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    Shocking Omissions: The Subversive Electro-Pop Of The Knife's 'Silent Shout'

    In 2017, to compare a new alt-pop act to The Knife is stating the obvious by default: The duo's 2006 album remade indie and pop in its deliberate, unsettling image.
    by Katherine St Asaph Sep 06, 2017 4 minutes
    On The Knife's <em>Silent Shout, </em>the duo remade indie and pop in their deliberate, unsettling image.

    In 2003, the Grammis (Sweden's answer to music's annual canonization ceremony) selected , the sister-brother duo of Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, as Artist of the Year. The duo didn't accept the award, instead sending ape-masked members of the feminist collective Guerrilla Girls in shirts reading 50:50 — a remark on gender parity in music, which didn't exist then any more than it does now. The move suited the material: The band's 2003 album, , is a provocative, political album with villain monologues by police ("I am a cop, shut up / I piss in your mouth") and womanizing CEOs (the double-entendred "Hangin' Out," which lasts, pointedly, one minute), where the girls of "Girls' Night Out" aren't out for fun but "something to blow up.".

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