Biophilia leaked

[dottiehinkle]

And I don't like it at all. The lyrics sound like she literally sat down and was like this songs going to be about crystals and this ones going to be about tectonic plates. Its like shes using a bunch of metaphors that don't mean anything. I would be more forgiving but even the production sounds like crap, and I hate how there isn't much song

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[adamwolf]

I'm going to wait until I can listen to it properly. What I love about Björk is that she never does what you expect her to do: for Debut she went from the new wave-y postpunk pop of The Sugacubes to something playful and rather mainstream. But then Post turned out to be dark and moody in places, and light and zingy in others. Homogenic had a cooler sound to it, more distant; and then Vespertine sounded exactly like what it was: a girl walking around in the tech-snowy landscape of her inner thoughts. Medúlla was the complete oppostite: open in both sound and experimentation, organic and about the world around her. Volta steered back towards pop, but with nods to the wide harmonies of Dancer In the Dark [ultimately her most accessible collection of songs to date] and the out-there soundscapes of Drawing Restraint 9, fuelled with some hiphop and some honest anti-global philosophies.

She's never been a lyricist, and she's never been exactly what you like about her. What people like about this album, is what she'll avoid at all cost on the next. This is the woman who used to make music with tin cans and samples of street noises.

She's not being U2, I guess is what I'm saying. She's not desperately trying to sound like the songs that pay the bills. I hated Army of Me, and I still don't like Ancestors, but there's something unique about each song and that's what keeps me coming back for more.