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Selmasongs: Music from the Motion Picture
12/05/2000 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Bob Gulla
Our favorite Icelandic auteur with the great right hook, Bjork keeps her fans off balance with another surprising creative endeavor, this time starring in and scoring the new film Dancer In The Dark. In the film, Bjork stars as Selma, a disillusioned Czech immigrant and single mother working in a factory in rural America. Her misery is soothed in part by her passion for music, specifically, the all-singing, all-dancing numbers found in classic Hollywood musicals.
Reflecting that plotline, the score, seven tracks in all, ranges from lush orchestral arrangements to typically-eccentric, Bjork-style pop. Bjork-obsessed fans hungry for more of the songwriter's customary eccentricities might be disappointed with the brief and thematic focus of the album. But there are still some enthralling moments, specifically the batty, Raymond Scott-style big band of "Cvalda" and the tender duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke, "I've Seen It All."
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