:29 (seventeen years ago)

The live album (or audio CD from the concert film, or whatever you want to call it) is fantastic too. Especially the super stripped-down live "Heartbeats."

― Telephone thing, Sunday, 17 February 2008 02:15 (seventeen years ago)

Silent Shout (the song) is the sound of God pissing sugar in my ears.

― Cosmo Vitelli, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:04 (seventeen years ago)

I can only be disappointed by their next album.

― Cosmo Vitelli, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:05 (seventeen years ago)

Silent Shout is my favorite song of the decade, probably. It's certainly the "Blue Monday" of this decade. Really strange reading the middling first impressions of it upthread.

― bendy, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:14 (seventeen years ago)

I can only be disappointed by their next album.

Are they still on a break?

― Gukbe, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:44 (seventeen years ago)

the fact that i love this makes me doubt my pitchfork dismissiveness. like, if their top album of 2006 is great maybe vampire weekend and clap you hands oh yeah are too?

― LaMonte, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

One of the best discs of the decade, so far, I think. It certainly nails its creepy, electo-goth-y, dance-y aesthetic as well as any album has in a long time.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 17 February 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)

whatever happened to zeigeist?? i still like the fake knife track "f is for knife" aka "tar heart" better than anything else on the album

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 February 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

the fact that i love this makes me doubt my pitchfork dismissiveness. like, if their top album of 2006 is great maybe vampire weekend and clap you hands oh yeah are too?
-- LaMonte, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:47 (11 hours ago) Link

what are you, 13?

― cutty, Sunday, 17 February 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

LOL. Hadn't seen you around lately. Welcome back, counselor.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

;)

― cutty, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

the fact that i love this makes me doubt my pitchfork dismissiveness. like, if their top album of 2006 is great maybe vampire weekend and clap you hands oh yeah are too?
-- LaMonte, Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

RONG

The Knife was the type of "Pfork approved album" that got a solid review early in 2006, then grew on everyone to pull forward and rightfully (in my opinion) snag the album of the year award. I can think of a few others that would've been great in that spot, but Silent Shout is a solid choice.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Vampire Weekend are the sort of overhyped acts that receive glowing reviews based entirely on hype, then go on to rightfully (also, in my opinion) struggle to place in the year-end top 50. CYHSY did it with their second album, hopefully Vampire Weekend will do the same.

― stephen, Sunday, 17 February 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

why is my ilm stuck on 2003

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 February 2008 22:27 (seventeen years ago)

SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE: 60% OF THE TIME, PITCHFORK IS RIGHT "EVERY TIME."

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 17 February 2008 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

I've read reviews claiming this was scary, or something like that. There's two tracks on this that kind of qualify as eerie. Hours ago I was listening to this while driving through Miami Lakes. The instrumental "Na Na Na" gave the most serene neighborhoods a Lynchian ominousness. And another instrumental, "The Captain", made a junior baseball game look so... alien.

The rest of the record sounds like I should be listening to it in the... Goth chic part of Miami Beach. I don't see the big deal.

I'll see what happens in a week.

― dreamsonvhs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 02:44 (seventeen years ago)

The rest of the record sounds like I should be listening to it in the... Goth chic part of Miami Beach.

Where, exactly, is the Goth chic part of Miami Beach? Why because it sound interesting.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 19 March 2008 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

but neither of those songs are instrumentals!

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 02:54 (seventeen years ago)

"Still Light" has an eerie Another Green World quality to it, too. It really sounds so serene and surreal. Obviously I prefer the non-dance tracks.

I should probably listen to this outdoors and with headphones. Listening to it while staring at my monitor isn't interesting at all.

My problem with Silent Shout, the album, is that it's a combination of mostly familiar, albeit "dark", electronica sounds, and pseudo-evil vocals.

― dreamsonvhs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

Daniel, Esq: I have no clue.

Telephone thing: I remember them as such though.

― dreamsonvhs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:04 (seventeen years ago)

C/D Miami Beach goth chic

― brightscreamer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:09 (seventeen years ago)

it's a combination of mostly familiar, albeit "dark", electronica sounds, and pseudo-evil vocals

wait how is this a problem?

― blueski, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 13:09 (seventeen years ago)

My girlfriend loves this album, but I can't get into it myself. I find it all a bit shrill and grating.

― chap, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 13:27 (seventeen years ago)

blueski: It isn't actually dark.

― dreamsonvhs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

play it next to hearbeats then tell me its not dark. the whole album is claustrophobic and dark.

― cutty, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

dark like a forest

― blueski, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

this album is so great, can't get over it

and it is very dark. as a matter of fact, i don't think there is a bright spot anywhere on the album. the oppressive mood doesn't let up much. the vocals have a lot to do with that, i think, but then again most of the sounds are paranoid or melancholic on their own.

― later arpeggiator, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

this is probably the only pitchfork "consensus pick" album that is actually totally awesome instead of just "sort of okay" (cf arcade fire, tv on the radio, et al)

― omar little, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

Okay so I really like it now.

― dreamsonvhs, Thursday, 27 March 2008 06:44 (seventeen years ago)

This album is so obviously great on so many levels, when I listen to it it makes me feel sorry for other music.

― Tim F, Thursday, 27 March 2008 08:30 (seventeen years ago)

PS. Is it wrong of me to want to punch people who complain about "familiar" electronica sounds on records like these?

I've read so many dismissals like this: 'take away the weird vocals and you're just left with electro/house/techno music!'

Is this meant to provoke shocked gasps of recognition or something?

― Tim F, Thursday, 27 March 2008 08:32 (seventeen years ago)

take away the weird vocals and you're just left with electro/house/techno music!'

IVE BEEN HAD!!

― max, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

take away the electro/house/techno and what are you left with then?

― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

Silent Shout is the worst Knife album

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

but it's EDGY don't you see?! Ooh. Teh pain.

no seriously, you might be right. Not that I dislike the record, but you get a lot more economical mileage out of Deep Cuts, just more hooks and fun shit per minute.

― kenan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

but the first three or four tracks and also "One Hit" are like, phwoah my god this is awesome.

― kenan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

but some of us don't like "hooks and fun shit" as much as what silent shout foregrounds. just sayin'!

― pshrbrn, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

That doesn't mean it's any fucking good. It's fucking crap

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

fucking wrong

― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

silent shout has hooks, there are so many strangely catchy parts that pop up in my memory all the time, just these odd little idiosyncrasies that don't really remind me of any other album i can think of. deep cuts has heartbeats, everything else i've forgotten about. but then again, i guess it took awhile for the really catchy parts to surface on silent shout, maybe deep cuts is like that too and i haven't given it enough chances? somehow i doubt it, deep cuts just seems thin and flimsy in comparison.

― later arpeggiator, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

i love all three albums (why would you like only 1 or 2? WEIRD) but Deep Cuts is a bit more gimmicky or jokey with things like 'The Cop' and 'Hanin Out' and 'The Knife' is just a bit rough with great ideas not quite as fleshed out as they could be - or I just don't like as many tracks on it as much as I love SS pretty much all the way thru.

― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

mmmkay catsup, thanks for the insight.

― pshrbrn, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

Deep cuts has She's Having a Baby which is good, and Heartbeats which is incredible but I don't really remember anything else. Silent shout is pretty good all the way through and the singles are all brilliant. From the first one Kino and Parade are pretty good.

― I know, right?, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

Deep Cuts has "Pass This On"!

― Telephone thing, Thursday, 27 March 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)

yes it does

― I know, right?, Thursday, 27 March 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

20jazzfunkgreatsblog had a live version of "Pass This On" back in 2006 (just before the album came out I think?) which was clearly a blueprint for "Silent Shout" (the track) - terrific stuff.

― willem, Thursday, 27 March 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

hurrah for Robyn finally (re?) releasing the Knife-backed single

― Alan, Sunday, 20 April 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

never even realised it was them tho it's so obvious UH

― blueski, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

take away the weird vocals and you're just left with electro/house/techno music!'

IVE BEEN HAD!!

-- max, Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:22 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

hahahahaha

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

this album is still so so so so good

― poortheatre, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

take away the weird vocals and you're just left with electro/house/techno music!'
IVE BEEN HAD!!
-- max, Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:22 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

i LOL'ed at this so hard too

― stephen, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMfVFAK5Qc

― Turangalila, Thursday, 8 May 2008 07:12 (seventeen years ago)

A+

― blueski, Thursday, 8 May 2008 10:37 (seventeen years ago)

God, the comments thread! It BURNS!

― Telephone thing, Friday, 9 May 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

i love this girl's vocals

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 06:59 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

One of my new favorite groups. I'm enjoying DEEP CUTS as well. My favorite song being PASS THIS ON. "Heartbeats" is cool, but it doesn't really compare to PTO.

DEEP CUTS = Porno flick music

― dreamsonvhs, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 06:42 (seventeen years ago)

Strange, just listened this today - I haven't done such a thing for long, long months. And it's still great.

― zeus, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 11:28 (seventeen years ago)

i don't know if i could possibly bear to hear anything by the knife ever again. they're great and all, but glor i think i just listened to them too any times. that girlie's voice is o distinctive that when it crops up on other records (dEUS album being the last), I immediately know it's her and get zooped back to 2006.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:09 (seventeen years ago)

pass this on is incredible

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:28 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.myspace.com/feverray
Fever Ray = Solo project from Karin Andersson
The one track on the myspace isn't much to go on though

― Number None, Friday, 12 December 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

more, give me more

― willem, Friday, 12 December 2008 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

the single's out -> feverray.com

― StanM, Monday, 15 December 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Tomorrow: digital release of the album.
Samples @ amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OBOZ6O

― StanM, Sunday, 11 January 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

I went out to see Coraline tonight (short version: IS GOOD) and one of the trailers beforehand, for some CGI Tim Burton-produced thing called 9, used the intro to "We Share Our Mother's Health." Was not expecting that.

― Telephone thing, Sunday, 1 March 2009 06:22 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

So this is quite alright, actually, isn't it?

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:56 (sixteen years ago)

even better than MPP nick?

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:16 (sixteen years ago)

'quite alright' is kind of an understatement

― just sayin, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

Hahaha, nowhere near as good as MPP, no.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:48 (sixteen years ago)

ok gtfo now

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:49 (sixteen years ago)

This will be in my decade top ten, come end of year.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:54 (sixteen years ago)

Hahaha, nowhere near as good as MPP, no.

http://cumbriansky.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/disappointed.jpg

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:31 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSkrYYpyUoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WhQ5TiBHVk

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

Coincidence?

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

adore both but never made the link personally

― modescalator (blueski), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:34 (sixteen years ago)

It is likely a total coincidence that these two songs have nothing to do with each other, but not particularly unexpected.

― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:36 (sixteen years ago)

They sound built from the exact same palette of sounds. Not that I'm complaining, I think both are brilliant, but I did think it was worth pointing out to the ILM hivemind.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

So they may have used the same synth or software? i don't hear the similarities and I listen to primarily electronic music. Saying these songs are similar is like saying Pump Up The Volume is basically I Feel Love.

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

Whoops, maybe I linked the wrong song. No audio at my computer right now, so I may have mixed up "Marble House" for this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fCL6RO0j0A

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

I swear, it's the same fucking song!

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 02:47 (sixteen years ago)

Not making the link at all I'm afraid.

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 10:10 (sixteen years ago)

Skip to 3:41 in "The Captain" and listen for a minute, then play the first couple minutes of the Orbital track.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 11:49 (sixteen years ago)

Starting at about 0:22 in "Lost" is where it hits.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 11:50 (sixteen years ago)

you wanna hear IM NOT YOUR TOY by La Roux if u want Knife-alikes. it's insane.

― piscesx, Thursday, 1 October 2009 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

Be careful when comparing things to the Knife, I got skewered for daring to compare Fever Ray to the Knife.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 1 October 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

BTW, in case you were wondering, Fever Ray sound NOTHING AT ALL like The Knife. It would be sexist for you to think they sounded similar.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 1 October 2009 02:56 (sixteen years ago)

those sound nothing alike

― psychgawsple, Thursday, 1 October 2009 03:09 (sixteen years ago)

the orb and the knife that is, not fever ray

― psychgawsple, Thursday, 1 October 2009 03:09 (sixteen years ago)

"Quite alright" is still as far as I'd go.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:43 (sixteen years ago)

you wanna hear IM NOT YOUR TOY by La Roux if u want Knife-alikes. it's insane.

noooooooo. at least, The Knife is the good version of a v similar synthetic pop blueprint ie they actually use pads, bass notes etc.

― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 1 October 2009 11:32 (sixteen years ago)

you wanna hear IM NOT YOUR TOY by La Roux if u want Knife-alikes. it's insane.

o_0 o_0 o_0

― lex pretend, Thursday, 1 October 2009 11:52 (sixteen years ago)

BTW, in case you were wondering, Fever Ray sound NOTHING AT ALL like The Knife. It would be sexist for you to think they sounded similar.

It's kind of crazypants to say there's absolutely NOTHING similar between Fever Ray and The Knife, what with the similar sound palettes and the shared instantly-recognizable singer.

― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Thursday, 1 October 2009 12:56 (sixteen years ago)

the knife didn't rip off orbital but they sure as hell ripped off pearl jam

― fleetwood (max), Thursday, 1 October 2009 13:05 (sixteen years ago)

Right. That's you off the list of cover designers then.

― StanM, Thursday, 1 October 2009 13:33 (sixteen years ago)

man don't get me started on that new Pearl Jam artwork

― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 1 October 2009 13:38 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

goddamn the oscillating bassline that comes in five and a half fucking minutes into "the captain" is a good sound

― lex pretend, Thursday, 3 December 2009 09:21 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

This is likely my favorite album of the decade.

― big time (HI DERE), Monday, 22 March 2010 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

It is my favourite album of the decade to have been released on CD in the UK (because I don't think Studio 'Yearbook One' was)

― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 22 March 2010 17:18 (fifteen years ago)

Mine too.

xpost

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 22 March 2010 17:24 (fifteen years ago)

the best album of the decade canonized hereabouts anyway

― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 21:25 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

(((d-_-b)))

― markers, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 08:12 (fourteen years ago)

from now on i'm going to answer my phone singing like karen does in "the captain"

― markers, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 08:13 (fourteen years ago)

!! o_O !!

― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 09:52 (fourteen years ago)

wooooo!

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:01 (fourteen years ago)

wow guys

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:05 (fourteen years ago)

oh myyyyyyyy gosh

― markers, Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:12 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/the-knife-silent-shout-round-35-nicks-choice/

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 13:56 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

sounds like a good choice for vocals
http://www.factmag.com/2012/10/20/the-knifes-new-album-to-feature-light-asylums-shannon-funchess/

― nathey, Monday, 22 October 2012 11:30 (thirteen years ago)

Oh my, the possibilities. She's a great singer.

While I love Tomorrow, In a Year, I hope the song structures on this album are more rigid and the textures more synthetic, like those on Silent Shout and Fever Ray. Not that I don't appreciate the way Olof's production seems to be evolving toward a looser, improvisational direction; but it seems that once artists go in that direction, they rarely come back (See: the tragedy that is Bjork's last couple of albums, for example).

― azaera, Monday, 22 October 2012 18:16 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

today's weather = first day of the A/W 2013 SS season

― caek, Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:37 (twelve years ago)

the knife didn't rip off orbital but they sure as hell ripped off pearl jam

― fleetwood (max), Thursday, October 1, 2009 9:05 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmbo

― caek, Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:37 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

There's a new retrospective interview on this album here: http://www.thefader.com/2016/02/12/the-knife-silent-shout-anniversary-interview

― one way street, Saturday, 13 February 2016 23:23 (nine years ago)

"silent shout" is perfect (the song or the album, take your pick)

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 14 February 2016 15:59 (nine years ago)

Faintly baffling that this is a decade old now.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 February 2016 09:25 (nine years ago)

is there a thread for most off the mark ilm hot takes?

Here's the new Knife song, 'Silent Shout'. It's not great. Not when set next to Heartbeats. People I've played it to have variously described it as "a bit Jean Michel Jarre" and "spoo-ooky goth shit" and "that bloody keyboard bit makes me feel like I'm ill and I need to hold my nose to blow out my ears".
http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1CN1IZ4ZKQM6A1I51IMKW3UHMW
― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, January 7, 2006 12:25 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That song is surprisingly bad.
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Saturday, January 7, 2006 3:38 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― niels, Friday, 26 February 2016 13:37 (nine years ago)

hahaha

― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:13 (nine years ago)

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