Lancemc
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A new album/application/multimedia suite by Bjork
So, I've listened about one and a half time in full to the album's leak, which is supposedly the non-beefed-up iPad app version of the album. Hardly enough to fully digest the work, but I do have a few first impressions to this, probably my most anticipated new album since her last, underwhelming to many yet pretty satisfyingly substantial to me at least, album Volta in 2007 (right? anyway, seems like forever ago).
At first blush, it seems to be a far more thematically and aesthetically unified, even focused work than her last album, with familiar dynamic shifts and album pacing that reminds me of Homogenic above all other Bjork touchstones. Sonically, this also appears to me her most minimalist work to date, something along the lines of Vespertine in terms of layering, which a touch of Medulla's choir-like multi-channel vocal approach. I'm hesitant to call the album minimalist just yet, which might betray some of the most faceted and thrilling electronic arrangements to be found among the folds of certain tracks. Overall there's a certain restraint and calmness to her work here that communicates a degree of spiritual acuity.
Biophilia sounds, for right now, like a refinement of Bjork's many artistic preoccupations over her career, etched, distilled and hardened to the tip of a diamond. I'm almost afraid to hear the changes she's made to the CD version in the ensuing delay. I'd hate for any additions to this particular soundscape to take away from its minimal beauty.
So, I've listened about one and a half time in full to the album's leak, which is supposedly the non-beefed-up iPad app version of the album. Hardly enough to fully digest the work, but I do have a few first impressions to this, probably my most anticipated new album since her last, underwhelming to many yet pretty satisfyingly substantial to me at least, album Volta in 2007 (right? anyway, seems like forever ago).
At first blush, it seems to be a far more thematically and aesthetically unified, even focused work than her last album, with familiar dynamic shifts and album pacing that reminds me of Homogenic above all other Bjork touchstones. Sonically, this also appears to me her most minimalist work to date, something along the lines of Vespertine in terms of layering, which a touch of Medulla's choir-like multi-channel vocal approach. I'm hesitant to call the album minimalist just yet, which might betray some of the most faceted and thrilling electronic arrangements to be found among the folds of certain tracks. Overall there's a certain restraint and calmness to her work here that communicates a degree of spiritual acuity.
Biophilia sounds, for right now, like a refinement of Bjork's many artistic preoccupations over her career, etched, distilled and hardened to the tip of a diamond. I'm almost afraid to hear the changes she's made to the CD version in the ensuing delay. I'd hate for any additions to this particular soundscape to take away from its minimal beauty.