Silent Shout  Silent Shout is the third studio album by Swedish electronic music duo The Knife. It was released on 17 February 2006 by Rabid Records. The album is darker than its predecessor, "Deep Cuts" (2003). It spawned four singles: "Silent Shout", "Marble House", "We Share Our Mothers' Health" and "Like a Pen". The album, the music video for the title track and some of the press photos were inspired by the work of German-American animator Oskar Fischinger and the comic book series "Black Hole" by American cartoonist Charles Burns. A three-disc deluxe edition of "Silent Shout" was released in Europe on 2 July 2007 and in the US on 17 July. In addition to the studio album, this package includes the DVD " "(which contains The Knife's live concert in Gothenburg on 12 April 2006, as part of their "Silent Shout" tour, and all of the duo's music videos to date), as well as a CD of the concert's audio. "Silent Shout" is a synth-pop and techno album. The collaboration between Olof and Karin Dreijer was described by the French pop culture magazine "Magic" as Jay Jay Johanson meets Siouxsie. "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)". Karin's multi-tracked vocals were frequently pitch-shifted to produce a "creepy result". "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. "Pitchfork" named it the best album of 2006 and the title track the second best song. The song was also listed at number 74 on the website's list of The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s, while the album was placed at number 15 on its list of The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s. The album placed 15th in "The Wire"s year-end critics' poll. "Resident Advisor" named "Silent Shout" the second best album of 2006 and ninth best album of the 2000s decade. In 2009, the album was included at number five on "Clash"s Essential 50 list.