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Many of the people in the list, even in the high places, aren't really the best singers, just great musicians and songwriters who are also singers. Number 64! She's also number 81 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. And her "Big Time Sensuality" is number 29 in Rolling Stone's (July 2022) 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time .
- Medúlla
- Biophilia
- Volta
- Utopia
- Vulnicura
- Fossora
- Debut
- Homogenic
- Vespertine
- Post
At number ten is Medúlla, Björk’s fifth studio album, released in 2004. The musician scrapped the carefully layered electronics present on her previous albums in favour of acapella instrumentation. Björk employs the help of Inuit throat singers, beatboxers and choir groups to create dynamic backing sounds to accompany her distinctive vocals. Discus...
Not only wasBiophiliaBjörk’s seventh studio album, but it was also a multimedia project, becoming the world’s first “app album,” centring around musicology. Partly composed on an Apple iPad, the album’s sound reflects the technological themes surrounding its release, often including electronic beats. ‘Crystalline’ is a staggering electronic track, ...
When Volta was released in 2007, it became Björk’s first and only album to enter the US Billboard 200 Chart, peaking at number nine. Björk decided to move away from the highly personal and emotional themes present in her previous releases, stating: “All I wanted to do for this album was just to have fun and do something that was full-bodied and rea...
Björk’s 2017 albumUtopia was made in collaboration with Arca, a Venezuelan electronic producer. Discussing their time working together, the musician said: “I obviously saw a gigantic musician in [Arca], and I felt that she had gone into my world with such elegance and dignity and interpreted it, helped me [with] what was there, that I wanted to mee...
Following the devastating split from her husband, Matthew Barney,Björk channelled her heartbreak into an album, which resulted in 2015’s hauntingly sad Vulnicura. “The only way I could deal with [the divorce] was to start writing for strings; I decided to become a violin nerd and arrange everything for 15 strings and take a step further,” she state...
The most recent release from the Icelandic genius isFossora, an album that she shared in September 2022. Coming five years after Utopia,Fossora was created during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on themes of isolation, grief and new love. Björk described it as an “Iceland album” and how an interest in mushrooms “unified the record’s themes of survi...
The album that introduced the world to Björk the solo artist,Debut, instantly highlighted the musician as an indomitable force. Hits such as ‘Venus as a Boy’, ‘Big Time Sensuality’, ‘Human Behaviour’ and ‘Violently Happy’ all sit perfectly onDebut, blending an eclectic mix of sounds. The album weaves between lively vocal performances, pounding beat...
By 1997, Björk was a firmly established international superstar, and this was made no more apparent than when an obsessive fan, Ricardo Lopez, mailed the musician a letter bomb in 1996. Luckily, it was intercepted, but Lopez took his life on camera while playing one of Björk’s songs in the background. Although the incident deeply distressed her, Bj...
Released in 2001, Vespertine is an icy, minimal album – deeply sensuous and revealing in its lyrical content. Björk decided to move away from the big beats and extravagant sounds of her previous releases; instead, she wanted to make “microcosmos of thirty or forty beats interacting.” Vespertineis defined by harps, music boxes, clavichords, strings,...
Björk’s groundbreaking album Post was recieved with critical acclaim upon its release in 1995. Instead of replicating what made Debutsuccessful, the musician moved into greater experimental territory, blending even more sounds into her ever-evolving musical palette. The album begins with the industrial and demanding ‘Army of Me’ before moving strai...
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- Seth Landman
- “Jóga”, 1997. We’ll end with “Jóga,” a song that has been stuck in my head pretty much non-stop since it came out on Homogenic in 1997. This song sounds like it’s some sort of spooky soundtrack to billions of years of seismic activity or something.
- “Big Time Sensuality”, 1993. In addition to music videos, I think I’ve been neglecting, somewhat, to discuss how catchy Björk songs can be! “Big Time Sensuality” is a great example, with a melody and rhythm that feels like it’s floating off planet Earth.
- “It’s Oh So Quiet,” 1995. Björk’s most famous cover, of course, is of “It’s Oh So Quiet”, a 1951 song by Betty Hutton, which was already a cover of the 1948 German song “Und jetzt ist es still.”
- “Venus as a Boy”, 1993. One of the strangest love songs I can think of, “Venus as a Boy” was a single off Debut. It’s strange, I guess, because it’s both so intellectual and physical at the same time.
On and Ever Onward (Live from Housing Works 2009) 2023 • Dirty Projectors & Björk. 86. user score. (12) Ovule (Sega Bodega Remix) 2023. 72. user score.
- Brent Dicrescenzo
- "Hyperballad" Post, 1995. Not to generalize here, but Icelandic writing, from the Sæmundar Edda to Halldór Laxness to Sjón, manages to make the plainspoken, quotidian details of domestic life feel epic.
- "Jóga" Homogenic, 1997. An album in wonder of nature and science, Biophilia is not represented on this list, though "Jóga" comes closest to the mood and idea of it.
- "Army of Me" Post, 1995. Michel Gondry was an ideal collaborator with Björk, as both artists turn the homespun into dazzling spectacle. The psychological heist in the "Army of Me" video was probably their coolest product, a perfect visualization of the song, which takes the cyberpunk stomp of Nine Inch Nails and paints on bright red polish.
- "Possibly Maybe" Post, 1995. It's weird to think that Björk was lumped in with trip-hop in the mid-'90s, palling around with Tricky and Goldie. She was too far-reaching to suffer the same fate as those faded peers.
Professional ratings. Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Icelandic musician and singer Björk, released on 8 November 2002 through One Little Indian. Although not all of Björk's singles are included on this collection, all of the songs on Greatest Hits were released as singles. The tracks were selected by fans through a survey on Björk's ...
Sep 20, 2022 · On Fossora, she returns to Earth. “It’s something that lives underground, but not tree roots,” she explains of the fungus metaphor that guided the record. “A tree root album would be quite ...
