Bjork: Post (Colored Vinyl) Vinyl LP

Best album of the 90s? Possibly maybe!For her second album, Bjork and her cast of collaborators escaped to the Bahamas to record at Compass Point Studios, home of legendary sessions by Grace Jones, Bob Marley and more (bizarre rumors fromthese sessions depict Bjork recording vocals inside of a cave, on the beach with an extended microphone cord, or completely nude in the studio). Having satisfied her house ambitions on Debut, Bjork expands her pallette to include industrial, IDM, modern classical and blunted trip-hop textures, recruiting Tricky, Deodato, Guy Sigsworth and Graham Massey (of 808 State). Nellee Hooper returns to lend a hand to six tracks, most notably the disarming tearjerker Hyperballad.Bjorks sessions withMassey (Army Of Me, The Modern Things) predateDebutbut were temporarilyput on hold until the release of Post. The album contains some of Bjorks most unforgettable performances, from Broadway-worthy Its Oh So Quiet to the slow crackle of Possibly Maybe, which DJ Shadow sampled only a year later on Endtroducing. Post established Bjork as thesingular artist and world class singer we know her as today, flexing a cool allure over metallic downtempo beats or delivering an Earth-shaking showtunes performance on the same album in a way that only she could make work. This pink vinyl pressing was issued to celebrate Bjorks 2015 retrospective at New Yorks Museum Of Modern Art and is extremely limited! Recommended.

• 140 gram pink vinyl reissue
• digital download included
• limited edition
• music label: One Little Indian 2015

reviewed bypeanut dust 03/2017

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