Read: interpretingbjork (2004)

Product Summary Label: Allegro Corporation UPC: 00751937235521 Release Date: 2/3/2004 Buy.com Sku: 60627979 Item#: M3DTWF Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. It's Oh So Quiet - Noise For Pretend ~ Various Artists 2. Hyper-Ballad - Blanket Music ~ Various Artists 3. Hunter, The - Kaitlyn Ni Donovan ~ Various Artists 4. Joga - Ben Gibbard/Ben Barnett ~ Various Artists 5. Human Behavior - The Decemberists ~ Various Artists 6. You've Been Flirting Again - Corinna Repp ~ Various Artists 7. Possibly Maybe - The Roots Of Orchis ~ Various Artists 8. Immature - Pete Miser ~ Various Artists 9. Unravel - Bobby Birdman ~ Various Artists 10. In The Musicals - Kind Of Like Spitting ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Read: is a combined label sampler/tribute album from the Portland-based imprint Hush. These interpretations are tasteful, almost reverent -- even when the arrangements are modified, there's consideration for that particular "Bj?rkness," that sly detachment her work is usually steeped in. So Kaitlyn Ni Donovan hesitates over each line in "Hunter" like she's creeping up on her prey. Ben Gibbard's "Joga" is more conventionally indie, his whisper resting lightly on the plucked acoustic strings. The Decemberists get all indie with "Human Behavior," too, but there's a sardonic quality in the vocal that ably matches the rhythm track's spot-on slink. Hush's quirky Noise for Pretend is probably one of the only groups that can handle "It's Oh So Quiet" without getting all excited and hyper and blowing the whole thing. Noise proves this with a version that wraps understated instrumentation around Esperanza Spalding's vocal for a truly luminous reinterpretation. Other Read: highlights include Corrina Repp's stark "You've Been Flirting Again" and a shuffling turntablist take on "Possibly Maybe" from Roots of Orchis. ~ Johnny Loftus   Technical Info Release Date : 02/03/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 43 Label : Hush Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00751937235521    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray