Bjork set to release eighth solo album
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Avant garde Icelandic singer/songwriter/actress Bjork has put the finishing touches on Voltaic, her eighth solo release and the seventh since she parted ways with the Sugarcubes.
NPR music is offering sneak previews of some of the material on its music website.
(photo courtesy of the Associated Press/Jacques Brinon)
Bjork has always been hard to pin down musicially, as she borrows from a broad and sometiimes unusual range of genres. But she’s always been blessed with a remarkable vocal range that has brought her acclaim and fame in the past — and not just in her native Iceland.
She released her first self-titled solo album in 1977, and went on to front the Sugarcubes from 1986 until the band’s split in 1992.
She has since been recording pretty regularly and occasionally making the Paparazzi happy with a bizarre wardrobe or some unusual behavior.
But she’s always unmistakably Bjork, and her music is clearly her own. Not many artists can say that.
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