Coincidence or not, last September three major singers from the alternative arena - Bjork, Tori Amos and Feist - released their new records almost at the same time. Bjork and Feist were off since 2007, and Tori since 2009. Feist brought something lovely; Tori brought something sweet; and Bjork, well, she brought Biophilia, something in fact new.
It can be said that the first app album came from Iceland. Always observing what occurs in the technological arena, Bjork, in collaboration with Apple, created a ipad version for the cd, in which each song has an app related to it. The app allows people to interect and play with the song themes. There are ten songs - some of them composed on a tablet computer - with lyrics approaching nature as a metaphor for human nature, both in physical and psychological aspects. Musically, the cd slightly resembles Medulla, Bjork's album from 2004; though the strong and rough beats and electronic effects, it is Bjork's voice that guides each song's flow. While Bjork opted for a technological evolution, with Night of Hunters Tori Amos preferred to stay close to what made she who she is - the piano, the high quality verses, the gorgeous melodies -, although opting for a slight change, focusing this time on a more classical approach. It is her first record under a classical label, Deutsche Grammophon Records. Tori has been flirting with classical music for some time, but it seems like her interest got stronger since her presentation with the Metropole Orchestra in Amsterda, in 2010. Night of Hunters is a concept album - Tori Amos really likes it; Through classical cycle adaptations, like Chopin and Schubert, among others, Tori tells the story of a young woman who just finished a long relationship and go through a night trip to witness her previous relationship incarnation and find out within her the hunter and the hunted. A new thematic for a woman that build her career on strong Christianity criticism. The highlights are not just the beautiful and lovely melodies, but, above all, Tori amos' voice, which gets better and better with the passing of time. Metals, by Feist, is a rcord that carries a delicate responsibility: It is her first work since The Reminder, an album that kicked her career worldwide. And Feist managed to beat her previous work. Metals presents simple and reflexive lyrics basically about human relationships, lyrics that came up from a careful observation of the empty, the nature, the nowhere. Musically, Metals is a more rock oriented work, with rougher eletric guitars, pointing to a confortable Feist, lighter, loose, who achieves an incredible balance - stronger beats join her sweet and tender voice, as to produce a disquieting archive which never loses the tone. These girls took a long break, but, coincidence or not, Bjork, Tori amos and Feist were able to offer with their actual albums a product with a quality higher than that of their previous works. Maybe time has helped.
face book: Leonardo Romanov
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