Album Rating: 4.5
Demon: "am expecting some nice words to appreciate and perhaps an enlightening perspective"
I'll do Fungal City, although don't expect enlightenment...
Fungal City deserves love and high positions on ranking lists because it begins playfully - almost Post-like - as it describes the the subterranean city of the fungi. Bjork's mischievous melody bounces around as she sings about "perfumed velvet darkness". It is easy to imagine all sorts of mushroomy organisms going about their business in some magical way. And then she uses this setting to figuratively place her (I assume) son when he was small and innocent - unaware of the world's danger, safe and "cottonwool cocooned". And that's where the edge of the song, or at least the presentation of the parental dilemma, arises. Should she shield him from the confronting light of the world? Keep him safe and hidden in the magical kingdom of blissful unawareness? Should she "soften the blow of life for him?"
Then the music changes, and it becomes louder, muddled almost, but also euphoric. She delights in his "capacity for love" and his "celebrational intelligence" and reflects on how she shares this "vibrant optimism". She releases him (maybe).
And then we have another change, just as Bjork's focus shifts from "north-south to east-west", the strings happen, and Serpentwithfeet's harmonies join the mix. And everything comes together - strings, childlike melody and euphoric noise, to celebrate the incredible human capacity to love. As protection.
And then when I leave the house to go to work, I notice some fungi growing at the base of a tree, and I wonder...
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Album Rating: 3.5
great review!
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Album Rating: 4.0
1st paragraph: “while they won’t please anyone” - do you mean “everyone”? Great review! I’m enjoying this album more and more
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Album Rating: 4.0
Double post, title track SLAPS
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she lost me a while ago, but i still love her and would kill for her
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Album Rating: 3.5
wig !
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Album Rating: 3.5
still haven't listened to this, but 'allow' sounds good !!
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Album Rating: 3.5
I love buh-jork
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Album Rating: 4.5
Allow is amazing Colton. One of my favourites. Everything that was annoying about the use of flutes in Utopia has been fixed on Allow.
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Album Rating: 2.5
'we want Björk to make another Vespertine, and not only she will never satisfy those demands' (2nd para, the Vespertine bit)
Am I going crazy or have you transposed 'she' and 'will' here?
Nice review otherwise, although it puts a little too much emphasis on the expectations, or at least your 'perceived' expectations of the audience imo.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Spectrum Pulse gave it an absolutely glowing review. Love yours too, Dewi.
This remains pure magic to me. Quite firmly in my top three of the year, unless Alvvays releases a masterpiece this week.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Yeah that whole segment doesn't scan very well Dew, I'm not actually sure what your intention was as I guess there are multiple (slight) alterations possible
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Album Rating: 2.5
nerds
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Album Rating: 2.0
The English language is full of dumb inconsistencies, and the differences alone between UK and US standard makes things confusing at times, and then there's the fact that several things are subjective and up to stylistic preference, such as hyphens vs parentheses, or colon usage (I first noticed this reading Darwin's Origin of Species... mf uses them in the most baffling ways at times)
Unrelated but Melon rightly shit on this album
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Album Rating: 2.5
I rarely watch a melon vid but I think I have to in this instance. Album deserves a bit of a bash.
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Album Rating: 2.0
I should clarify that by shit on I mean gave a 5/10 haha, but still for him that's pretty low for a Bjork album
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Album Rating: 2.5
Gyro - the album is so waffly that it's rendered the man waffly, even the Melon review is dull, 5 out of 10 yup
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Album Rating: 2.0
Haha yeah he seemed in disbelief. I agree hard with what he's saying though - there's just nothing to latch onto here. Seen so many people raving about the theming but it really doesn't sound like she went deep with the concept. The shorter tracks get closest to it, and most other tracks just sounds like Bjork by the numbers. I think this could have been a much better record
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Album Rating: 2.5
A lot of extended 'mood pieces' or 'musical theatre' type extended skits with no dynamics or progression - yeah, he's right. It really does just beat you over the head with just one or two ideas for ages.
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Album Rating: 2.0
Good, gtfo out of here, Bjork simp! We don't need your kind here!!!
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