Debut
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Debut
Debut is the second studio album by Icelandic recording artist Bjork, released in July 1993 by One Little Indian and Elektra Records. It was produced by Bjork with artist Nellee Hooper. It was Bjork's first recording following the dissolution of her previous band, the Sugarcubes. The album departed from the rock style of her previous work and drew from an eclectic variety of styles, including electronic pop, house music, jazz and trip hop. -Wikipedia
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The Guardian
If the point of a debut album is to set out an artist's stall and to lay the foundations for what's to come then Debut does this better than any album in recent memory. It's an album whose influence is still felt any time electronic instrumentation is fused with folk or jazz, or whenever a new female singer is described as "kooky" or "refreshing".
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All Music
Debut not only announced Björk's remarkable talent; it suggested she had even more to offer.
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Stereogum
Listening to Debut now, I wish Björk could find some way to reconnect to that thump, or to its 2013 equivalent. (Trap-rave, I guess? This could also be awful.) So it’s good for Björk that Debut came out when it did. And it’s good for us, too.
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Rolling Stone
Rather than sticking to rock & roll, Debut is painfully eclectic. On “Come to Me” and “Venus as a Boy” Björk adds not just a string section but an entire orchestra from India. It’s more intrusive than galvanizing. Likewise, on the jazz standard “Like Someone in Love,” Björk is accompanied by a harp — not the kind Little Walter played. Only on the opening track, “Human Behavior,” do we get a glimmer of what the fuss was all about.
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Albumism
Twenty-five years later, Debut is still the infectious bundle of creative joy it was when it was first released. Put it on now. I dare you not dance.
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Sputnik Music
I highly recommend Debut to anyone who hasn’t already heard it, and it is an album I am sure I will return to time and time again.
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Mr. Miniike's Tea-Sipping Reviews
My gut feeling is to give this album a transcendent score, add it to my personal top 10, and move on. But since I’m now absolutely fixated on hearing everything Björk has ever put out, I’ll hold off on it until I’m more fully aware of this album’s quality within the larger context of her career and output. Still, no promises I won’t come back to this one bump it up to a 10+. This is the most lovable album I’ve heard in a long, long, LONG time.
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XS Noize
Debut is one of the most successful launches of a solo career in recent contemporary music history.
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Idolator
This month, the ex-Sugarcube and high priestess of art-pop celebrates two decades of musical innovation as the highly influential Debut turns 20. That said, in spite of its advancing age, Debut’s futurism has aged exquisitely.
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Billboard
Debut marks the expansive beginnings to one of the most exciting careers in modern music, while lobbing bombs on the dance floor and throwing anchors into the depths of your heart.
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Classic Pop Magazine
With its trip-hop beats, cascading strings and a soaring vocal from Björk, the song’s success was particularly gratifying as film soundtracks had been the catalyst for her pick-and-mix approach to Debut.
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The Student Playlist
Debut is a technical feat as well as a creative one, planting and hinting at the future conceptual crazes that Björk explores in her later albums with a blend of jazz, house and electronica, moulded by her classically trained brain yet also informed by her enthusiasm for the peculiar and the extreme.
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Audioxide
Debut stands out as the most playful, entertaining and jubilant in her entire career.
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Rock and Roll Globe
A quarter century later, Björk’s genre-defying solo debut defies its original critics to become a top 90s classic with which the world is only just catching up.
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The Quietus
Debut had found 1993’s sweet spot, a confluence of pop, dance, indie, jazz and whatever else Björk could throw in the mix.
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The Current
Today in 1993, Bjork released her first post-Sugarcubes solo album, titled Debut. Featuring the tracks "Human Behaviour" and "Big Time Sensuality," it set the stage for her rise as a solo star.
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SPIN
Debut’s avant-pop fusion of house, jazz, and Eastern instrumentation remains potent, and the wild-eyed enthusiasm that Björk brings to the songs is without peer.
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Regan Raves
More than anything, it's just a pleasure to listen to Björk's unique and timeless voice and vocal approach. You can shut off all the instrumentation here and listen to only her voice, and it's still a great record. The fact that the songwriting is so good is just a cherry on top. Let's give Nellee Hooper some credit, too.
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Daily Vault
Debut ensured that Bjork would have a career that would far outlast The Sugarcubes. In addition, the album was the first of three flat-out classic releases from Bjork. Perhaps the most important accomplishment of Debut was its brought a world of imagination into the world of electronica. The human heart and the hard drive no longer seemed incompatible.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
It's far less percussive than most of what came next, but everything she'd ever be is still here somehow. 'Like Someone In Love' would strongly point to what happened immediately next yet the likes of 'Human Behaviour' spans her entire musical timeline.
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Bjork Discography Review
Not a very good part of Bjork's career.
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