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Hallelujah and Hello: Björk is in good shape again! Few people have felt so much “overwhelming warmth” and “deep gratitude” in recent months as Iceland’s great world citizen. Hardly anyone has spoken in social networks with similar exuberance and similarly questionable punctuation. and guaranteed no one has lived a life like Björk: Spontaneous DJ sets between Barcelona and New York, inspired studio sessions with current electro avant-garde, Freitagsgeflöte in churches of Reykjavik – and now a new album that almost bursts with joy, lust and a desire for action.
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Björk called this album Utopia. This is a refreshing approach to end of a year in which bad news was piled up as usual in films of Mexican misery director Alejandro González Iñárritu. Despite all wobbling states, Atomdeals, climate agreements and morals, which are current world events, artist sits firmly and optimistically in saddle. The future is rosy and also smells like it seems to want to say with Utopia. Although this is far from reality, it is not so alien to world.
Why was Björk really bad on it? Because of separation from your partner after 13 years of relationship. In early 2015, album Vulnicura treated injury, pain and healing that accompanied with this incision. It contained immensely broad string music, proactively composed laptop music and a textual contrast program that was staggering in its explicitness. It was followed by tear-rich interviews, tear-filled concerts, a lot of tears at all. After last appearance of tour, Björk and her closest musical confidant, Venezuelan producer Arca, gave mselves a well-deserved champagne frenzy.
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Although it sounded like nothing before in world, Vulnicura was a genre record. It was suitable for trademarks of Classical separation Albums: aunticity, meticulous reworking and an all-numbing sadness. Björk followed succession of Bob Dylan’s Blood on tracks, Marvin Gayes here, my dear or Becks sea change. She embarked on a traditionally masculine field of pop, and re was a feat of strength, which now proves to be an important intermediate step on way to utopia.
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Musically re are worlds between two albums. The heavy and shocked Utopia goes away, strings deviate from an instrumentation reminiscent of music circle of a left-side alternative holiday camp. Birdsong and harp are prelude, recorder, alto, flute and pan flute are added in some heavily reworked form. Arca preprogrammes His beats and sound collages more cautiously than ever before around Björk’s arrangements. The artist sings with familiar interest in strange syllable emphasis and new flammability in voice. It tingling in her, and you can hear that.
