I wouldn’t say I’m a massive Björk fan; I’ve never felt the urge to go see her play live, nor have I ever seen Dancer In The Dark, but Post is one of my favorite albums of the nineties. I was fourteen when it came out and all I knew of electronic music was that it sounded like a bunch of impersonal bleeps to me, untouched by human feeling and experiences. Acts like Massive Attack and this album especially smashed all my preconceived notions to bits.
I have favorite tracks, like “Hyper-ballad” and “The Modern Things”, but I love it as a whole. I adore the way one song flows into another almost seemlessly and yet it covers a mulitude of styles. The album seems to tell one story, but goes from one mood to the next like a bi-polar yo-yo. She follows a jazzy, latin beat with a harpsichord without missing a beat, but we’re cleverly manipulated into thinking that makes total sense. Every song creates another element of a weird but wonderful landscape. To me this album made alternative, arty, electronic music accessible and it still resonates in many new bands from Hot Chip to Final Fantasy to Bright Eyes.
Filed under: Backtrack, Music Tagged: | Björk, Electronic
