Homogenic
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Homogenic
Homogenic is the third studio album by Icelandic recording artist Bjork. It was released on 22 September 1997 in the United Kingdom by One Little Indian Records and in the United States by Elektra Records. Produced by Bjork, Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B, and Markus Dravs, the album marked the beginning a new style for the singer, focusing on similar-sounding music combining electronic beats and string instruments with songs in tribute to her native country Iceland. Homogenic was originally to be produced in her home in London, but was later recorded in Spain. It marked the first of several production collaborations between Bjork and Mark Bell, whom she would cite as a major influence on her musical career. -Wikipedia
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Homogenic
Homogenic embraced all of Björk’s most provocative contradictions. The main theme is the wish to rush headlong into a life lived to the fullest—an unbridled yearning for the sublime.
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Rolling Stone
Though she may look fragile from the outside, her fourth solo album, Homogenic, proves again that she’s as tough and enduring as an Icelandic lava field.
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Audioxide
Homogenic is, quite simply, a stunning work.
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SPIN
Three times on Homogenic, Björk dips a toe into the warm lake of tradition, but she always proceeds according to her own notions of disjointed space and passion . . .
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All Music
Homogenic is her most holistic work. While it might not represent every side of Björk's music, Homogenic displays some of her most impressive heights.
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Stereogum
Homogenic has endured — partly because it’s a masterpiece, and partly because it’s been, in its own way, influential.
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The Guardian
I was drawn to Homogenic for a reason I couldn't fathom at that time, but it represented escapism, alien emotions and a route through which I could make discoveries of my own.
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Slant Magazine
Homogenic is a rare feat in that it’s as visceral and physical an experience as it is intellectual and emotional. Its lyrics and music are as accomplished as its production is forward thinking. If not the greatest electronic album of all time, it’s certainly the greatest of its decade.
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Sputnik Music
The soft distortion fills you up.
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Mr. Miniike's Tea-Sipping Reviews
The songwriting on this album gets a lot of flak for its heavy reliance on repetitive codas, but the choruses that get repeated are often so jaw-droppingly powerful that I wish they could go on forever.
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Albumism
Appropriate qualifiers to define the sounds of Homogenic can only fall on the shoulders of words like exhilarating and astonishing. Again, Homogenic is not Debut or Post, but all three records share an obdurate creative essence that join these records as a pop triptych that’s still untouched.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
It is easier to see Homogenic as the backbone for the future of music. Björk is so far ahead of time, who knows when this backbone can be built on, but at least we have something to look forward to. By the looks of it so far, music has never looked so hopeful.
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XS Noize
There can be no doubt that the cathartic Homogenic should be considered a masterwork among Bjork’s many; happy 20th Anniversary to a brilliant creation and creator.
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Music Tech
It was Homegenic which cemented Björk as a fearless explorer of new musical frontiers. By merging organic instrumentation with electronic to create an album so richly rewarding, Björk proved to the world that she was quite a unique artist to be reckoned with.
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Dead Spin
And, oh, God, the wonders of that voice. She speaks, she chants, she howls, she snarls, she screams, and she travels effortlessly and purposefully from one mode to the next. Few artists can make this seem so easy, and fewer still can freight their virtuosity with so much meaning.
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Heat Rocks
Homogenic . . . mark[s] a hard turn from the more pop-friendly sounds of Post towards a new, baroque, electronic majesty.
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positivelyunderground
Bjork’s third full-length saw the combination of her iconic vocal mannerisms with an equally potent electro-acoustic instrumental pallet, a bit more focussed than her sophomore LP. The album is relentlessly icy as electronic beats and soaring strings both underpin the ridiculous passion with which Bjork delivers each line.
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MTV
Damn, Bjork really hit the nail on its head this time. Homogenic is some really sick shit, I tell ya. By sick, I mean this music sounds like it's dying, but in a beautiful way, like if the image of rapidly generating cancerous cells could be magnified to create an awesome psychedelic light show...
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The Quietus
Björk’s third album, a regrouping after the dizzying rush of new experiences captured by Debut and Post, is where she really sets out her stall as a solo artist.
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Bats Are Not Bugs
Homogenic made me want to jump back into the album and look for all the themes and elements Mackay touched upon in her book as well as look for other things I might have missed. Fans of Bjork will really enjoy this and Homogenic is one of the stronger entries in the series.
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Beats Per Minute
What this all adds up to is an album that represents Björk at her most artistically tangible; a record perfectly suited to her strangeness that manages the impossible task of playing to her strengths and eliminating her weaknesses.
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AV Music Club
Homogenic is stylish enough, and it's as restlessly creative as you'd expect, but the album rarely gives Björk's songs a chance to assert themselves.
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SF Weekly
For an album that only spans 10 tracks, Homogenic covers a lot of ground.
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Treble Zine
Björk achieved peak poignancy and innovation with 1997′s Homogenic
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Diffuser
Björk Becomes an Electronic Warrior on 'Homogenic'
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W.L. Swartz Reviews the Universe
Even her best poetry on Homogenic is undermined by either the vocals or musical presentation (usually production elements that seek to make the sound of each song unnecessarily complex).
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BOL
Certainly one of Björk's best albums. Every song is great in its own way.
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Crack Magazine
Twenty years after its release and still there are few albums as ambitious and fully realised as Homogenic.
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Record Collector
A scholarly but thoroughly readable analysis ... Strongest of all are the in-depth dissections of Homogenic's heady blend of patriotism and cosmopolitanism, the traditional and tech savvy, nature and technology.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
'Homogenic' sold well enough, but not at the level 'Post' did and marked a turning point in her career, away from the mainstream towards wilfully challenging both critics and her audience. 'Homogenic' however is where she got everything right. 9/10 stars.
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The Irish Times
Bold, brave and adventurous, Homogenic was Björk forging a new way of doing things with electronic music.
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North Tide Press
Not only is it the forefather of so many experimental albums you gave your time to over the last few years, it’s a cult masterpiece that everybody, regardless of how deeply you’ve explored music, should listen to at least once in their lives.
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Chicago Tribune
Bjork's latest album "Homogenic" is her best work to date. A gorgeous cosmopolitan cocktail of jazz, classical and techno ingredients, "Homogenic's" compositions are held together by Bjork's wildly expressive voice, which she wields with the instincts of a jazz soloist.
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Classical Album Sundays
Homogenic . . . shows a defiant yet exquisite warrior princess, one who is committed to and will defend her art no matter what life throws in her way.
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