BJORK – Medúlla

"So, then comes Medúlla, where she stops using her string orchestras, celestas and harps completely. Almost the only thing heard on the album is the human voice. Sampled, recreated, layered, manipulated, but even in its most electronic manifestations, it all sounds very laryngeal. Not as one larynx, though, because Björk has attracted an impressive list of guest vocalists on the album. Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq breathes and growls rhythmically, Mike Patton does some of his most positively evil-sounding voices, and beat boxers Rahzel and Dokaka provide two very different cultural types of urban beats.Because of these guest vocalists it’s hard to describe exactly what kind of a genre Medúlla should belong to: it’s tribal, it’s urban, at times virtually sacred but overall it is very experimental. Indeed, the album may be better put into a category with Stockhausen’s Stimmung or Meredith Monk’s work in its untameable audacity.That’s not to say this is as acquired a taste as Stockhaus