Björk
Army Of Me: Remixes And Covers

THE REVIEW

After the release of "Medúlla," the absolute masterpiece of the Icelandic witch, and before the extremely underrated soundtrack "Drawing Restraint 9," this album was released in which Madame Betulla finds time to do charity, providing a parade of very different and poignant sounds.

She then calls upon little-known musicians from the most diverse genres to remix or reinterpret "Army Of Me," one of the artist's most famous and aggressive tracks, in which Bjork protests against apathy over a metallic rhythm that sounds like Led Zeppelin remixed by Aphex Twin. The result of the project is truly sensationa and disorienting: it practically contains the history of music, where "Army Of Me" is destroyed or rebuilt according to opposing and contrasting musical fields: from the metal of Interzone, to the Linkin Park style crossover of Random, passing through the easy listening of Grisbi, to classical music, to experimental electronica, reaching with dance, a cappella, chamber electronica, glitch-pop, hard rock, country... "Army Of Me" is a secret chest, where you can obtain sounds coming from unknown worlds, never too cryptic but not banal either: each track is different from the next, and each step is an explosion of creativity (consider the beautiful and joyful video game remix by Tor Bruce, so full of ideas that it doesn't even sound like "Army Of Me")...

You dance, you dream, you get scared, you're enchanted... practically an album right for every occasion, with completely different emotions, an album that can please everyone in its heterogeneity, perhaps ambitious, but certainly a masterpiece to be rediscovered in Miss Gudmundsdottir's discography. As usual, the little Icelander has hit the mark...