VOLTA
(One Little Indian)

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When it was revealed a few months back that Björk had roped in a wide array of international artists to work on her new album, including Lightning Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale and some experimental musicians from the Congo, one American music blog website headed their post, “New Björk album to further alienate core fanbase of college students engaging in dorm-room seduction.” And following on from her last releases, 2004’s vocal-only Medúlla, and her extremely inaccessible soundtrack album for husband Matthew Barney’s film Drawing Restraint 9, this news made sense.

Then it was announced that some of the tracks would feature contributions from Timbaland – the man who had recently wrapped up production duties with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado – and Björk’s record label boss said Volta was “probably the most commercial thing she’s ever done”.


So what mongrel beast has this disparate gang of collaborators spawned?