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I tend to think that there are only a handful of people on this planet who can absorb all that Bjork puts out – I am definitely not among them. But you can’t deny the beauty of what she does. “Bastards”, as the title implies, is the (illegitimate?) offspring or remixes of tracks from her 2011 “Biophilia” CD. That CD dealt with natural science, as well as a series of interactive iPad apps, with lyrics like “as fast as your fingernail grows/the Atlantic Ridge drifts” – not exactly make-out music. The remixes, with a degree of separation from the headiness of “Biophilia,” stands as a group of tunes that work on their own musical merits. The tracks are remixed by various artists, like Hudson Mohawke, Death Grips and Omar Souleyman, who takes “Crystalline” and “Thunderbolt” and puts her vocals over his own dabke music. If you like your music challenging, try this on for size. —SJA

I tend to think that there are only a handful of people on this planet who can absorb all that Bjork puts out – I am definitely not among them. But you can’t deny the beauty of what she does. “Bastards”, as the title implies, is the (illegitimate?) offspring or remixes of tracks from her 2011 “Biophilia” CD. That CD dealt with natural science, as well as a series of interactive iPad apps, with lyrics like “as fast as your fingernail grows/the Atlantic Ridge drifts” – not exactly make-out music. The remixes, with a degree of separation from the headiness of “Biophilia,” stands as a group of tunes that work on their own musical merits. The tracks are remixed by various artists, like Hudson Mohawke, Death Grips and Omar Souleyman, who takes “Crystalline” and “Thunderbolt” and puts her vocals over his own dabke music. If you like your music challenging, try this on for size. —SJA