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90
To put it briefly, I’ll claim that Volta is Björk’s best album yet. It is the most perfect and the most immaculate, beyond any doubt in my mind.
83
Volta is a weird mess of an album, but it's also Björk's most approachable and immediate since Homogenic.
80
It’s an album defined by its identity crisis – dizzily slipping, as it does, from metal-electronica one moment to spooky chamber-pop the next.
80
This is no sidestep, despite the recalling of past achievements; it takes one step back to fly a dozen forward, and leaves the listener bewildered at its incredible execution.
80
Volta could very easily sound scattered, but this isn't the case. Instead, it finds the perfect balance between the vibrancy of her poppier work in the '90s and her experiments in the 2000s.
80
Volta is a hotch-potch, a heady brew of strange and unsettling ingredients hop-scotched around by an artist who, a decade and a half since launching her solo career, still sounds like no-one else.
80
There are no eargasms along the lines of "Hyperballad", "Bachelorette", or "5 Years", but the whole thing is agreeable.
80
Volta is a strong album with memorable, remarkable tracks that have great variety, so much that the album loses cohesion.
80
From icy beatings to warm brass, this is glacial disco at its best.
70
She channels that avant-trad feeling into the brassy arrangements, suitable for both a medieval Viking fortress or contemporary concert hall.
70
By no measure is Volta a great album, but it is quite good. And, the deeper you delve, the more it has to offer.
70
Volta is arguably Bjork's loosest and most ruminative record, and though it touches on everything she's ever done, it's not as gripping or coherent as her best stuff.
70
Every song on Volta sounds like it was birthed in no fewer than 10 months, if not five years.
58
Where even her most divisive albums have managed to push her artistic boundaries, Volta feels limp and strangely empty-- almost unfinished.
49
Volta is one of those pretty-bad records that may stick around, may sound better in a few years.
Great
I don't think this is her worst by any means. In fact, this album really wow's me with its instrumentation style. Much like Utopia, there's this aesthetic focused on one single instrument throughout the album. Utopia has the flutes, and Volta has the HORN SECTION. As a saxophone player, I appreciate the experimentation with notes and tones on the horn lines. It gives the music a warm and soft feeling on tracks with horns.
Color: Red
FAV TRACKS: The Dull Flame of Desire, Hope, Earth ... read more
I don't think this is her worst by any means. In fact, this album really wow's me with its instrumentation style. Much like Utopia, there's this aesthetic focused on one single instrument throughout the album. Utopia has the flutes, and Volta has the HORN SECTION. As a saxophone player, I appreciate the experimentation with notes and tones on the horn lines. It gives the music a warm and soft feeling on tracks with horns.
Color: Red
FAV TRACKS: The Dull Flame of Desire, Hope, Earth ... read more
i don't think this is her best album or one of the bests by any means. but it's not bad or average as some people says ...
actually, volta is in my opinion, a great album! there were a bunch of songs i like.
❤: earth intruders, wanderlust, the dull flame of desire, innocence, hope, declare independence.
actually, volta is in my opinion, a great album! there were a bunch of songs i like.
❤: earth intruders, wanderlust, the dull flame of desire, innocence, hope, declare independence.
a change in production for bjork, but for the better. volta shifted bjork from her traditional style to a sound that was more in the with modern times. she had her breathtaking vocals to back herself up, which helps a lot when youre the best singer of all time. at this point, its basically bjork doing what she does best, and thats why its a great album. there are a couple shortcomings, like the crazily messed up production on declare independence, but those can easily be overlooked by the ... read more
♫ Start your own... CURRENCY!
Make your own... STAMP!
Protect your language
(and trees, obviously) ♫
Make your own... STAMP!
Protect your language
(and trees, obviously) ♫
As easy and convenient it would be to just sit around and pretend that this album was good, I just can’t bring myself to do that.
It was okay... Some of the tracks were fine but a large and overwhelming handful of them were extremely messy and really irritating to my ears. I also fell asleep half way through the album so I had to start it over again which was awesome. It kinda sounds like Björk wanted the instrumentals to be as annoying and brain grating as possible. ... read more
It was okay... Some of the tracks were fine but a large and overwhelming handful of them were extremely messy and really irritating to my ears. I also fell asleep half way through the album so I had to start it over again which was awesome. It kinda sounds like Björk wanted the instrumentals to be as annoying and brain grating as possible. ... read more
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Track List
- Earth Intruders
- Wanderlust
- The Dull Flame Of Desire
- Innocence
- I See Who You Are
- Vertebrae By Vertebrae
- Pneumonia
- Hope
- Declare Independence
- My Juvenile
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Added on: June 14, 2011