Both the album and the app are available at iTunes. Advance warning: they are two separate purchases. I got stung thinking the app also had the whole album.
I am a big fan and scoop everything by her. Granted I really havent made repeat listenings of her last one, ,as I listen to Homogenic and Vespertine a whole lot(Medulla was very interesting as well) . But, I am looking forward to this as I do all of her albums. Glad to see she is still doing some things others dont do or havent tried..digging the whole "science lesson" aspect of this...
I'm looking forward to hearing the new album, although if I'm honest I think she reached a peak with "Vespertine"; there is a great acapella version of "Hidden Place" from this album if you haven't already heard it.
As for putting out more dance-oriented stuff, there were a couple from "Volta" that would work on an open-minded dancefloor (although probably not one expecting mid-90's style dance music). In fact, I find most dance mixes of her stuff really bad, even the stuff from "Debut" that perhaps lent itself to these type of mixes more than anything else she's done. She's not a main room dance diva whose songs you can just shove a 4/4 kick under.
Not really a fan of that ending to "Crystalline" either.
Despite feeling that everything she's released since Vespertine has been a bit of a let down I still automatically check out any new release from her purely on the promise that she'll be offering up something new and different to most artists out there (and Vespertine is the kind of career high most artists don't reach once never mind twice).
Having listened through Biophilia a couple of times I can't say that I think it's ever going to blow me away though, as always, it's interesting to hear the influences she draws from previous albums along with current trends in dance/electronic music. I see it as kind of like what Madonna does with her incessant wooing of "in" producers but done well and as an absorbed influence rather than as pastiche.
In the context of the album I actually think Crystalline works well. It could just be the flashbacks it gives me to my DnB years but I feel it wakes the album up for that brief 1-2 minutes at the end of the song. I would never accuse Bjork of being easy listening but the album as a whole definitely drifts by a bit and spends a little too much time being pleasant, nothing more, nothing less, for my ears.
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Edit: I now distinctly remember not liking the drum n bass breakdown on the one song.
Both the album and the app are available at iTunes. Advance warning: they are two separate purchases. I got stung thinking the app also had the whole album.
The end of "Crystalline" is straight up 90's Squarepusher - Big Loada Style Glitch n' Bass madness
yeah, but instead of dabbling, going all in with it.
a-hem
i haven't checked those Matmos guys for some time, almost forgot about them. great track there.
As for putting out more dance-oriented stuff, there were a couple from "Volta" that would work on an open-minded dancefloor (although probably not one expecting mid-90's style dance music). In fact, I find most dance mixes of her stuff really bad, even the stuff from "Debut" that perhaps lent itself to these type of mixes more than anything else she's done. She's not a main room dance diva whose songs you can just shove a 4/4 kick under.
Not really a fan of that ending to "Crystalline" either.
Having listened through Biophilia a couple of times I can't say that I think it's ever going to blow me away though, as always, it's interesting to hear the influences she draws from previous albums along with current trends in dance/electronic music. I see it as kind of like what Madonna does with her incessant wooing of "in" producers but done well and as an absorbed influence rather than as pastiche.
In the context of the album I actually think Crystalline works well. It could just be the flashbacks it gives me to my DnB years but I feel it wakes the album up for that brief 1-2 minutes at the end of the song. I would never accuse Bjork of being easy listening but the album as a whole definitely drifts by a bit and spends a little too much time being pleasant, nothing more, nothing less, for my ears.