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BJORK
Vespertine
Elektra Records
www.bjork.com
Aided by sonic surgeons Matmos, a close circle of programmers and classical musicians, Bjork, the professional sleepyhead, floats her lullaby fantasies of "Vespertine" on a sea of music boxes and
the splashing accents of plucked strings. Harp, violin and clavichord are augmented by soft, subliminal bleeps and swooping icy choruses whose presence is best felt when they are first removed. Quaint and quirky
"Vespertine" plays like Kate Bush's baby sister, a disc of whimsical flights and dark rummaging instincts, an aural garden with the transience of watercolors and the substance of ghosts. Eerily innocent
and overpoweringly surreal, this theater of sound is more subtle than Bjork's previous work, but no less masterful or enigmatic. Bjork with Matmos play Chicago's Civic Opera House on October 14th.
John Noyd
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