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Title: absorb it!
Review: I must admit that I have a fetish for Bjork and PJ Harvey, so I don't claim to be objective. But honestly, this is really a relevant CD for anyone interested in decent mainstream pop music. Bjork can turn her limits (naive vocal technique, an icelandic accent you could cut with a knife) into peculiar qualities. She is unique in her ability to couple unusual harmonic passages with quirk turns of phrase and superb arrangements. This album defies classification -- there's big-band jazz, trip-hop, electronic dance, "sugarcubes", trance, soundtrack-like strings, even traces of Abba's notorius pop. This is an album that has not created a genre like "Dummy" by Portishead, but is vastly superior to it and many other for its musicality, originality, literary quality and sense of humor. "Homogenic" is equally good, but much more tense and influenced by the Bristol scene.
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