Bjork - Volta
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Artist: BjorkBrand: BJORK
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Atlantic
Product features:
- U.S. issue
- Rock
- 2007 release
- Earth Intruders
- Wanderlust
- The Dull Flame Of Desire
- Innocence
- I See Who You Are
- Vertebrae By Vertebrae
- Pneumonia
- Hope
- Declare Independence
- My Juvenile
Free Music Notes for Volta
Free Music Review: Bjork is back.
Hit: 5 Stars
Volta is a huge turn from Bjork's experimental "Medulla" which, honestly, I can't listen to more than half of it. Either I'm not not ready or it's utter crap. I can't decide. Very few songs do I still listen to, and all the others I want to forget about.
But Volta. Now, this is what I've wanted to hear. I've wanted to be taught, to hear something interesting, and most importantly, to really identify with something. And I think this is it. This is a well rounded exploration of current sentiments, her's, mine, anybody's. It's harsh. It's honest. It's raw but at the same time too innovative for most people to possibly understand. I say this because Bjork has always said her own words and gets her message to the world out. Volta is FILLED with emotion. This album puts me in a place I don't expect to be, but I am always understand in my own way. Whether or not I am completely on topic with what she may be saying, I certainly take something from it. Volta, in my opinion, is a perfect reflection of the global society we live in today.
"Earth Introduers" opens this great album. The energy is intense and a little dark at times, but it just makes me move. She's talking about whatver has come into this world and is forcing change, forcing a new to what was old. This song spreads through my body as it goes and I am left in a new place when I get off the train.
"Wanderlust" Is a typical sound from Bjork in her more tempo/bass era, but it's still a good track. Good layers to it. Her lyrics penetrate my thought and I instantly open up and ask myself the questions she's asking.
I like "The Dull Flame of Desire" It's a poem repeated throughout the song by Bjork and Anthony Hegarty. It creates varying levelsl of the theme of love and first attraction through tone and key changes.
"Innocence" Is a great track. There is something so modern to it, and very hip, very understanding of the changing body and soul.
"I see who you are" is very romantic. The softer track than the others, it's easy to hear and actually foreshadows the change of mood of the album. This song is very mature and honest. She is one of few people that can find the beauty of this life through acknowledging death.
"Vertebrae by Vertebrae" is easy to spot. It also sounds different. The music is more striking and elevating in intensity and it melts well wih the lyrics.
"Pneumonia" makes me sad. I was close to tears as I listened to this song. This song is very naked. The story is clear and so identifiable.
"Hope" brings us back to surface with her dependable easy baselines and percussion, coupled with rhetoric. I don't have to think with this song. I just take it in after going through the previous two tracks.
"Declare Independance" is amazing. It scares me, but it makes me fired up. This is the rawest and most intense of them. She is effortlessly getting a point across, which may be hard to listen for through the edgy sound, but it's a good accompaient. And then the beat comes, and there's no stopping from there. I'm so pumped when I listen to this song.
"My Juvenile" Is a wonderful close. It seems to wrap everything that has happened on the album, and in the experience in one. "The intentions were pure" makes it all seem worthwile, like I can enter whatever new world this is. I put this song away in my mind when it's over. I remember it
I loved every single song. Every single one. To be honest, that has never happened with me and Bjork. This is a great album. I can completely identify with this album. It's so eclectic and explores the old bjork, a new, more fun bjork. She obviously doesn't want to hold the past anymore, and neither do it. This album was definitely worth staying up for. I recommend any bjork fans who have gone astray to please give this a listen. I remember why I like Bjork. She makes me wonder. Mainstream music doesn't do that nowadays. It's all about sex and money, when those are the least of our problems..
Volta Poster
Bjork returns to her iconic, innovative and rhythmic roots with Volta. Featuring her own infamous beats and collaborations with Timbaland, Antony Hegarty, Brian Chippendale and an all-female Icelandic brass section, the end result is an explosion of beats and an amalgamtion of sound and visuals that give Volta a life of its own, like the world hasn't seen from Bjork in years.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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