The Knife Silent Shout 2006 Zip

Happy 15th Anniversary to The Knife’s second studio album Deep Cuts, originally released January 17, 2003.The Knife, the sister and brother duo Karin and Olof Dreijer, have worked hard to avoid becoming pop stars. They self-released Deep Cuts and their eponymous 2001 debut on Rabid Records, their own record label. They go to great lengths to obscure their identity. Over the course of their nearly 20-year career, The Knife, and solo projects like, have remained capital “A” Art.Admittedly a little scattershot, the Dreijers’ first album The Knife is interesting and charming at times, shining a light on their pop origins. A more fleshed out idea, Deep Cuts was originally released in Sweden and the UK in 2003.

In 2006, after the success of the single “Heartbeats,” Mute Records released it in the United States. Over the past 15 years, it has aged into a cheeky dance album, with brazen lyrics and inventive arrangements.The most well-known track on the album is the one that opens it: “Heartbeats.” It’s a sawing, slow moving, pop juggernaut of a song. It has been covered ad nauseum and is in the popular lexicon as background music on numerous TV shows. The lyrics, written by the Swedish siblings, are infectious. The beat is an edgy earworm, kept interesting by Karin’s haunting vocals.

This single would help them gain a more global popularity, outside of their native Sweden where they are ubiquitous. “Girls’ Night Out” is a spacey dance track, that doesn’t get much credit due to its position on the track list and relatively pedestrian lyrics.

It’s not as frantic as “Listen Now,” a synthesized battle cry. Throughout Deep Cuts, The Knife undulates between campy pop and sparse techno. It’s hard to train your attention on one style.After “Heartbeats,” the next singles contender is “Pass This On.” A Calypso/ Kraftwerk mashup, Karin sighs, “I’m in love with your brother,” in a romantic moment. The wink is still there, in the sly line, “Is he willing? Can he play?” “Pass This On” would be remixed on The Knife’s 2014 album Shaken Up, a collection of remixes of past songs. This time around it’s played in a Detroit House style, with a long intro leading up to its signature steel drums.

Olof, who cheekily swaps the “brother” for a “sister,” performs the lyrics. A little too weird to ever gain the popularity of “Heartbeats,” “Pass This On” is iconic in its own right.“She’s Having a Baby” and “Rock Classics” are haunting and down-tempo. The former is a twinkling and wistful song, like a creepier. The latter is a swaggering track that plods along to meandering lyrics like, “I'll order a chai tea and you will have the usual au lait” only breaths before, “I’ll fuck your brains out.”. The criminally underrated “Is It Medicine” jolts Deep Cuts back to life. It’s a mid-album acid house track, with glitchy 808s and an almost monotone shriek-sing. “Is it medicine or social skill?” is a clever chorus for such a danceable track, and the entire three minutes shows off their relentless energy.

It’s this catchy ear, the one that knows exactly what will move you, that is so perfectly demonstrated in their next album, 2006’s Silent Shout. It’s the reason Deep Cuts could have just as easily been released yesterday and not 15 years ago.Even the stranger moments retain their energy over time.

The inexplicable strings cover of ’s “Black” on “Behind The Bushes” isn’t completely unwelcome. What comes after, as the original final track, is the harshest of oddities on the whole album. “Hanging Out” is crude and atonal. It’s an uncomfortable gag, but that’s probably the point. On the re-release in 2006, “This Is Now,” “Handy Man,” and “The Bridge” are included on the US version of the album. The tracks originally appeared on the soundtrack for the Swedish film Hannah med H. All three fit well on Deep Cuts, “This Is Now” standing out as the most meditative moment of the album.

“Handy Man” is a straightforward banger and “The Bridge” a drawn out techno track.

The Knife Silent Shout 2006 Zip Code

Never knew this could happen to meI know now fragilityI know there's people who I haven't toldI know of people who are getting oldWish I could speak in just one sweepWhat you are and what you mean to meInstead I mumble randomlyYou stand by and enlighten meIn a dream I lost my teeth againCalling me woman and half manYes in a dream all my teeth fell outA cracked smile and a silent shoutA cracked smile and a silent shoutIf I explain it once thoroughlyHe'll have you later 'cause it's never freeYou were at the gigantic spreeI caught a glimpse now it haunts meI caught a glimpse now it haunts me. General CommentIt seems almost entirely based on the 'Black Hole' series of comics. The video is made up to look alot like the comics. They even admitted it in an interview.

It inspired me to read the series. It is about a group of teenagers who catch an std that has different effects for everyone, mainly centering on physical disfiguration, which is illustrated in the video. The different verses I am almost positive are the different perspectives of the characters. Also losing your teeth in a dream means loss of ego, which happens to a character in the story. I don't feel the need to further elaborate, just grab the comics and you will understand. General CommentWow, what a complicated song. Well, to start.I agree that this song is probably about trying to tell someone something important.

They can't say it and they know time is passing and they'll have to say it soon, but they can't make the words come out all at once and the way they want them to ('Instead I mumble randomly'). They're so stressed over this they lose sleep and/or have vivid nightmares, but they don't want to talk about what's bothering them to anyone, instead trying and failing to hide how troubled they are with a smile.Now here comes the hard part. The last five lines are the most confusing to me.Either what they saw at the 'gigantic spree' is what's bothering them ('it haunts me') and that's what they want to talk about in the first place, or.They were going to confide in the other person because they've realized they're going to have to pay the price for what they have to say sooner or later ('He'll have you later cause it's never free') but they see something that makes them doubt that the other person can be trusted, and they have no idea what to do.

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General CommentSilent Shout is such a dark song, from such a cold, dark, but really beautiful album. I think the song could be about confronting one's own inner fears, she 'now knows fragility', before she was unable to speak, only 'mumble randomly'. But she has a dream and sees her fears, and is ahunted by them for the rest of her life. She cannot escape what she fears most. Although, I also would understand some gender-bending theory ebcause the song does use the octave filter, so it sounds like Karin Dreijer is a man. The song certainly deals with the inability to communicate, she cannot speak, and even the title 'Silent Shout' reflects that theme. Congratulatiosn to The Knife on having Silent Shout named the best album of the year by pitchfork.

The song is the soundtrak to my nightmares, lol.