''Bastards'' is the third remix album by

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

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Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public per ...

, it was released on 19 November 2012. The album features remixes of tracks from her seventh studio album, '' Biophilia'' (2011). All of the remixes were previously released on '' The Crystalline Series'' or the ''Biophilia'' Remix Series, and they were all remastered by

Mandy Parnell Mandy Parnell is a British mastering engineer and founder of Black Saloon Studios in London, England, where she serves as the senior mastering engineer. Parnell has worked on projects with a wide variety of artists, including Aphex Twin, Bjork, ...

Background

Although all tracks had already been released, Björk "felt it important to gather together the essence of the remixes" so she "picked a quarter of them for one CD for people who are perhaps not too sassy icdownloaders or don't have the time or energy to partake in the hunter-gathering rituals of the internet". The cover features the 'strata' persona Björk adopted for the " Mutual Core" music video which was directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

Track listing

Sample credits * "Mutual Core" (These New Puritans Remix featuring Solomon Islands Song) includes samples from the traditional composition "Funeral Song (Solomon Islands 1978)", as extracted from the album ''Spirit of Melanesia'' by

David Fanshawe David Arthur Fanshawe (19 April 1942 – 5 July 2010) was an English composer and self-styled explorer with a fervent interest in world music.''The Times'' obituary 9 July 2010. His best-known composition is the 1972 choral work '' African Sanct ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bastards (Bjork album) 2012 remix albums Björk remix albums One Little Independent Records albums Polydor Records albums Albums produced by Hudson Mohawke Albums produced by Mark Bell (British musician) Albums produced by Björk