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New Björk album Medúlla was released yesterday.

Björk is one of the artists whose albums I go and buy when they come out (there aren’t many whom I trust that much – CMX and Therion come to mind and Opeth has a chance to reach that stage..).

I got it today. It’s a strange album, starting with the leaflet and the track list on the back cover, which are printed in black on black (actually very dark gray, but a lot of light is required to notice it).

It doesn’t contain much musical instruments, and what there is is pretty simple. It’s made of human voices. The Icelandic Choir and Tagaq (inuit throat-singer) appear most often – and there’s two songs with only Björk as a performer.

It might take some listening to fully appreciate this one :-)