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 (twenty years ago)

That song is surprisingly bad.

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

oh, you just want heartbeats pt 2?

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

YETH

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

It's a grower, not a shower

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

i like it. kind of evil.

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

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

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

BRAINIAC.

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

this song is brilliant. dark and scary and gorgeous.

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

video looks creepy

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

where is video?

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

just going by the stills on the site

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

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

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

The single's been released on iTunes.

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

leak'd

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

first listen right now it seems good.

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

like a pen is awesome

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

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

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

please someone upload this album for me. PLEASEEEEE

cutty?

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

Oh my, "Like A Pen" is fantastic.

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

holy damn, those two songs are something else!

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

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

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

Here's "Like A Pen"

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

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

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even better than MPP nick?

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:16 (seventeen years ago)

'quite alright' is kind of an understatement

― just sayin, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:23 (seventeen years ago)

Hahaha, nowhere near as good as MPP, no.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:48 (seventeen years ago)

ok gtfo now

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:49 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

Coincidence?

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

adore both but never made the link personally

― modescalator (blueski), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:34 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

Not making the link at all I'm afraid.

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 10:10 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

those sound nothing alike

― psychgawsple, Thursday, 1 October 2009 03:09 (seventeen years ago)

the orb and the knife that is, not fever ray

― psychgawsple, Thursday, 1 October 2009 03:09 (seventeen years ago)

"Quite alright" is still as far as I'd go.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:43 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

Right. That's you off the list of cover designers then.

― StanM, Thursday, 1 October 2009 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

man don't get me started on that new Pearl Jam artwork

― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 1 October 2009 13:38 (seventeen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago)

Mine too.

xpost

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 22 March 2010 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

the best album of the decade canonized hereabouts anyway

― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

(((d-_-b)))

― markers, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 08:12 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago)

!! o_O !!

― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 09:52 (fifteen years ago)

wooooo!

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:01 (fifteen years ago)

wow guys

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

oh myyyyyyyy gosh

― markers, Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:12 (fifteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

today's weather = first day of the A/W 2013 SS season

― caek, Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:37 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago)

Faintly baffling that this is a decade old now.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 February 2016 09:25 (ten 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 (ten years ago)

hahaha

― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:13 (ten years ago)

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