The Knife-Silent Shout (Limited Deluxe Edition 2007)

In his review of Swedish electro duo the Knife's 2006 meisterverk Silent Shout, Pitchfork's Mark Pytlik waxed ecstatic about how Olof Dreijer worked his sister Karin Dreijer Andersson's vocals through sickly FX, making her nursery rhyme delivery sound like it was coming from the bottom of a slimy well. But Dreijer's crude palette of old-school electro/techno sounds managed to exert a feeling of anxiety all on their own, picking under the scab of never-ending 1980s retro-kitsch until pus bubbled up from underneath. Now a little more than a year later, Mute repackages the album with a DVD featuring a spectacle of a live performance from Stockholm in 2006, where the visual aesthetic mines a similar vein of nostalgia for the heebie-jeebies that out-of-date technology can induce, plus 11 music videos and an extra CD containing the audio track from said live performance. For those of us who bought the record the first time around, it's basically your chance to buy a new Knife DVD, and if you're a fan, it's pretty much worth owning two copies of the same CD.
Jahman's third album is a nice collection of tunes recorded mostly over Jamaican one-drop riddims. Jahman is one of St. Thomas' veteran artists and is highly respected and loved throughout the VI. Look out for more works from Jahman coming soon.

TRACKLIST

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01ł Silent Shout ł 04:56
02ł Neverland ł 03:40
03ł The Captain ł 06:11
04ł We Share Our Mother's Health ł 04:14
05ł Na Na Na ł 02:30
06ł Marble House ł 05:21
07ł Like A Pen ł 06:15
08ł From Off To On ł 04:00
09ł Forest Families ł 04:11
10ł One Hit ł 04:30
11ł Still Light ł 03:16
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01ł Pass This On (Live) ł 05:38
02ł The Captain (Live) ł 06:09
03ł We Share Our Mother's Health (Live) ł 04:27
04ł You Make Like Charity (Live) ł 04:20
05ł Marble House (Live) ł 05:00
06ł Forest Families (Live) ł 04:22
07ł Kino (Live) ł 04:56
08ł Heartbeats (Live) ł 04:22
09ł Silent Shout (Live) ł 05:25
10ł From Off To On (Live) ł 05:30
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TOTAL PLAYTiME (MiN):ł 99:13