Track Listing
1. Army of Me
2. Hyper-Ballad
3. Modern Things, The
4. It's Oh So Quiet
5. Enjoy
6. You've Been Flirting Again
7. Isobel
8. Possibly Maybe
9. I Miss You
10. Cover Me
11. Headphones
| Details | | Playing Time: | 46 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Einar Orn, Tricky | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Bjork (vocals, organ, keyboards); Jim Couza (hammered dulcimer); Rob Smissen (viola); Tony Pleeth (cello); Gary Barnacle (soprano saxophone); Maurice Murphy, Stuart Brooks, Einar Orn (trumpet); Guy Sigsworth (harpsichord); Tricky, Marius De Vries, Graham Massey (keyboards, programming); Talvin Singh (percussion); Lenny Franchi, Howie Bernstein (programming); Marcus Dravs (sound effects).
Producers: Bjork, Nellee Hooper, Graham Massey, Tricky, Howie Bernstein.
Engineers include: Al Fisch, Howie Bernstein, Steve Price.
Personnel: Bjork; Marius De Vries (programming).
Recording information: 1995.
POST, Bjork's second release as a solo artist, mines the fertile soil of the eclectic musical terrain of post-modern pop. The album throbs in and out of ambient cadences with techno beats, slips into showtune theatrics, then reels back to the dance floor.
With a full plate of sounds already on the table, Bjork adds her own unique flare to the presentation, proving she is not easily pigeonholed. The lyrically-insistent opener, "Army Of Me," is a relentless electronic grind that is typical of Bjork's vibe, but POST also digs into Western music's more organic resources. "It's Oh So Quiet" may be a remake of an old Hollywood showtune, but Bjork's version transcends the song's silver screen aloofness on the strength of her delightful screams ("Zing, BOOM!!/You fall in love"). It is directly followed by "Enjoy," a lurching hypnotic nod with musical help from British trip-hop MC, Tricky; and the smooth, Bee Gees-like orchestration of "Isobel," a swooning accompaniment to strobe light bongo drums which announces that the listener is no longer at a rave, but at a disco.
POST shows off Bjork's grasp of technology, history and basic pop aesthetics. Few modern rock albums have sampled so many different facets of the atypical buffet and have come up with such tasty results.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone (05/13/1999)
Tied for #7 in the 1996 Critics' Poll.
Rolling Stone (01/25/1996)
Ranked #48 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year.'
Melody Maker
Ranked #35 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.
NME
Recommended - ...sonically, it's DEBUT with the edges filed down...But...the joyful news from the front is that, below the suspect surface, there is lava...
Melody Maker (06/03/1995)
7 (out of 10) - ...a bit ethnic, extremely mysterious, a tad on the ooh-blimey-what-was-that??! side and a comprehensive summary of all that is good, grim and unnaturally groovy about one woman and her various mates' offbeat musical world...
NME (06/10/1995)
...the ex-Sugarcube finds a bizarre and irresistible connecting point between industrial-disco, ambient-trance, and catchy synth pop... - Rating: A+
Entertainment Weekly (06/23/1995)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...avoid[s] both the usual follow-up pitfalls of repetition and encroaching commerciality....she's still finding the room to embrace the often convoluted twists and turns of emotion...
Q (07/01/1995)
...The fluid textures fashioned by our heroine...have a subliminal resonance that might undermine a less assured performer, although its hard to imagine anything upstaging her...
Musician (08/01/1995)
8 - Very Good - ...Bjork is a bit more controlled this time around, so when she does let loose with the PSYCHO screams...her extremes pack more impact....Whether her accompaniment is punk guitars, disco beats, jazz horns, or symphonic strings, Bjork always comes across as her own wacky and seductively weird creation.
Spin (07/01/1995)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...POST comes up as victorious and gallant as any of her Viking forefathers. Chock-full of curious noises, mesmerizing vocals and musical surprises, POST provides a much-needed escape route from alternative rock's dull offerings of late...
Rolling Stone (06/29/1995)
Ranked #7 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Village Voice (02/20/1996)
Ranked #13 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '95.'
Spin (12/01/1995)
Ranked #7 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.
Spin (09/01/1999)
Ranked # 43 in Rolling Stone's Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums - ...[A] strange, affecting work...
Rolling Stone (10/31/2002)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...POST comes up as victorious and gallant as any of her Viking forefathers. Chock-full of curious noises, mesmerizing vocals and musical surprises, POST provides a much-needed escape route from alternative rock's dull offerings of late...
Rolling Stone (06/29/1995)
Ranked #53 in Mojo's 100 Modern Classics -- [B]old, cheeky, emotionally complex and musically ambitious.
Mojo
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