after all this babble about bjork's new one, my roomate comes home with it
in her bag. so i snagged it and took a listen. here's my brief opinion.
the first thing that i thought after listening to about 5 tracks is that if
she'd shut her cake hole, this might be a great album. her voice (you love
it or you hate it) doesn't fit well with any of these songs, save for the
last track i suppose. it sounds really out of place, and doesn't go well
with the music.
but.. as for the music.. wow! it's really nice. sounds almost somewhat
rephlex-esque with some really nice crunchy beats (courtesy of mark bell)
but with bjork's usual airy-string routine over top of them. plus, that
annoying howl that is her voice.
favorite track? probably pluto.. although someone mentioned that it was
"unlistenable" among other things, i think it's great. again, if she'd shut
up, it'd be ten times better.
i don't know if i'd reccomend this release.. i go through periods of hating
then loving bjork. shrug. give it a listen before you buy.
i'll take cylob over bjork any day ;)
- wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu
" bored? no, i wasn't bored. i'm never bored. that's the trouble with
everybody,
you're all so bored. you've had nature explained to you and you're bored
with
it. you've had the living body explained to and you're bored with it. you've
had the universe explained to you and bored with it. so now you just want
cheap
thrills and like plenty of them. and it doesn't matter how taudry or
vacuous they
they are, as long as it's new, as long as it's new; as long as it flashes
and beeps
in forty different colors...
whatever else you can say about me, i'm not bored."
- mike leigh's "naked"