FCKN HYPE

wow, its been 8 years! fuuuuck.

Album cover is beyond fucked up. It disturbs me greatly haha

Wow, I hate the cover.

kinda growing on me

Well that was quick

plz be good, that cover is hideous lol

Holy fucking shit between this and Super Mario Odyssey how the fuck am I gonna live tomorrow

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

It's on Spotify!

Throwing a review together right now.

Heard the single... some lyrics: "My fingers on your pussy..."

Oughta be good.

I'm frickin' loving this!!

Sounds exactly like the last album so far. The other dude in The Knife must bring something important to the table because this just feels...polite and predictable and very Bjerk

Second half of the album is much better

Björk is nowhere near as dancy as this

HEY now!

This is way less subdued compared to her last.

its lit

"Sounds exactly like the last album so far"
ummmm

"Sounds exactly like the last album so far. The other dude in The Knife must bring something important to the table because this just feels...polite and predictable and very Bjerk"

dumbest shit i read all year

‘Silent Shout’ created a landscape of sound, her solo stuff is just too vocal focused by contrast in my most humble opinion lord help me so save me god have mercy on my wretched soul

"dumbest shit i read all year"
wanna bet on that?

thats funny considering this is like her only album ever to have a long ass instrumental (aside from shaking) and how this is one of the most production oriented pieces of her discog

there are opinions and then there are facts

and the fact of it is that no matter how different the production behind Plunge is, it still sounds a lot like her first album to a point of tediousness

Yeah, I didn’t specifically say I hate the instrumental, in fact I say the instrumental ushers in a more interesting second half.

‘Silent Shout’ her vocals were rendered alien. Prefer that. I don’t really like Bjork style vocals enough to fall in love with her solo stuff.

Is all.

sounds more similar to shaking the habitual for the majority of it actually

"I don’t really like Bjork style vocals "

then dont listen to bjork, the singer of fever ray is karin.

...who sings like constipated bjork.

Musn't Hurry is the only song off the top of my head that sounds more at home on her self titled than some of the knife albums

"...who sings like constipated bjork."

re: sounding like bjork

"i get the comparison too. if only because i understand that when vanilla ass honkies who have heard literally no other experimental pop from outside of north america aside from bjork hear a voice with distinct inflections and accents with electronic elements they can only associate it with the one most popular experimental pop artist.



its like someone who has heard portishead saying massive attack sounds like them."

i get it, you guys are both old as shit and cant comprehend abstract pop music

nah, i think it's fine, i just always grab the chance of making someone butthurt.

Yeah I listened to the debut again and realised this sound more like that mixed with ‘Habitual’ - not my ideal combo.

‘Silent Shout’ sticks out as this perfect incarnation, probably down to all the filtering of the vocals and preferring the instrumental approach on that album.

Her solo stuff is decent enough, doesn’t ever surprise me like ‘Silent Shout’ (or even ‘Deep Cuts’).

‘Habitual’ seemed more antisocial and unpredictable too so again I kind of warmed to it a little more than this.

Your Portishead / Massive Attack analogy backs up my comment though :/

If someone said they didn’t like Portishead because they remind them a bit of Massive Attack I’d know where they were coming from.

rofl

no you doofus, what im saying is that they've both been there from the dawn of art pop, the reminiscence you see in the two singers is exasperated by your innocent ignorance. you associate them because they are quite possibly the only two nordic art/experimental pop singers from the 90s that you know. the striking inflections from their accents and vocal patterns are the only thing there. its purely circumstantial that they sound the same to you. they have both sounded like this since the early 90s, playing entirely different genres (bjorks fucked up album when she was a child doesnt count cuz she doesnt sound like bjork). karin was doing indie/alt shit with Honey is Cool and bjork was doing trip hop. they had no association. then karin started the knife which was doing synth pop while bjork was transitioning from trip hop to operatic cinematic bullshit and then only started her retarded first takes on 'art pop' in 2007, after the knife had already released the art pop magnum opus of silent shout.

this stuff is like making skype work for old people tho so i do understand how you could think that. but heres the brief history of karin not actually sounding like bjork at all unless you are old or vanilla.

i appreciate you recognizing that this album deffs is a hybrid of a lot of her work, not just s/t 2.0

Pots you think someone expressing their taste is always the same as criticising the artist and rush to the defence when really it’s unnecessary.

I’m not criticising her for ‘doing a bad Bjork’ or ripping her off - I just don’t particularly get excited over her vocals and never have, in a similar way to how I feel about Bjork. I see how they aren’t identical but in the same way someone could just say they don’t like any country vocals, despite there being many variations, I’m not a fan of this style.

I have this album at a 3.5. The vocals are my least favourite part about it. That’s it.