Bjork - Volta
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Free Music Notes for Volta
Free Music Review: *cliché lyric title*
Hit: 5 Stars
What is there to say. Björk has truly done it again with VOLTA. One stunning track after another rip through your aural senses like none of her previous work to date.
All thee hype surrounding this release almost had me worried, especially for the duets with Antony Hegarty on 'Dull Flame...' and 'My Juvinile.' Never believe hype. Antony's duet tracks are some of the best on the album.
If you loved Björk's earlier works (Debut, Post, Homogenic), you will fall in love with this piece of pure artistic genious. To quote Vertebrae by Vertebrae: "the beast is back!"
A small note about the packaging of the album. The standard American edition of this album comes in a stunning red digipack that opens in the front with flaps sealed by a sticker (the image of Björk inside the round, blue-footed sculpture is the sticker). Many people find the sticker to be a flimsy and stupid way to keep it closed. And indeed, it can be tedious to open the album for the first time. Anyway, I personally find the packaging to be brilliant and can safely say that I've never seen anything like it!
Free Music Review: Classic Björk
Hit: 5 Stars
Björk herself defines this effort as kind of a "second 'Post,'"
which is to me about as accurate a description as one could give of this album.
I am fascinated by all the controversy Volta has spawned. On one hand, we get critiques of her overwhelming "poppiness" on this album, and on the other, critiques of her inaccessible "artsiness." Since these two qualities are generally considered polar opposites when it comes to music, it is rather revealing.
There is no way one can call this album more "poppy" than Post, Debut, or even (the critics' darling) Vespertine. Nor more "artsy" than Homogenic, Medulla, Vespertine or Selmasongs.
Personal tastes notwithstanding, no one is in a position to critique any artist's fidelity to their own art.
The bottom line to me is: if you enjoy the variety and rawness that can be found on (particularly) Post, Debut or Homogenic, you'll probably dig this. If you wished for a return to the tempestuous side of Björk following her more placid endeavors on Vespertine, Medulla and Drawing Restraint, you should especially enjoy this work.
Free Music Review: Stunning
Hit: 5 Stars
This is wonderful, wonderful stuff. I had found Bjork altogether too quirky (and squeaky) for my tastes. Give me laid back grooves, French DJ stuff, post-punk (JD, Bloc, Interpol), the occasional blast of RnR, some pic 'n mix of other odds and ends and I'm a happy chappie. But I read all these 4 and 5 star reviews and bought it.
Am I glad I did that? Oh yeah. As many have noted, this builds on you over a number of listens. My pure listening time is in my car commuting. So I stuck the CD in and played it 3 or 4 times through, only extracting it a couple of days ago. Wow!
The overall sound structure of this CD is heavily layered and haunting. Take track 3 as an example, 20/30 words of lyrics, repeated and repeated, but the whole is a wonderful, moving sonic masterpiece, almost Gorecki in the way it swells and shifts. And there's more ... but let the analytical reviewers tell you about the track structure. All I want to say is ... buy this, play it right though at least 3 times, fall in love with it.
Free Music Review: AURAL GRATIFICATION
Hit: 5 Stars
Something totally different but interesting. Bjork was fantastic on "Saturday Night Live" performing "EARTH INTRUDERS" - this CD will definitely grow on you - sort of like a soundtrack. Very interesting and her vocals are more powerful than ever. No hesitation and total intimacy - a very sonically gratifying CD - that embraces hi-fi and lo-fi and great reverb effects. This is a CD to set an atmosphere - light some candles and drink some wine and relax however you might and enjoy this very unique and probably the most daring CD of the decade at this point. "Innocence" is very interesting and as mentioned before "Earth Intruders" is most rewarding - this CD grows on you with repeated listens and is definitely in a class by itself. Bjork always daring and refreshing in her experimental sonic journeys - she does not disappoint. This is pure aural gratification. Timbaland and Bjork produce some of the most intersting music so far in the decade.Free Music Review: Her concerts are AMAZING!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been a Bjork fan since first hearing her Homogenic album back in 1998. I have not had enough of here since. Went to her concert last Wednesday at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and had an amazing time. I got the album before it's official release so that I could have sang along to her songs at the concert. My favorite tracks are Earth Intruders, Innocence and Wanderlust. I am not a big fan of the airy songs. I am glad that she incorporated some Timabland beats. I would like to hear her next collaborating with Missy Elliott. They are different of the same spectrum when Bjork gets back into her pop atmosphere.
The thing with Bjork is either you LOVE her or HATE her. Her music is like watching a sci-fi movie... you never know what to expect and you are always pleasantly surprise.
She brings suspense to the dull (I've heard before) popular music genre.