Björk "Debut"

Are you looking for an album that tears the ground under your feet at the same time as you're tripping away to other dimensions were you're flying away with angel-wings to the moon and from there hear the tones as they're melting to a river of tears that floats out into a huge emotive ocean? Buy this album, then. Believe me, it will not disappoint you. I'm so sure on that point I'll pay you back the money you spent on it if you really don't like it after all (just kidding). Only someone who only likes guitar-driven rock or something like that can avoid to get completely stuck after listening to Björk's solo-stuff. This is the kind of album you should buy two copies off. One copy to listen to and one copy to put a frame around and nail up on the wall.

Short descriptions of every track:

1. "Human behaviour"

The album's opening track exists as some strange kind of weird underground-pop. This was also the album's first single and it's played all the way by keyboards. The melody is very "björky" but Björk's vocalizations sounds unusually whining. But I won't you to notice that that doesn't mean that the vocalizations are bad. No, I like this track very much (and also the video) and I think it was a good idea to put this one out as a single.

2. "Crying"

This track sounds a little bit more easy to masticate than the opening track. It has got some jazz and club-influences and it's played all the way on a piano. Björk's vocalizations are really great on this track! The melody is a little bit easier to "sing along with" than the melody of "Human behaviour". There are some special effects played on keyboard that follows the piano along the way and in the end it breaks out into the world's greatest faked guitar-solo. "Crying" is also a really good song.

3. "Venus as a boy"

A beautiful, beautiful, dream-like song that makes the listener ecstatic.

4. "There's more to life than this" (Recorded live at Milkbar toilets)

It really was a funny idea to record a track live at a Milkbar toilet but unfortunately the song is not very good. It sounds like what disco/dance-tracks usually sounds like and that means not too exciting.

5. "Like someone in love"

A cover of a well-known oldie. It starts with Björk singing alone with harp-player Corky Hale but suddenly it bursts out into another grateful string-arrangement. It really is a unique track much because of Björk's vocalizations. It's not often an artist is engaging him or herself so much in a song and it really is great to hear that Björk is doing it.

6. "Big time sensuality"

This is the track with biggest chances to become a radio-hit. It sounds surprisingly much like usual euro-pop but there are some differences. No euro-pop-singer can possibly sing the highest tone in this song and make it sound clean the way Björk does. She really is a fantastic singer and you notice that in this song.

7. "One day"

A very "björky" ballad played almost all the way by keyboards. The melody is brilliant, especially the chorus. Björk is a fantastic chorus-creator, something you notice plenty of times on this album. It ends up with a horn-solo that matches Björk's voice incredibly well. To say it short: This is a good song!

8. "Aeroplane"

This is one of my favorite-tracks on this album. It gives us an incredible theme-work between Björk's voice, a wind-quartet and some synthesized special-effects. A theme-work that has turned out very well even if it might sound crazy to combine those three subjects to each other. There is not a melody on this album that isn't well composed and that goes for this track too. The melody is great.

9. "Come to me"

This is my absolute favorite-track on this album! Grateful string-arrangements, the best melody the album gives us and of course Björk's voice! No-one, R.E.M. included has ever written a better ballad!

10. "Violently happy"

One thing that's impressing with this album is all the categorizes it passes through. At this track, Björk's making rough techno. Even if it has got a title that's full of overjoy is the melody very sad.

11. "The anchor song"

Björk together with another wind-quartet in a very harmonic song. It really is a good track though there's a lot of instruments missing.

12. "Play dead"

The most emotive song you'll find on this album with the undoubtedly most grateful string-arrangement you'll find on this album. Björk is screaming and groaning and really engaging herself into this song. Compared to the rest of the tracks it sounds a little bit sad and angst-ridden but it truly is a beautiful masterpiece.