Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — American X: Baby 81 Sessions

8/10 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s American X: Baby 81 Sessions sounds like a broadcast from an unknown signal on an old radio in a burned out shack after the apocalypse. It’s rock music, mostly settled noisy repetitive bluesy grooves (screw commas on this review). I should preface my criticism by saying that outside of this

Björk — Biophilia

7/10 Björk composed most of the music for Biophilia on an IPad for an IPad app or something like that, but I don’t really care. She took that music, tinkered it into a full-length album, and I only know Biophilia in that context. Björk intended this music to cover the scope of a tiny cell

Björk — Voltaic

7/10 Even Björk regarded her 2007 album, Volta, as “just okay.” She immediately recorded a live album after Volta‘s release, and even though it is entitled Voltaic, her lack of faith in the new material can easily be seen by the lack of Volta tracks found within. Less than half of the eleven “live in

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Björk — Volta

7/10 Björk’s sixth album, Volta, follows a very simple rule:If a song’s got a bunch of horns, it’s good. If it doesn’t have a bunch of horns, it isn’t.Björk worked with producer Timbaland on three of Volta‘s tracks. Those three don’t really have any horns. Go figure. The true problem with this album isn’t necessarily

Björk — Medúlla

8/10 I’ve been doing these reviews for four months, and none have given me headaches like these Björk ones. Her music is not only hard to describe, but the ways in which it has been described are extremely repetitive. Not only do I need to describe the hard to describe, but I have to describe

Björk — Vespertine

10/10 How about a rant instead of a review?Björk’s Vespertine is a perfect album that’s received terrible reviews. I don’t mean that the scores or grades it received were poor. On the contrary, Vespertine was one of the most positively received albums of 2001. But just about every review written about it either just took

Björk — Selmasongs

6/10 Selmasongs, featuring music from Björk’s film debut, Dancer in the Dark, is a strange beast. It starts out as a film score with the big hopeful “Overture,” but the found sound beats of the film begin on track two, “Cvalda.” Machinery noises from Björk’s character’s workplace make up the rhythm of the song, and

Björk — Homogenic

10/10 While Björk’s first two albums are quite enjoyable, they are also quite sonically scattered. They were, however, aptly named, and Homogenic, Björk’s third album, is as well. Homogenic is Björk’s first album to feature a cohesive, homogenized sound. Björk, facing some heartbreak and pehaps a little growing up, sounds more focused than ever, employing