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:
This album went gold in Iceland. 40k in sales, which is like 10% of Iceland’s population.
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.
I wonder how many people skipped this because they don’t know who Björk Guðmundsdóttir is, as opposed to the famous singer Björk.