The album was recorded during Björk's time in The Sugarcubes. Six or seven of the original fourteen songs are jazz standards, but sung in Icelandic; plus the two live bonus tracks at the end are straightforward covers in English.

Björk and the band also looked pretty lively:

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[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This album went gold in Iceland. 40k in sales, which is like 10% of Iceland's population.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

For a country with population smaller than my hometown which is considered backwater by our standards, it's remarkable that Iceland afaik had pretty good alternative culture: like the whole punk/new-wave scene, with entire festivals.

I've also heard it said, perhaps jokingly, that like half of Iceland's population have written a book.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I wonder how many people skipped this because they don't know who Björk Guðmundsdóttir is, as opposed to the famous singer Björk.