{"id":4226,"date":"2011-11-06T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T22:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T22:12:34","slug":"bjork-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/11\/bjork-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BJ\u00d6RK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-BJ\u00d6RK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4227\" title=\"M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-BJ\u00d6RK\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-BJ\u00d6RK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-BJ\u00d6RK.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-BJ\u00d6RK-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>B<\/strong><strong>J\u00d6RK <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Biophilia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Nonesuch]<\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s eighth solo release is not so much an album as the foundation of an ambitious multimedia project. Partly recorded on an iPad and released (in addition to traditional outlets) through 10 interactive apps, <em>Biophilia<\/em> boasts a lyrical thread drawing from biologist Edward O. Wilson\u2019s ideas about the connections that humans subconsciously seek with the life that surrounds them. By fusing African-derived rhythms, choirs and her own haunting voice with electronic sounds, newly created instruments and the use of the iPad and apps, Bj\u00f6rk here creates ethereal music with occasionally jagged techno edges. While the album opens with the otherworldly and simple \u201cMoon,\u201d with its warm wash of natural instruments, tracks such as \u201cHollow\u201d have a futuristic horror-movie queasiness\u2014but in her hands, even the more unsettling music carries a sense of hope. For all of the Icelandic singer-songwriter\u2019s technological experimentation, the most vital instrument on <em>Biophilia<\/em> is Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s open heart. \u2013Steve Matteo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJ\u00d6RK Biophilia [Nonesuch] Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s eighth solo release is not so much an album as the foundation of an ambitious multimedia project. Partly recorded on an iPad and released (in addition to traditional outlets) through 10 interactive apps, Biophilia boasts a lyrical thread drawing from biologist Edward O. Wilson\u2019s ideas about the connections that humans subconsciously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2638,2639,195,2615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}