“Silent Shout” by The Knife

"Silent Shout" is the title track of the Knife's third album, and the Swedish duo sent it out as the album's lead single in February 2006, on Brille Records. Karin Dreijer and Olof Dreijer wrote it, produced and recorded it themselves and mixed it with Christoffer Berg, and critics heard all sorts in it: musicOMH found brooding, bass-heavy dance electronica with a streak of pure evil, while Contactmusic.com caught Bristol in the lush, dreamy production and Kraftwerk in the beats.

The year-end lists came running. Pitchfork ranked it second among the top tracks of 2006 and later put it at 74 on its list of the 500 best songs of the 2000s, Resident Advisor had it at 16 for the year and 30 for the decade, Blender slotted it at 92 among 2006's greatest songs, and Slant placed it 84th among the decade's singles.

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