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SELMASONGS
Bjork
(Elektra / Warner)
Beware: If you give an eccentric genius like Bjork free run of the candy store, she'll eat herself sick.
The big budget given major motion pictures may be the only thing that mars this strange and haunting soundtrack album to the film Dancer in the Dark. The Icelandic pixie stars in the film and wrote all the music. While there are some truly innovative moments - like a Kurt Weill-ish duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke - it's like she didn't know when to stop. With childlike abandon, Bjork piles on factory sounds, trains, electronic loops and oddly accented vocal lines with lush orchestrations for a resulting aural clutter that's as challenging to listen to as it must've been to create. In some places, it sounds like she tipped a china cabinet into the orchestra pit.
Interesting, but pretty weird, overall. At least she's consistent.
Track Listing
1.Overture
02.Cvalda
03.I've Seen It All
04.Scatterheart
05.In The Musicals
06.107 Steps
07.New World