I heard Rosalía for the first timeon the 2026 Brit Award show where sheperformed “Berghain” with a guest appearance from Björk. Maybe the secondtime on SNL in the same year; or maybe those two experiences were reversed, I don’t know. What I do know is this: I was transported, transfixed, blown away, taken aback, gobsmacked,Continue reading “#849: R is for Rosalía”
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#621: B is for Björk
Who needs verses and choruses? Bridges, too. Who needs ’em?Recognizable melodies? Passé. Björk, as much as I love her, as much as I find herabsolutely irresistible as a creative force of singular visionand equally singular persona, gets weirder and weirder witheach new album. Fossora, an album consisting instrumentallyof woodwinds, horns, drum machines,some synthesizers, voice choirs,andContinue reading “#621: B is for Björk”
On the Thirtieth Day of 2025…
…I’m thinking about having watched the Björk concert last night on Apple TV. Filmed, I think, within the last year, it was a live performance of mostly material from her Utopia album, the album preceding her most recent project, Fossora. It was a fascinating experience, and while it was not entirely pleasant, I could notContinue reading “On the Thirtieth Day of 2025…”
