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Rating: I remember that Björk in an interview given after the release of this album advised to look at the covers and read the lyrics of all her solo albums carefully to understand the stages of her professional and life journey.
Indeed, the image on the cover of this album strongly contrasts with that of the first two. Björk is a warrior who seems to have to defend the shy child that appears in Debut or the girl with the mischievously seductive look of Post.
In Homogenic, the moment of awareness and renewal that emerges after great suffering seems frozen in time.
What are the causes of this suffering? We don't know: perhaps a disappointment in love or having emerged from her so cocooned world, from her country (Björk is indeed famous worldwide by the time this album is released).
It's no coincidence that the album opens with Hunter "I'm going hunting / I'm the hunter... (you just didn't know me)..." who is the interlocutor? Who simply didn't know her?
Perhaps she herself didn't know herself, was immature: "How could I be so immature / to think he would replace / the missing elements in me..." now she knows she can find the strength, those "missing elements" only within herself.
From this inner journey comes a difficult album of great sound and vocal experimentation. Let's say that Homogenic is an obligatory passage for Björk to arrive at Vespertine, at that woman who is so confident in herself and her allure that she no longer even needs colors.
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