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Besides having obvious novelty value as a foreign-language children's album from a little-known culture, Bjork is entertaining if you listen to it in the right frame of mind. It's a charming specimen of childhood (not to mention pre-punk, in her case) innocence, albeit one without subtitles. The overall sound does have a foreign ambience, but it is still accessible to English-speaking listeners. A few of the songs (especially "Oliver" and a cover of Edgar Winter's "Alta Mira") are reminiscent of the Jackson 5. Bjork shows a chapter of the singer's career that does not deserve to be overlooked. Unfortunately, a proper reissue is probably impossible.
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Guide Note: Bjork is an award winning singer-songwriter. She got her start in a group called The Sugarcubes during the late 70's. Since then she has become a popular solo artist and actress.
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Bjork has three New York City shows scheduled: Wednesday at Radio City Music Hall, Saturday at the United Palace Theater and next Tuesday at the Apollo Theater. She will probably be the only headliner ever to perform at those places backed by a 10-woman Icelandic brass band along with laptop, keyboards and a rhythm section.
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In the ten years between the release of that album and the formation of the Sugarcubes, Bjork became part of a burgeoning post-punk music scene in Iceland. One of the bands she was involved with was called Tappi Tikarrass. The band's only full-length album, titled Miranda, was released in Iceland in 1983. The teenage Bjork sang lead vocals on all but the first and last tracks (those were sung by a less talented male singer), and all of them are sung in Icelandic. The material is not great -- most of the goth-rock songs sound like skeletal imitations of early Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees -- but Bjork is in good voice here, perfecting the purring and wailing that are now her trademarks. The better tracks ("Beri-Beri", "Hvitibjorn") sometimes presage the directions she would take with the Sugarcubes and on her '90's solo albums.
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Bjork has built a career and earned a worldwide audience by doing the unexpected, repeatedly. From her years with The Sugarcubes to her solo albums, the Icelandic singer has visited nearly every genre, always hanging on the bleeding edge of the avant-garde. Dense and polymorphic, Bjork's music is presented as art, with songs as chapters instead of singles. The mixture of musical elixir found on her latest album, Volta, is on par with her previous solo works. The music is classical and futuristic, industrial and pristine. Tribal rhythms, marching drums and orchestral strings fly through hypersonic layers of hip-hop producer Timbaland's keyboards and digital effects.
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"Declare Independence," the noisy and politically-charged song from Bjork's Volta, will be released as a single on the first of the new year. Just in time for New Year's resolutions! The "highly charged" video for the song was directed by Michel Gondry and will premiere in the beginning of December '07 along with some behind-the-scenes specials. Bjork will head out on tour yet again in support of Volta, playing in UK and Japan in the spring. MORE
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