Album The Knife - Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience
posted by on August 24 at 10:29 AM
Way behind the times here, but I just got this live CD/DVD of The Knife on their Silent Shout Tour of last year.
It is just amazing. If you are at all a fan of The Knife’s sound this is a must have. It is so clean, and the songs have been tweeked with in all sorts of ways. I was dumbfounded. It’s like having a brand new version of Silent Shout.
They also perform some of their older hits, like the Jose Gonzalez covered Heartbeats. The live version is slowed down and with much of the original bassline minimized to give it a more sombre tone. It’s really something.
I’m fairly blown away by how cool this live album sounds. It’s crisp and clean and the audience seems nearly reverant of the spectacle unfolding before them. It has become my soundtrack for the last few days.
Definately check it out.
On a somewhat related note watch this amazing “live” version of Pass This On, from their album Deep Cuts, performed on Swedish TV in 2003. The tranny from the video “sings” the song surrounded by oscillating fans and mesmerized Olaf comes up and dances with her, before the audience quietly comes down to dance too. It’s pretty great. But as you can tell, I’m hardly and impartial judge at this point.
Just beautiful.
Silent Shout was re-released last month in America as a 3 disc version. Disc 1 is the album, disc 2 is an audio cd of the live performance, and disc 3 is the Audio-Visual Experience DVD. All for the price of the CD. Very worth buying, Silent Shout is the greatest album I have heard in a long, long time.
Also, the "live" version of pass this on is a simple recreation of the actual video, which stars the same tranny and has the same premise. Good stuff, I
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