Blog: Consequence Of Sound

One of 2006's "It" albums was The Knife's Silent Shout . Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson, the Swedish siblings who make up the acclaimed outfit, combined forces for a fourth studio album that was sterile, scary, and—more often than not—danceable. Andersson supplied the vocals for the entire album, but they were so densely layered and pitch-shifted that you wouldn't expect any sort of human being to be the culprit. As with any critical darling, Silent Shout was either the kind of album you fell head-over-electronic-heels for, or you just didn't understand why everyone was [...]