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BJORK - Volta
| Drowned in sound |
| “I have lost my origin,” remarks Björk on this, her sixth studio album proper disregarding remix records and that 1977 ‘debut’, with more than a semblance of surprise in her voice. Yet anyone who has run parallel with her unique trajectory since 1993's Debut knows only too well that the inspirational singer left her roots to wither many a moon ago; an international traveller and a homemaker on various continents, Björk’s ancestry might be Icelandic, but she is the epitome of a global artist, a child of the Earth rather than merely an export of an island on a wind-blasted and ice-sheeted northern hemisphere....full text |
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| All Music Guide |
| Once again finding harmony and creating alchemy between seeming opposites, on Volta Björk is bold but thoughtful, delicate yet strong, accessible and avant. The intricacy and complexity of projects like Medúlla and Drawing Restraint 9 suggested that she might have left the more direct side of her work behind, but Volta's opening track and lead single, "Earth Intruders," puts that notion to rest: the song literally marches in, riding a bubbling, ritualistic beat courtesy of Timbaland and Konono No. 1's electric thumb-pianos....full text |
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| Slant Magazine |
| our story so far: Björk begins her musical career singing cute Broadway cabaret music in Icelandic and achieves international fame singing with art-rock band The Sugarcubes. She reaches superstardom with a series of increasingly loopy but gorgeous electronic pop solo albums that prove she's not only a memorably deliberate vocalist but also something of a precocious songwriter with a love for mixing analog and digital instruments into one heady brew....full text |
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