A lush landscape of human voices and sounds. No instruments, but rather the human voice as musical instrument. From human beatboxes creating the rhythmic beats to haunting moans and wails, Björk pushes the musical envelope another notch. With Mark Bell programming, it's got the same gorgeousness as Homogenic. I can't say I love it all, but I like most of it; some of the overlapping, pressed moaning, screeching, vibrations tend to get a bit messy in my ears. On the whole, if you're a stranger to Björk, this album will be strange indeed. If you're a big fan, you'll recognize some form of old songs reincarnated as new acapellas and just a flourish of music on the mundane landscape of guitar driven rock.
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