Although Ms. Gudmundsdottir ...

... Cymbals Eat Guitars is unlikely to come in contact with the New York indie band, then the peculiar name can use well for the Vita the Icelander. Originally, the name comes from yes a response from Lou Reed to the question of how the sound of Velvet Underground can be explained if you please - in this case it describes quite accurately the conversion Björk from the bustling frontwoman of Sugarcubes towards the dazzling work of art - only addition: The guitars are digested residue for a long time.

From the rather inconspicuous, puckish girl is well known, has become a public multidimensional come into appearance personality over the years - they are no longer known only as a singer, but also by movie theater, performance, as a fashion muse, wife of experimental filmmaker Matthew Barney and last but not least as a political activist. To the same extent, as she was the music of a principal equivalent to the sideline and the sound world for generated increasingly enigmatic and enraptured fell, but melted the number of those who are willing to follow her. As an artist can or must you be the matter alone for a musician it is at least questionable.

Is it because now the newest opus "Biophilia" without any cross-media bells and whistles on a conventional CD at all listen? Do I need to a dictionary, a program booklet, an instruction manual, a Facebook account? These questions are now not so completely out of thin air and some reacts, as was recently reported in a short replica of the Süddeutsche, it almost allergic and easily irritated Pofalla-duct. One thing is certain: Yes, you can "Biophilia" open up in a conventional manner, and: No, it does not hurt so much.

Sure, there are already some tests for the willing listener include - one feels a little on the hard consumable Darvin opera "Tomorrow, In A Year" by the Swedish siblings couple's The Knife recalls - the puffs and whimper for example that the dull roar of "Dark Matter" accompanied, or the deep gurgling of the organ pipes in "Hollow", which changes suddenly in a disturbing, shimmering beat. But it is not so, that Björk would finally adopted of melody and harmony, they hid it only better. The first two releases "Crystalline" and "virus" are at all Frickelei comparatively stringent pieces, the former with crispy breakbeats as Outro and the other even with Bonds on the tearjerker of the Western world by Sergio Leone.

Nevertheless, are concentration and effort on this record essential, it remains hard to digest and is good at any time as well-tempered backdrop. But whoever gets involved it may be construed as pay some surprises await - about the rough techno swing in "Mutual Core", the sound of thunder "Sacrifice" or the touching near "Cosmogony". Perhaps no album which is allowed to run on continuous loop to dissipate, fascinating remains of the cosmos, and the interpretation of these so idiosyncratic as unflinching wife all. mapambulo: blog