- Manhood - Single · 2021
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
- Live at Terminal 5 · 2017
Essential Albums
- At once massively influential and totally inimitable, The Knife’s third studio album, Silent Shout, made a meteor-sized impression upon its arrival in 2006—a time in which electronic and dance-oriented sounds were starting to commingle with indie-pop’s wistfulness, anticipating the rough-and-tumble thump of bloghouse that was to come. Silent Shout felt and still feels like a true shock to the system, its dark-hued and utterly gothic spin on electronic pop a stark deviation from The Knife’s 2003 predecessor Deep Cuts. That album had earned the group—consisting of Swedish siblings Karin and Olof Dreijer—plenty of attention, thanks to the buoyant single “Heartbeats”, as well as a blog-viral cover from dusky folk countryman José González. If The Knife were previously known for bouncy, slightly off-kilter melodies, Silent Shout represents the duo pouring jet-black oil over their shiny synth sounds, with drum machines ricocheting around Karin’s otherworldly, digitally processed vocals. It’s music that is scary as it is beautiful—like exploring a dark castle by candlelight. The music across these 11 lushly iridescent tracks is as inviting as it is totally strange, and to date, no one’s struck Silent Shout’s alchemical balance: This is an album featuring the psychedelic rush of trance, the clinical pull of German techno, the anguished creep of goth rock and the vibrancy of steel-drum music. And there’s a remarkable tonal breadth on Silent Shout, which features everything from aching monster-movie balladry (“Marble House”) to four-alarm dance-floor ragers (“We Share Our Mothers’ Health”) to wispy, ethereal electro-pop (“Still Light”). Plenty of musicians have since employed bits and pieces of Silent Shout’s framework to great effect, but none have come close to nailing the specific pop weirdness that The Knife achieve here—and that includes The Knife themselves, as the siblings (both separately and together) have continued to chart new and wild territory branching off of this landmark achievement of an album.
Albums
- 2006
Artist Playlists
- Experiments in the darker, moodier side of electronic music.
- Electro avant-pop that twists and throbs with mystery and menace.
- 2010
About The Knife
One of the most acclaimed acts of the 2000s and 2010s, the Knife fused progressive sound and viewpoints into striking electronic pop. From the beginning, Swedish siblings Karin and Olof Dreijer questioned societal and musical norms. On 2001's The Knife, they combined gender-defying pitch-shifted vocals, electronics that alluded to '80s pop and experimental techno, lyrics that explored queer perspectives, and a mordant sense of humor into subversively catchy songs, a skill they honed on 2003's Deep Cuts and its radiant single "Heartbeats." Over time, the duo's music grew darker and more ambitious. On 2006's masterpiece Silent Shout, the Knife balanced frostbitten sonics with affecting songwriting; on 2010's Tomorrow, In a Year, they reimagined the possibilities of opera in the 21st century. With 2013's final album Shaking the Habitual, they culminated a fearlessly creative body of music that inspired countless other artists to bring a razor-sharp edge to electronic music.
- ORIGIN
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- FORMED
- 1999
- GENRE
- Electronic