Read
Interpreting Bjork

I approach this attempt by this "collective" of artists gathered under the name Read, to reinterpret some of Bjork's classics in a semi-acoustic way, stripping the songs of the strong electronic connotation that has characterized them, with suspicion and curiosity.

The songs, rearranged and reinterpreted in this way, are dressed in new colors and take on an unimaginable lightness and naturalness. A track like "It's Oh So Quiet" becomes less '50s swing, and more acoustic pop like the early Everything But The Girl or the latest Yo La Tengo. "Hyper-ballad" turns into a light and indolent bossa nova, "The Hunter" a slow and alluring song worthy of Kate Bush's best work, "Joga" an acoustic track with light and delicate guitar intertwining sounds played by the Kings of Convenience (while actually played by Ben Gibbard and Ben Barnett), "Human Behavior" is a splendid reinterpretation by the much-acclaimed The Decemberists who give it a psychedelic and combat-folk version.
There are still songs like "Possibly Maybe" which in the hands of the "Roots of Orchis," becomes an intangible ambient-derived Trip-hop, light and loose with a guitar arpeggio that weaves a sound fabric that is inconsistent in itself, or "Immature" which reworked by Peter Miser becomes a strange funky-soul with scratch and genre vocalizations (one of the most questionable episodes of the album). The album closes with "In the Musicals," which touches jazz fusion territories blending them wisely with touches of electronics.

In short, the project, although interesting, leaves me a bit perplexed and less enthusiastic in the end due to the fragmentation of the proposals and the lack of coherence between neo-acoustic flavored tracks and completely different things, funky or even fusion (?).

Is there a reason for all this or is it more of a mishmash of singers and groups chosen with little criteria and united only by their willingness to play a piece by our beloved Icelandic fairy?
The question is legitimate and the doubt is confirmed even in subsequent listens. Interesting project but halfway resolved.