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Title: Hardly unique, but still interesting
Review: Bjork doesn't score points here for a unique idea. Todd Rundgren did an entirely a capella project about 20 years ago that also had human voices doing "instrumental" parts. That aside, this is a more successful and interesting application of the idea. Basically, the music still sounds like Bjork, which isn't surprising given her unusual sense of melody and composition. Of primary interest here are the unusual textures she gets in the vocal arrangements from a variety of vocalists. That is the real triumph of the record, since this would also have been a very good Bjork album had it been scored for her usual mix of electronic and acoustic instrumentation.
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