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Music CD - Björk: Volta
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Music CD: Volta
Artist: Björk
List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: One Little Indian Us
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1. Earth Intruders
2. Wanderlust
3. Dull Flame of Desire
4. Innocence
5. I See Who You Are
6. Vertebrae by Vertebrae
7. Pneumonia
8. Hope
9. Declare Independence
10. My Juvenile
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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 9328082568036
Label: One Little Indian Us
Manufacturer: One Little Indian Us
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: One Little Indian Us
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Studio: One Little Indian Us
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Summary: play a volta!
Comment: i have always enjoyed bjork for what she gives to the world through her music. i don't ever want to take her too seriously or overanalyze her. i'm sure she doesn't enjoy that either.
i appreciate her encounters with timbaland, particularly 'innocence'. that song is a lot of fun and i can't wait for the remixes to start spinning at the clubs. it's going to make for some great, saucy dancing!
i also got a huge rise out of the song 'vertebrae by vertebrae'. the insistent stamping and those accents on the second beat are delicious!
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Summary: Typical Bjork
Comment: I didn't like the duets as they don't have the power of Bjork's other songs. Bkork's songs are strange and moving.
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Summary: Bjork's Best Album Since Post
Comment: This is the one artist that never ceases to amaze with her originality, creativity and constant experimentation.
Earth Intruders certainly has a killer beat but the real gem here is Declare Independence, an ode to speaking up for your own rights. What makes this song so amazing is the thunderous electro beat that keeps building along with Bjork vocals to finally reach a screeching point that could not be a better representation of the anger that one feels with political apathy in today's society (I guess that is my take on this).
Also not to be missed, the equally brilliant "Innocence". Both songs have been released with some amazing cutting edge remixes but the album mixes are just as brilliant. Bjork remains the one and true original artist of the past 20 years (yeah, the first Sugarcubes album came out 20 years ago)
Be warned though, if you expect an acoustic album similar to Medulla, then this is definetely not the one. The heavy experimental electronic sounds are closer to the remixes that Bjork released from her brilliant Homogeneous album. And yes, you will either love her or hater her, there is no middle ground here.
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Summary: Not her best, but good
Comment: i would like to say first that i am a huge bjork fan. i was very excited when i first heard earth intruders, hoping the whole album will sound at least like it. in fact, NOT!
the highlights are only the first 4 songs. the others, mediocre. bjork, come on, you can do so much better, make another vespertine or medulla!!
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Summary: honestly disappointed
Comment: it pains me to say it, but i didn't quite get attached to this album like the past ones. i am a huge bjork fan and would easily give 4-5 stars on all her other albums, but this one fell short. i was interested yet nervous when i heard she was collaborating with timbaland. not a huge fan of his work, but i think he is a pretty good producer for what he does and can respect his music. so it could have gone either way and once i actually heard it, it didn't work for me. somewhat of a similar vibe to Post, but definitely not as good. but being bjork, there were still some stellar tracks like "Wanderlust" and "I See Who You Are".
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Editorial Reviews:
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Björk's main asset as a musician is her fearlessness. Since the end of The Sugarcubes and the pop-dance of Debut, she has released progressively more experimental records. But after well over a decade of going further and further out, Volta steps back. Make no mistake; this is Björk, and so it's still fabulously weird. Like 2004's mesmerizing Medúlla and the 2005 soundtrack for Drawing Restraint 9, the songs are blissfully peculiar, with narratives about love, offspring, aliens...you name it. Yet melodically and philosophically, Volta recycles more than it innovates; the driving pulse of "Declare Independence," for instance, reminds us of Homogenic's "Pluto," and the lead single "Earth Intruders" sounds like Post's "Army of Me" on steroids. And just as Medúlla oriented itself around a certain instrument--the human voice--this one concentrates on horns. Still, the transition between her early work and the avant-garde bender she's been on since Vespertine is pretty harrowing, and it's satisfying to hear Björk revisit her more accessible self. Uber-producer Timbaland pitches in here and there, most successfully on "Innocence," which uses a fat, disjointed pulse to drive the euphoric vocals forward. Elsewhere, the hyperactive sitar sample on "I See Who You Are" provides texture for the song's theme of enjoying each other while there's still "flesh on our bones." And "Pneumonia" makes fantastic use of the horn section with a soft arrangement that compliments the song's lyrical melody. So while it's a bit of a stall, Volta is a lovely pause. It reminds us how much we appreciate the laboratory of Björk's imagination, but also how much we missed her back when she was just goofing around. -Matthew Cooke
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