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Artist: Bjork
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Label: Wea/elektra Entertainment
UPC: 00075596174022
Release Date: 6/13/1995
Buy.com Sku: 60077515
Item#: M3FJQ6
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Army Of Me ~ Bjork
2. Hyper-ballad ~ Bjork
3. Modern Things, The ~ Bjork
4. It's Oh So Quiet ~ Bjork
5. Enjoy ~ Bjork
6. You've Been Flirting Again ~ Bjork
7. Isobel ~ Bjork
8. Possibly Maybe ~ Bjork
9. I Miss You ~ Bjork
10. Cover Me ~ Bjork
11. Headphones ~ Bjork



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel includes: Bjork (vocals, organ, keyboards); Jim Couza (hammered dulcimer); Rob Smissen (viola); Tony Pleeth (cello); Gary Barnacle (soprano saxophone); Maurice Murphy, Stuart Brooks, Einar Orn (trumpet); Guy Sigsworth (harpsichord); Tricky, Marius De Vries, Graham Massey (keyboards, programming); Talvin Singh (percussion); Lenny Franchi, Howie Bernstein (programming); Marcus Dravs (sound effects).
Producers: Bjork, Nellee Hooper, Graham Massey, Tricky, Howie Bernstein.
Engineers include: Al Fisch, Howie Bernstein, Steve Price.
Personnel: Bj?rk (vocals, organ, keyboards); Bj?rk; Jim Couza (hammer dulcimer); Robert Smissen (viola); Tony Pleeth (cello); Gary Barnacle (soprano saxophone); Einar ?rn, Maurice Murphy, Stuart Brooks (trumpet); Guy Sigsworth (harpsichord); Graham Massey, Tricky (keyboards, programming); Talvin Singh (percussion); Howie B, Lenny Franchi (programming); Marius de Vries (keyboards, programming).
Audio Mixers: Howie B; Howard Howie Bernstein; Al Stone; Mark "Spike" Stent; Markus Dravs.
Photographer: Stephane Sednaoui.
Unknown Contributor Roles: John Barclay; Colin Green; Pete Beachill; Bob Sydor; J. Neil Sidwell; Bill Skeat; Gary Barnacle; Steve Waterman; Connie Hughes; Martin Gardiner; Steve Saunders; Alan Barnes; Paul Morgan; Simon Chamberlain; Ralph Salmins; Ray Swinfield; Philip Todd; Malcolm Griffiths; Simon Gardner.
POST, Bjork's second release as a solo artist, mines the fertile soil of the eclectic musical terrain of post-modern pop. The album throbs in and out of ambient cadences with techno beats, slips into showtune theatrics, then reels back to the dance floor.
With a full plate of sounds already on the table, Bjork adds her own unique flare to the presentation, proving she is not easily pigeonholed. The lyrically-insistent opener, "Army Of Me," is a relentless electronic grind that is typical of Bjork's vibe, but POST also digs into Western music's more organic resources. "It's Oh So Quiet" may be a remake of an old Hollywood showtune, but Bjork's version transcends the song's silver screen aloofness on the strength of her delightful screams ("Zing, BOOM!!/You fall in love"). It is directly followed by "Enjoy," a lurching hypnotic nod with musical help from British trip-hop MC, Tricky; and the smooth, Bee Gees-like orchestration of "Isobel," a swooning accompaniment to strobe light bongo drums which announces that the listener is no longer at a rave, but at a disco.
POST shows off Bjork's grasp of technology, history and basic pop aesthetics. Few modern rock albums have sampled so many different facets of the atypical buffet and have come up with such tasty results.

Musical Guests
Tricky
Einar Orn

 
Artist Overview
A fearless sonic adventurer, Icelandic songstress Bjork first appeared prominently on the musical map in 1988 with LIFE'S TOO GOOD, the debut album of her band, the Sugarcubes. Four years later, the group split, and Bjork wasted no time in working on solo material. In 1993, DEBUT, an innovative blend of electronica, pop, jazz, and exotica, was released to widespread acclaim, and Bjork's singular whisper-to-a-scream vocal style soon reached a much larger audience. Since then, her passion for emotional yet experimental pop songs has only increased, as her string of consistently remarkable albums and videos has revealed. Along the way she even starred in a major film, Lars Von Trier's acclaimed DANCER IN THE DARK.

Artist Influences
808 State | Cocteau Twins | David Bowie | Dead Can Dance | Joni Mitchell | Kate Bush | Kraftwerk | Massive Attack | New Order (UK) | Peter Gabriel | Saint Etienne | Siouxsie and the Banshees | The Orb | Underworld | William Orbit

Artist Contemporaries
808 State | æ-Ziq | Air (2~France) | Aphex Twin | Autechre | Beck | Beth Orton | Broadcast | Cibo Matto | Crystal Waters | Dubstar | Eivor P lsd¢ttir | Everything But the Girl | Faithless | Garbage | Goldfrapp | Goldie | Laika | Lamb | Leila | Lizzy Mercier Descloux | Madonna | Massive Attack | Moloko | Mono | Morcheeba | New Order (UK) | Nicolette | One Dove | Pan Sonic | Pizzicato Five | PJ Harvey | Plaid | Portishead | Pram | Primal Scream | Radiohead | Saint Etienne | Scala | Sneaker Pimps | Solex | Soul II Soul | Stereolab | The Beloved | The Black Dog | To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie | Towa Tei | Tricky | Whale | White Town

Artist Followers
Anjali | Buffalo Daughter | CocoRosie | Cornelius | Denali | Hanne Hukkelberg | Joanna Newsom | Komeda | M£m | Matmos | Mia Doi Todd | Mono | Morcheeba | Sia | Silje Nes | Solex


 
Compilation Appearances
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Not For Threes
Gilmore Girls: Our Little Corner of the World
Latenight Tales
Latenight Tales
Mtv Unplugged Vol 2:very Best Of
Music From Glastonbury The Film(Explicit Version)
A Tribute To Joni Mitchell

 
Associated Artists and Works
Original Soundtrack
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Drawing Restraint 9 ~ Original Soundtrack
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Various Artists
Read: Interpreting Bjork ~ Various Artists
The String Quartet Tribute to Bj?rk: Violently ~ Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Ice: The String Tribute to Bj?rk ~ Vitamin String Quartet

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 06/13/1995
Original Release Date : 1995
Catalog ID : 61740
Label : Elektra
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 46m : 17s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00075596174022

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.140)
- Ranked # 43 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" - "...[A] strange, affecting work..."

Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.61)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

Rolling Stone (1/25/96, p.41)
- Tied for #7 in the 1996 Critics' Poll.

Rolling Stone (6/29/95, pp.41-42)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...POST comes up as victorious and gallant as any of her Viking forefathers. Chock-full of curious noises, mesmerizing vocals and musical surprises, POST provides a much-needed escape route from alternative rock's dull offerings of late..."

Spin (9/99, pp.120-1)
- Ranked #7 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."

Spin (12/95, p.63)
- Ranked #13 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '95.'

Spin (7/95, p.72)
- 8 - Very Good - "...Bjork is a bit more controlled this time around, so when she does let loose with the PSYCHO screams...her extremes pack more impact....Whether her accompaniment is punk guitars, disco beats, jazz horns, or symphonic strings, Bjork always comes across as her own wacky and seductively weird creation."

Entertainment Weekly (6/23/95, p.55)
- "...the ex-Sugarcube finds a bizarre and irresistible connecting point between industrial-disco, ambient-trance, and catchy synth pop..." - Rating: A

Q (7/95, p.114)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...avoid[s] both the usual follow-up pitfalls of repetition and encroaching commerciality....she's still finding the room to embrace the often convoluted twists and turns of emotion..."

Vibe (12/99, p.162)
- Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century

Melody Maker (12/23-30/95, pp.66-67)
- Ranked #48 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year.'

Melody Maker (6/3/95, p.35)
- Recommended - "...sonically, it's DEBUT with the edges filed down...But...the joyful news from the front is that, below the suspect surface, there is lava..."

Musician (8/95, p.85)
- "...The fluid textures fashioned by our heroine...have a subliminal resonance that might undermine a less assured performer, although its hard to imagine anything upstaging her..."

Village Voice (2/20/96)
- Ranked #7 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.60)
- Ranked #53 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[B]old, cheeky, emotionally complex and musically ambitious."

NME (Magazine)
(12/23-30/95, pp.22-23)
- Ranked #35 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.

NME (Magazine)
(6/10/95, p.46)
- 7 (out of 10)
- "...a bit ethnic, extremely mysterious, a tad on the ooh-blimey-what-was-that??! side and a comprehensive summary of all that is good, grim and unnaturally groovy about one woman and her various mates' offbeat musical world..."

  
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