The latest album from the amazing Icelandic artist Bjork is also a collection of apps for the iOS. Which for you non-techies, means that it is also a software application that will run on the iPhone, iPod, and iPad family of mobile computing devices running version 4.1 or later of the Apple mobile computer operating system.
It is hard to categorize Bjork’s latest album. History may come to regard her as one of the most innovative classical music composers of the late twentieth and early twenty first century. The single from her latest album, Biophilia, titled, Crystalline, sounds very much like a continuation from some of her other work. One difference being a scorching drum solo at the end.
It has been said of novelists by a famous author whose name escapes me that they have only one great book or story and continue to write it throughout their careers. Or words to that affect. One reviewer of Bjorks latest album that I read opined that Bjork has basically run out of ideas and continues much as before. I am starting to believe that but it is the continuation of that really great novel whose story and characters you have grown to love and care about. Every new twist and nuance of the story in your favorite movie sequel is still of great interest if not especially new and groundbreaking.
If the material isn’t earth-shatteringly new, its means of realization, the unique new musical instruments, the iOS apps and Bjork’s intertwining of complex themes is at the least strikingly innovative. Placing her in the category of classical music composers may not quite do her justice. As simply calling her latest album, electronic music might also.
No categorization can do her justice. She’s just our magnificent, darling, Bjork. She’s an international treasure.
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