Bjork - Medulla

[DudeAsInCool]

Bjork, whose seventh album, "Medulla" (Elektra), will be released this week, has made a career of subtraction. She recorded boisterous rock with the Icelandic new wave band the Sugarcubes, started a solo career with eccentric dance-floor hits and then followed through with a series of albums that have been unpredictably sumptuous or sparse. As early as her 1993 album "Debut" (Elektra), Bjork was poking holes in her music, and since then those holes have been widening into chasms. With "Medulla," she pushes to a new extreme: most of the music is made with voices alone. While the album might seem to be a conceptual stunt, it finds gorgeous and startling new ways to extend Bjork's longtime mission: merging the earthy and the ethereal.

You can read the Jon Pareles full review in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/arts/mus...PARE.html?8hpib

[jbyrnes]

She is a true treasure to the industry. Breaking the boundries with every album she produces. The only other female vocalist that can do what Bjork does is Kate Bush. (ahh....Kate where have you been?) I can't wait to purchase another album by Bjork!

[method77]

I was planning on writing about this. Can't wait to listen to it. Everybody took a taste when she performed "Oceania" in the Athens Olympics opening