If there is one tune on this planet that captures being autistic it has to be Björk’s Hyperballad. Okay, I live on a hill and not a mountain but whilst view is beautiful there is no pile of car parts, bottles and cutlery at the bottom of our garden steps (although Hubbell’s keen on his collection of clothes pegs). Instead, there’s a pile of my … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Björk
Take a moment to ask her a question and let her answer linger in your mind for hours. Yep Björk is on the interview trail again as she gets set to release her ninth studio album and all is good with the world. Her conversation with Lauren Laverne, filled with tales of Attenborough, Utopia, her childhood desire to be a DJ, swimming with choirs and ideas … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Björk, Björk and more Björk
Forever opening the door to creativity in music and vision, Björk has returned and the goosebumps she generates are as pronouced as ever as she delivers yet another captivating chapter in her forever charming career. No other artist connects like she does and with her latest single The Gate and its spellbinding video, directed by long-time collaborator Andrew Thomas Huang, with creative direction by Björk (who wears … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Björk opens The Gate to Utopia
Nothing diminishes my adoration for this lass. She gets better and better and better. Even if she does my the cats ears do weird things. And so she proved yet again this week on Jools Holland with a performance fuelled with pure joy. She’s the kind of addiction I love in others, seeing them in a new ‘girl you have taste’ light, appreciative as they … Continue reading Perfect Distractions: The beautifullest love for Bjork
Life would not be the same without the beauty of Bjork. No matter what she does to my cats sensitive hearing, I love her. As I plough through promo downloads of the worst kind, desperate to find a diamond in the dross, Bjork reminds me of the reasons music is the answer. It may not always be the easiest of answers but boy is it … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: 26.07.11 Bjork ‘Crystalline’ Directed by Michel Gondry
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