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If your days were as marked be experimentation and reinvention as Bjork‘s career has been, you’d probably find yourself with no fixed address and whatever friends you still maintained would think you endlessly fascinating if, occasionally, a little bit frightening.
It is to Bjork’s tremendous credit that the 46-year-old bolt of musical mercury with the singular voice has continued to push the boundaries of her sound without ever seeming out of step with the times, be they the present or the future only she can see. On bastards, Bjork collects a fantastic, varied array of atmospheric, ethereal remixes of songs from her 2011 album Biophilia, provided by au courant favorites Death Grips and Hudson Mohawke, electronic stalwart Matthew Herbert, art rockers These New Puritans, and Syrian musician Omar Souleyman, among others. The end result is haunting, occasionally ecstatic, and never boring.
Stream bastards below and look for it on One Little Indian (the label recently responsible for Cody Chesnutt‘s stellar Landing on a Hundred) on 11/19.
(Noisey)
