Aside from some subtle keyboards and plenty of sublime computer manipulations, Medulla's awe-inspiring architecture of sound is built almost exclusively from voices, including a few human beatboxes, veteran U.K. singer-songwriter Robert Wyatt, former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton, the Icelandic and London choirs and Bjork herself, delivering her most expressive performances and compositions to date.
On tracks such as "Oceania," clusters of voices swim by as if they were schools of brightly colored fish. "Desired Constellation" keeps things simple, with Bjork repeatedly wailing, "How am I going to make it right?" over a fluttering buzz. At the end of the surreal and vocally symphonic "Mouths Cradle," she concludes, "I need a shelter to build an altar away from all Osamas and Bushes." With this heavenly orgy of angelic choirs and gigabytes of technology, she has succeeded.
(Posted: Sep 16, 2004)
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- Pleasure Is All Mine
- Show Me Forgiveness
- Where Is The Line
- Vokuru
- Oll Birtan
- Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left, Carry My Pain On The Right)
- Submarine
- Desired Constellation
- Oceania
- Sonnets/Unrealities
- Ancestors
- Mouths Cradle
- Midvikudags
- Triumph Of A Heart
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