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Björk’s last long-player,
Medúlla, split opinion in a fashion quite unlike any of its preceding album releases. The Icelandic avant-pop queen had taken a drastic sidestep, and not everyone in her audience was willing to follow her lead into the unknown.
The aforementioned last-long-player-proper, released in August 2004, was an experiment of sorts, an intentional distancing of its maker from her past work. Made entirely from vocal samples, some straight from the throat and others distorted through a sequence of electronic tricks and twists, the album was a far cry from the enveloping intimacy of
Vespertine, Björk’s album of 2001 which rightly topped DiS’s Our 66 poll last year – click here to see the run-down.