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Björk / Homogenic / Mother Records / 539 178-2 / Releasedate: 09.26
(tomorrow!)
Tracks:
Hunter
Jóga
Unravel
Bachelorette
All Neon Like
5 Years
Immature
Alarm Call
Pluto
All Is Full Of Love
Little Gudmundsdottir is back.
"I'm so bored of cowards" Björk exclaims in the 6th track, and at the same
time makes it pretty obvious that she really means it. Accompanied by the
heaviest electro/ industrial/whatever groove ever in a Björk track courtesy
Mark Bell she's doing something that not many artist with a constant
presence in the top-10 would do. This lady is pure magic, from Gling Gló to
Debut to Post to the more or less brilliant Telegram to this there has been
a constant transformation.
Of course "Homogenic" lives up to everyones expectations, tracks like
quoted 1 line Jóga<<, >>Unravel<<, >>Hunter<< or >>Bachelorette<&
>>Jóga<<, >>Unravel<<, >>Hunter<< or >>Bachelorette<< are actually some of
the most beautiful tracks I've heard from this icelandic polarstar. Makes
me want to give away all my cold and harsh Mururoa/IndustrialFolkSongs/Mask
stuff; this is music that MOVES YOU.
On most of the tracks the orchestration is by Deodato (some of you might
recognize this name from the "Isobel" EP) and the very gentle strings in
contrast to the hard beats makes things really interesting - really fucking
brilliant actually, I take it most of you've already heard the >>Jóga<<
single, which is the best proof of all that Björk has got something special
in her fingers.
It's getting quite crowded up ther now, but this album has it's place among
the other killers of 1997; maPOd, Chiastic Slide, Hard Normal Daddy, Black
Dog Live 1997 - >>Homogenic<< doesn't deserve anything less than that.
Some tracks are mixed and some are produced by Howard Bernstein,
beats/noices and programming by Mark Bell. I didn't like much of what Mark
Bell did with LFO, but his work on this album is remarkable. I don't see
any mention of Plaid anywhere...
The earlier albums from Björk were founded on a neverending eclectism and
Björk went like a bullet between different genres of music, flirting with
Jazz here and D&B there. This album is indeed more "homogenic", it's based
on rhythms and it's not as varied as the earlier "Post" or "Debut". There's
no BigBandBrass like on "It's Oh So Quiet", no standards like "Like Someone
In Love". No real surprises in the single compositions. However, everything
is so very brilliantly arranged and composed that it doesn't really matter.
Of course there is exceptions here as well, for example >>Pluto<< is
unbearable, totally terrible, unlistenable.
Björk is bored with cowards and she's fucking lightyears away from becoming
one.
I'd say get lost you "undergrounders", this is far more daring than Cylob,
Freeform or Music Aus Strom will ever be. Open up, this is:
True beauty,
True brilliance.
Fe.
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