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Icelandic singer and songwriter Björk has recorded more than two hundred songs for ten studio albums, two soundtrack albums, a compilation album, six remix albums and three collaboration albums. She is the sole writer and producer of most of the songs included in her albums. She also sometimes plays instruments during her recording sessions.
Björk started her career after a recording of her rendition of Tina Charles' 1976 song "I Love to Love" became popular on Icelandic radio. Her first eponymous solo release , considered juvenilia , [ b ] was released under Fálkinn label in 1977.
The EP, totaling 41 minutes and 41 seconds in length, consists of six remixes of four different tracks from Björk's 1993 album Debut.The collection begins with the English electronic group Underworld's remix of "Human Behaviour", where, according to AllMusic's Neg Raggett, the swing "stutter" of the original recording's percussion is replaced by "crisp disco" beats and high tempo funk loops.
The Music from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 is the second soundtrack album by Björk, released on 25 July 2005 in the UK and on 23 August 2005 in the US. It was composed for Matthew Barney 's Drawing Restraint 9 , the ninth installment of his ongoing Drawing Restraint film series .
The artwork was designed by M/M Paris, whom Björk has worked extensively with since 1999's Volumen release. At the time of release many online stores displayed an incorrect earlier version of the artwork for the box set, which features alternate artwork for the Post Live and Homogenic Live albums.
Homogenic Live is a live album by Icelandic singer Björk, collecting her favorite performances from her 1997–1999 Homogenic tour.It was Björk's first tour to have soundboard recordings and thus the first of her live CDs to feature a wide variety of performances taken from different dates and venues throughout a single tour.
"Hyperballad" was lauded by music critics, who considered it the best song of Björk's career at the time. It entered the charts in Finland, Australia, United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom (where it was the last of three top ten hits from Post , after " Army of Me " and " It's Oh So Quiet ").
"It's in Our Hands" is a song by Icelandic singer Björk, released as the first and only single from her first greatest hits album Greatest Hits (2002). She wrote and co-produced it with Matmos. Musically, "It's in Our Hands" is an electronic song influenced by glitch music, abstract sounds, ambient, and synth-pop. The song received favorable ...