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16 years, 9 months ago at Jul 29 11:17
Following three thematically stringent efforts, the Icelandic sound sorceress loosens up and lets her imagination run wild. As it unfolds, Volta’s hodge-podge of moods and materials echoes every stage of her career, and her collaborators (including Timbaland, Antony, Konono No.1, pipa player Min Xiao-Fen and drummers from Sunburned Hand and Lightning Bolt) are likewise literally all over the map... read more
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Björk's main asset as a musician is her fearlessness. Since the end of The Sugarcubes and the pop-dance of Debut, she has released progressively more experimental records. But after well over a decade of going further and further out, Volta steps back. Make no mistake; this is Björk, and so it's still fabulously weird. Like 2004's mesmerizing Medúlla and the 2005 soundtrack for Drawing Restraint 9, the songs are blissfully peculiar, with narratives about love, offspring, aliens...you name it. Yet melodically and philosophically, Volta recycles more than it innovates; the driving pulse of "Declare Independence," for
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Manufacturer: Atlantic
Release date: 8 May 2007
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075678998980 UPC: 075678998980
Release date: 8 May 2007
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075678998980 UPC: 075678998980
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