Bjork - Volta

I should mention here, in case anyone stumbles across this blog accidentally, that i don't claim to be a music expert, i don't claim to be a good writer, i don't want you to agree with everything that i write and a certainly don't want you to take anything i say as the absolute truth. All i am trying to do here is listen to music and give you my interpretation of it. Having said that i am trying to make sure that i do a bit of research on the artists i'm writing about before i bring you my thoughts. In fact my main problem with this whole album a day concept is not the downloading or the listening, but trying to read as much as i can about what the music meant to the person who made it, why they made it, and what it's supposed to mean. The great thing about music is that interpretation varies from person to person, and for some things i'd prefer to not know what a song is about, as i've given it my very own personal association of what it means and don't want that to be ruined by the truth. Sort of like when you read a book and have a picture of the character in your head, and then they come along and make a crappy movie version and it ruins that book forever because the character now looks like jude law or matthew macoughnahey ( who am i kidding what book would i read that he would be in the movie version? ) I don't know what the hell Bjork is on about most of the time, here lyrics are so expressive and explicit yet sometimes so bizarre that you can't quite get a handle on whether she is using amazing metaphor or just a mad woman. Most people would suggest the latter, as she is probably more famous to the gen pop as the zany swan dress wearing pixie woman who punches photographers. She is however responsible for some of the most brilliantly written music you're ever likely to hear. Songs like Human Behaviour, Big time Sensuality, Hyperballad are thick, layered, intelligent songs, with Bjork's voice turning every word she sings into something of Beauty. Her two early 90's album's Debut and Post are usual inclusions in any top 100 all time album lists. This is her 6th album following on from 2004's mainly acapella Medulla and possibly her most collaberative. 2 duets with english singer Antony Hegarty and 2 tracks produced by Timbaland. It's no departure from her normal style, but perhaps the inclusion of some more industrial style electronic tracks is a re-visit to early experimentations in 1997's Homogenic In the main though Bjork can pretty much do what she wants because her brilliant vocal range ( how is it possible to get so many itonations out of a one syllable word? ) means that any music plays second fiddle to what she is doing up front. and that is bewildering you with her madness, or is that genius..