Pitchfork: Exclusive: The Knife Sign to Mute for American Release

Exclusive: The Knife Sign to Mute for American Release

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 Einst�rzende Neubauten, but they're also home to Jos� Gonz�lez, 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

"Silent Shout" single:

CD:

01 Silent Shout (Radio Edit)
02 Silent Shout (Williams Acidic Circuits Remix)
03 Silent Shout (Troy Pierce Barado en Locombia mix)
04 Silent Shout (Shinedoe Remix)
05 Silent Shout (Original Version)

12":

A1 Silent Shout (Williams Acidic Circuits Remix)
A2 Silent Shout (Original Version)
B1 Silent Shout (Troy Pierce Barado en Locombia mix)
B2 Silent Shout (Shinedoe Remix)

There are currently no plans for the Knife to tour our side of the world, or anywhere else for that matter. So keep your fingers, eyes, and legs crossed.