Who Is It
Björk
Medúlla, 2004
I haven’t heard the newest Björk album yet but it arrival made me realize it was probably time to revisit Medúlla again, as I’ve owned it for three years and only listened to it once. I couldn’t get into it at all on first attempt. Medúlla is almost entirely made up of voices. The only non-voice sounds are a bass synthesizer on “Who Is It” and a piano and gong on two other songs. I thought this was sort of a left-field (that’s saying a lot for her) Björk-fans-only album as I don’t really remember a single doing particularly well (so, she sang her first single at the Olympics, I’m not impressed, who watches the Olympics?) and I was surprised to just read that this album reached 14 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and received two Grammy Nominations.
Upon second inspection I gravitated to two songs: “Oceania” (the first single) and this song.
If I’m sleeping on any songs on this album, please leave me comment.
>> songs are available for two weeks [5.4 MB]
September 15th, 2008 at 1:56 am
there’s actually a remix [of sorts] of oceania on one of the singles/ep’s from that album that’s rather nice [i actually like it better than the original] and it has features vocals from kelis [you know… “my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard”-kelis] but is surprisingly good… you should be able to find it floating around any of the p2p networks…