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Oct 7, 2011Biophilia is one of Bjork's best and most challenging records; it's in a galaxy all its own, one that's not for the faint of heart.
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Oct 6, 2011It's surprisingly accessible, hypnotic and beautiful if you give it time and concentration.
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Oct 5, 2011The singer's greatest strength remains the glistening natural resource flowing from her throat.
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Nov 15, 2011Biophilia is an excellent addition to her glorious discography.
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Oct 11, 2011Biophilia the "Bjork album" stands with the best of them.
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Oct 10, 2011It is that rarest of things, a record so particular to Björk's own artistry that no-one could ever hope to replicate it.
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Oct 7, 2011Though Biophilia is hardly easy listening, even by Bjork's challenging, outlandish standards, there's little doubting it'll stand as one of the more rewarding albums of her storied career.
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Oct 5, 2011It's a mesmerising album which confirms that Björk can weave dumfounding wonders from Silly String--whatever's placed before her, she can turn to her advantage, taking her audience on a trip the likes of which no other contemporary artist is capable of planning, let alone embarking on. In a word: amazing.
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Oct 5, 2011This music really doesn't need any window dressing because it's as good a collection of songs as she has put her name to in ten years.
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Oct 13, 2011Biophilia is Björk, the sum total, and this album is her continued claim to the throne as the monarch of avant-pop.
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Oct 11, 2011More than anything else, it makes you think.
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Oct 14, 2011The challenging but exceedingly rewarding Biophilia is at its heart a deeply moving, mind-expanding tribute to how that most ineffable of human achievements.
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Nov 1, 2011Biophilia is a delicate and highly tactile treat, a unique gem of innovation (pipe organs driven by computers, the mallet-tickled gameleste) and gentle real soul whose breathy endearing heights Bjork hasn't touched in a minute.
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UncutOct 18, 2011You may not be whistling these songs or dancing to them, but Biophilia's unsettling visions are compelling art. Oct 2011, p.92]
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Oct 13, 2011Educational and emotional in a uniquely approachable way, these songs are a lovely part of a bigger picture.
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Oct 12, 2011Nothing here is complex or highbrow, but instead filled with the joy and clarity of understanding and connecting.
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Oct 11, 2011There's not a lot of replay value in Björk's new mode, but it still works humbly well and the computer visuals go a long way toward expanding on the fragile, chamber orchestra feel of the music.
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Oct 11, 2011When Bjork's supernatural voice soars in "Thunderbolt"--"Craving miracles"--soul easily trumps software.
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Oct 10, 2011From the ashes of Volta, an album that occasionally felt like a career-killer, has come an album of startling beauty, furious invention, and inviting, warm atmosphere.
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Oct 10, 2011Biophilia is no clever-clever cacophony. Like the natural world from which it draws inspiration, the album has structure and convention. And there is always the anchor of Björk's voice and her words, which conjoin emotional forces and elemental processes.
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Oct 10, 2011Much of Biophilia holds you rapt because of the painstaking details.
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Oct 7, 2011Whatever happens with the technology and wherever the arguments over music, art and commerce drag themselves to next, it's these songs that are the triumph here.
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Oct 6, 2011It's certainly restless and innovative, but Biophilia never feels like hard work, however much the accompanying bumf tries to convince you it is.
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MojoOct 5, 2011Even when she blinds her audience wit science, though, Bjork's vision remains remarkable. [Oct 2011, p.97]
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Oct 5, 2011Whilst the musical content here is unlikely to shock or surprise Bjork's loyal admirers, it sees her continue to pursue her own radical and individual path with unshakeable conviction.
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Q MagazineOct 5, 2011Biophilia is a wonderful record in the most literal sense; it overflows with wonder. [Oct 2011, p.111]
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Oct 6, 2011At the heart of it though, we're still left with what's Björk's been doing for most her whole life: music.
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Oct 5, 2011It's a grower--don't go in without some time to invest, or the desire to listen multiple times and peel apart these lavishly constructed layers.
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Oct 11, 2011While I'm not convinced Biophilia overcomes the slump as an album, every song has something going for it.
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Oct 10, 2011It finds the singer in meditative mood--this is, by some distance, the least playful Björk album--and, amid soundscapes made from tinkling harps and bells and deep electronic burps and farts, she's an uncharacteristically discreet presence, a humble narrator of the wider story she's trying to tell.
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Oct 10, 2011As much as the last four or so tracks do to redeem what is too often a failed and overly formal experiment in hyper-theoretical songcraft, the insoluble problem of Biophilia is that Björk has chosen to inflate what is ultimately one of her least essential musical statements to such spectacular proportions.
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Oct 13, 2011As an innovator, she's as vibrant as ever, but as a songwriter, she sounds tired.
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Positive: 257 out of 311
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Mixed: 28 out of 311
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Negative: 26 out of 311
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