Silent Treatment (Highasakite album)

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Silent Treatment
Silent Treatment Highasakite.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 2014
Genre Indie pop, indie rock
Length44:56
Label Propeller Recordings, Universal Music
Producer Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim
Highasakite chronology
All That Floats Will Rain
(2012)
Silent Treatment
(2014)
Camp Echo
(2016)

Silent Treatment is first full-length album, and second in total, released by Norwegian indie pop group Highasakite.

Upon release the album received rave reviews, with Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet lauding it, giving Highasakite their second consecutive 6/6 from the newspaper; [1] Verdens Gang was equally enthusiastic, giving it a 5/6. [2]

For the album, Highasakite won the "Pop Group of the Year Award" at the Norwegian equivalent of the Grammy Awards, Spellemannprisen; additionally, Håvik was nominated in the categories "Composer of the Year" and "Writer of the Year", winning the former. The same year the band won the Bendiksen Award, an award and grant given to up-and-coming artists to help develop their talent, winning 100,000 Norwegian kroner.

The album hit number one and spent more than 108 weeks on the Norwegian music chart, VG-lista Topp 40, setting a record in doing so. [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ingrid Helene Håvik.

No.TitleLength
1."Lover, Where Do You Live?"5:03
2."Since Last Wednesday"3:56
3."Leaving No Traces"4:21
4."Hiroshima"6:03
5."My Only Crime"2:54
6."I, The Hand Grenade"6:17
7."Darth Vader"3:29
8."Iran"4:06
9."The Man On The Ferry"4:06
10."Science & Blood Tests"14:14

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References

  1. Falkenberg-Arell, Rannveig (February 3, 2014). "Årets første norske sekserplate" [This year's first Norwegian six-record.]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved April 24, 2016.
  2. Bøe, Tor Martin (February 1, 2014). "Skimrende, lys og tusen etasjer høy" [Shimmering, bright and one thousand stories high]. Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Retrieved April 24, 2016.
  3. "VG-lista - Highasakite / Silent Treatment". Lista.vg.no. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2016-05-05.