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95年リリース作『POST』がカセットテープ・リリース!!

その歌声で世界に衝撃を与えたオルタナティヴ・ディーヴァ、BJORKの1995年リリース作『POST』がカセットテープ・フォーマットで登場! テクノ/トリップ・ホップ系のクリエイター達とのコラボレイトした傑作です。

Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.140) - Ranked # 43 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" - "...[A] strange, affecting work..." Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.61) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Rolling Stone (1/25/96, p.41) - Tied for #7 in the 1996 Critics' Poll. Rolling Stone (6/29/95, pp.41-42) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...POST comes up as victorious and gallant as any of her Viking forefathers. Chock-full of curious noises, mesmerizing vocals and musical surprises, POST provides a much-needed escape route from alternative rock's dull offerings of late..." Spin (9/99, pp.120-1) - Ranked #7 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Spin (12/95, p.63) - Ranked #13 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '95.' Spin (7/95, p.72) - 8 - Very Good - "...Bjork is a bit more controlled this time around, so when she does let loose with the PSYCHO screams...her extremes pack more impact....Whether her accompaniment is punk guitars, disco beats, jazz horns, or symphonic strings, Bjork always comes across as her own wacky and seductively weird creation." Entertainment Weekly (6/23/95, p.55) - "...the ex-Sugarcube finds a bizarre and irresistible connecting point between industrial-disco, ambient-trance, and catchy synth pop..." - Rating: A+ Q (7/95, p.114) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...avoid[s] both the usual follow-up pitfalls of repetition and encroaching commerciality....she's still finding the room to embrace the often convoluted twists and turns of emotion..." Vibe (12/99, p.162) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century Melody Maker (12/23-30/95, pp.66-67) - Ranked #48 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year.' Melody Maker (6/3/95, p.35) - Recommended - "...sonically, it's DEBUT with the edges filed down...But...the joyful news from the front is that, below the suspect surface, there is lava..." Musician (8/95, p.85) - "...The fluid textures fashioned by our heroine...have a subliminal resonance that might undermine a less assured performer, although its hard to imagine anything upstaging her..." Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #7 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Mojo (Publisher) (p.60) - Ranked #53 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[B]old, cheeky, emotionally complex and musically ambitious." NME (Magazine) (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23) - Ranked #35 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995. NME (Magazine) (6/10/95, p.46) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a bit ethnic, extremely mysterious, a tad on the ooh-blimey-what-was-that??! side and a comprehensive summary of all that is good, grim and unnaturally groovy about one woman and her various mates' offbeat musical world..."

ファーストに続く、ダンス・ミュージックとトラッド調の二面性に加え､テクノあり、ビックバンド・ジャズ調ありとさらに多面的なサウンドを立体的に構成。90年代のポップ・ミュージックの概念を飛躍的に拡張させた重要作。 (C)rosy