Silent Shout

Silent Shout is a synth-pop[3] and techno[4] album. The collaboration between Olof and Karin Dreijer was described by the French pop culture magazine Magic as Jay-Jay Johanson meets Siouxsie.[5] Pitchfork viewed Karin's performance on the album as a "shrill voice (think Björk by way of Ari Up by way of Siouxsie Sioux by way of Mu's Mutsumi Kanamori)".[1] Karin's multi-tracked vocals were frequently pitch-shifted to produce a "creepy result".[1]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	74/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
The Guardian	[8]
The Irish Times	[9]
MSN Music (Consumer Guide)	A−[10]
The Observer	[11]
Pitchfork	8.6/10[1]
Resident Advisor	3.5/5[12]
Slant Magazine	[13]
Spin	[14]
Uncut	[15]

Silent Shout received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on 22 reviews.[6] Pitchfork named it the best album of 2006[16] and the title track the second best song.[17] The song was also listed at number 74 on the website's list of The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s,[18] while the album was placed at number 15 on its list of The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.[19] The album placed 15th in The Wire's year-end critics' poll.[20]

Resident Advisor named Silent Shout the second best album of 2006[21] and ninth best album of the 2000s decade.[22] In 2009, the album was included at number five on Clash's Essential 50 list.[23] Silent Shout was placed at number 95 on Slant Magazine's list of the best albums of the 2000s.[24] musicOMH, when compiling its "21 Best Albums of the 2000s", placed the album at number seven. In their "50 Greatest albums of the 2000s" feature, Gigwise placed the album at number seven, calling it "ground-breaking" and stating that "On the first spin it’s baffling, second it’s intriguing, but many listens in and you realize that Karin and Olaf Dreijer have concocted a masterpiece of their genre."[25]

The album was ranked number 83 on Pitchfork's People's List, a readers' poll of the 200 best albums from Pitchfork's first 15 years (1996–2011).[26]

As of January 2013, Silent Shout had sold 65,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[27] In October 2011, it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA), which indicated sales in excess of 75,000 copies throughout Europe.[28]

All tracks are written by The Knife, except where noted.

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Silent Shout.[29]

• The Knife – vocals, mixing, production, programming, recording
• Christoffer Berg – mixing (tracks 1–7, 9, 11)
• Pelle Gunnerfeldt – mixing (tracks 8, 10)
• Jay-Jay Johanson – vocals (track 6)
• Henrik Jonsson – mastering
• Johan Toorell – artwork