Bjork's new album Medulla

I think it fell into the same trap that the last few Stereolab albums have for me. I like them quite a lot, but put them aside to keep from wearing them out and never really touch them again. I need to give in to albums more often.

Matthew Barney just needs to get the hell over his own testicles and their reaction to temperature fluctuation AND he needs to stop teabagging our fair Bjork with his influence. She could do a lot better. Creating your own superficially impenetrable (yet, upon further examination, didactic as hell) personal multiverse of quirky signifiers is so 1998; and I liked Bjork when she was shit-faced on Red Stripe, fucking punkers, and not feigning a British accent a la Madge.

Not that I think that this won't be a brilliant album, mind you. I just wish that she'd date someone like Momus who isn't so... how do I put this...

Alt Dot Alternative Dot Adult Contemporary?!?

Then we'd see some results. I know people on here rag on him a lot, but have you heard the new Summerisle disc? Dubya Dubya Dubya Othermusic.com. A collaboration with Anne Laplantine (who I've never heard of prior to now - some quiet startled French chick into Laptopping). It's fucking brilliant! But then again, that might be the wine talking. I tend to drift toward ambient recordings and all the goofy praise therein with each new sip in the summertime.

Makes me want to move to Iceland and throw away my television. Become pregnant.

Didn't Barney and Bjork have a kid recently? We'd better keep Bowie and Iman's child away from this one or they just might mate and produce the antichrist in 20 years.

Fuck.

i will qualify my love of bjork with a shot at her for releasing so much dubious 'collector' live cd/dvd/box set shit though.

any info on collaborators for this?

I thought Bjork's twang was pure Bristol from hanging out with Tricky and his chums; I doubt she's intentionally cultivated it - it's the Jan Molby effect. Maybe she's gone Gwyneth recently, I dunno. I probably haven't heard her speak at length since that South Bank Show in '97.

Momus: Good morning, Goodmansdaughter! You're up early!
Bjork: Yes, I've been up to the top of the mountain, screaming into the wind. I wrote three new songs about the total intensity of love, and how your cowardliness didn't live up to it. Then I got very very drunk and had an affair with a Moroccan shepherd.
Momus: Oh, I see. Well, I missed out on quite a bit by being here asleep.
Bjork: No, I was sleeping too, that was just my dream.
Momus: Do you have any plans for today?
Bjork: Well, I thought I'd go to Seven and buy some improbable clothes, check out the galleries in Chelsea, then go up to the top of the mountain, scream into the wind, write three new songs about the total intensity of love and how your cowardliness doesn't live up to it, then get very very drunk and have an affair with a Moroccan shepherd.
Momus: Oh, okay.

Fulfulling others' low expectations of you?

this is a very charming record by one of her psuedonyms

oh, god, that sounded awful.

but you know what i mean.

i tend to be oblivious to the "public personalities" of many musicians i adore. hence my flabbergasted reactions to certain posts on the pj harvey thread.

1)"Birthday"
2-4)three more sugarcubes songs, names fail me
5)"Big Time Sensuality"
6)"Hyper-Ballad"
7)"Enjoy"
8)"Isobel"
9)"I Miss You"
10)"Hunter"
11)"Joga"
12)"Bachelorette"
13)"Alarm Call" (the version used in the video that had a stronger beat)
14)"Pluto"
15)"Unison"

For the most part she's another disco-diva who doesn't make enough disco. Like Xtina.

I can't fault that selection at all! Those are probably her best songs.

actually most of what I liked about Bjork Evanescence is doing better.

what's the connection, in your view?

I doubt I've heard it, unless they're on the Metal Mixtape that Scott Seward sent me.

I kind of like her music but this is horribly true - really.