This band has been all the rage on the net as of late, but couldn't find a thread on this message board. Pitchfork yesterday wrote "And finally, on their quest to become 2006's second-best utensil-related band (sorry kids, The Knife owns), Spoon have been in talks with an unnamed "big" act about a package tour to kick off this August. As Britt teased Billboard..."

So the buzz has been so loud it's defining and have finally had a chance to hear it for the first time right now, very impressed. What does Obner think of this little record?

np: The Knife – From Off to On

Why don't you give us a sample?

i like it a fair bit, 'The Captain' is pretty sweet

has ILM deemed us worthy enough to listen to it or something now?

I forget about things like that (Kate Bush fans take note) :

The Captain:

http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OCQP ... JYA2FK1Q1X

edit: the song posted is called "We Share Our Mothers Health."

Don't know what ILM has to do with this, other than...nevermind.

...the 80's poll is kicking major ass as "Funkytown" came in as the 59th best single of the 80's with "White Lines (Don't Do It)" coming in at 39, somehow it all comes together at about the right spot.

Silent Shout:

http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H4P ... UGB0M0ZYYI

The Blue Room dj's have been caining the title track [which i truly enjoy] for ages, so i decided to check the album out. After I did, I can see why they only play the 1 track from it.

A total let down.

Another one of those electronic albums that I just can't understand why some people are raving about it [similar to the hype of Vitalic]

Pretty dark and synthy. I'm enjoying it, but need to give it a few more listens before I make up my mind completely.

When does this come out, by the way?

Since I saw the video for "Silent Shout" I felt the need to download the full album. Bee, better be on slsk tonite or else ...

did you mean "deafening"?

thx for the samples.

I dig it. Not revolutionary and not as dark as I though it'd be. It basically sounds like late 80s/early 90s Warp stuff. "Silent Shout" is really the only standout track.

I'll be(e) there.

the album is alright... nothing mind-shattering imho. as far as electronic music goes, there are WAY better electronic albums out there.

Sorry Paul, something came up but should be on all night Friday if...

Seeing Wilderness / Young & Sexy tonite and The Sounds tomorrow. If you could stay on slsk during the day Saturday, I could finish some of the downloads I had going on. Got tons of '06 albums this week so you'll be able to leech of me to.

I dld'd a few months ago and I don't even remember what it sounded like. It has since been offloaded. Not much of an impression.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-04/17.shtml#knife

Amy Phillips reports:
Rejoice-- but don't make any noise-- because the Knife's Silent Shout is finally coming to America. On July 25, the smart folks at Mute Records will bring the fourth album from Swedish siblings Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson to our shores and stores; it's been out in Sweden on the band's own Rabid Records since February, and in the UK on Brille since March. V2 handles it in Europe.

Mute Records is a perfect home for the Knife. Not only do they handle fellow electronic nightmare fetishists like Goldfrapp, Throbbing Gristle, Cristian Vogel, and Einstürzende Neubauten, but they're also home to José González, who scored an international mini-hit with his cover of the Knife's sublime "Heartbeats".

I don't know about you guys, but I'm super excited about this. Silent Shout is my favorite album of the year so far; it simultaneously creeps me out and pleasures me like nothing I've encountered since I first saw David Bowie in Labyrinth at a sleepover party in middle school. It's goth, it's techno, it's electro, it's synth-pop. But most of all, it's the embodiment of "haunted house," a sub-genre coined by Pitchfork's own Mark Pytlik.

I want this album to be HUGE. I want depressed, androgynous teenagers all over the land to play this album in their strobe-lit bedrooms while they paint their fingernails black. I want this to soundtrack a movie scene in which Scarlett Johansson overdoses on heroin. I want this to play on the radio while I'm taking a taxicab through the rain-stroked streets of New York at midnight.

The Mute release of Silent Shout will be proceeded by the single for the title track, due out on June 27 on CD and 12". Here are the tracklists for everything:

Silent Shout LP:

01 Silent Shout
02 Neverland
03 The Captain
04 We Share Our Mothers' Health
05 Na Na Na
06 Marble House
07 Like a Pen
08 From Off to On
09 Forest Families
10 One Hit
11 Still Light

I agree...

Fwiw, this album is brilliant by the third listen. To qualify this I'm not one to hear over 20 electronica album in a given year, so I take a chance here and there. This album does deliver the goods, IMHO, and is worth at least hearing. Like the quote says "It simultaneously creeps me out and pleasures me like nothing I've encountered since...It's goth, it's techno, it's electro, it's synth-pop. But most of all, it's the embodiment of "haunted house"