What Silence Knows is the debut solo album by English singer Shara Nelson, released in September 1993 on Cooltempo Records.

22 on the UK Albums Chart[15] and was later certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies.

The current single, "One Goodbye in Ten", is particularly fine: a rich string arrangement underpinning a Sixties feel.

Other tracks, such as "Nobody", recall her past with Massive Attack, while the vox/piano style of "Inside Out" has a haunting, stark beauty.

"[10] Adam Higginbotham from Select said, "It's a tremendous soul album, with Nelson's searing voice matched to a full spectrum of musical textures and resonant lyrics that will frighten the pants off Derek and Shirley canoodling on the sofa in Swindon.