Björk - 'Biophilia'
The 18th-century poet and artist William Blake once wrote, “Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death.” Blake was a controversial figure who rejected organised religion, but in his art and writing he yearned to find a sense of...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week
1. Bjork – ‘Crystalline’ With Radiohead delivering their albums by electronic carrier pigeon and Kaiser Chiefs turning their fans into label bosses, Björk has gone one step further with her forthcoming seventh album, ‘Biophilia’,...
Bjork featuring Thom Yorke
Difficult, to say the least. Of course, what with the king and queen of ‘challenging’ teaming up, this was never gonna be singalong pub rock. But really: kettle drums clatter out an off-kilter rhythm, synths whirr and Björk yelps in...
Bjork
Sonically coming off like a Warp record remixed by that salty voiced robot from the Short Circuit films, ‘Declare Independence’ is Björk battering into the next world. With the same lo-fi electro declaration that birthed the likes of Kap...
Björk: Volta
Among the barren musical wasteland of 1993, Icelandic punk pixie Björk was utterly unique, inventive and engrossing. ‘Debut’, her first solo album following the split of her group The Sugarcubes, simply devoured the competition with its...
Bjork
What’s that coming over the hill? Bloody hell, it’s the human race swallowing up the earth like a virus to a brutalised tom-tom beat! And who’s that floating above it all, emitting her primordial, husky Icelandic wail? It’s bloody Björk!...
Bjork: Vespertine
Time, then, to put away childish things. Like any concession to earthly melody or conventional vocal phrasing. Any last vestige of song structure. Any lingering foothold in clubland. Pop’s last white witch has packed up her pop tent and stolen...
Bjork : London Shepherd's Bush Empire
May 27 2003 Bjork drifts across the cosmos, white yarn unravelling from a hole in her back. How Scandinavian of her. She looks thirty feet long. She is thirty feet long: beamed up on the backdrop while her mini, real self cavorts below in...
Bjork : It's In Our Hands
AAARRGGHH! Not content with having relentlessly taken English vowel sounds to places they should never have to go over an exhausting ten year solo career (greatest hits out now, yodelling fans!) the Amelie of indie-pop returns with a bleeping...
Bjork : Greatest Hits
She probably couldn't care less, but Britain, you sense, has never taken Bjork entirely seriously. Okay, she's had a South Bank Show, but from Spitting Image's (hilarious) Bjork /fax machine sketch to the press' (pathetic) tendency to depict...
