Bjork - Earth Intruders
Hating Bjork’s face is no reason not to like her songs, but the fact that lately they’ve been prone to featuring twelve minute food-blender solos and suchlike is quite valid indeed.Hooray then for a Bjork song that features no such experimental shenanigans and is actually quite pop, in an incredibly strange and unnerving kind of way.
The beat (‘Maneater’ by way of Autechre) comes courtesy of Timbaland and is the only thing that remains constant in a track that builds, twists and turns like a fiery tribal ritual going horribly wrong in the middle of the night. Great big stabs of distorted piano and synth ring out as Timbo’s demonic foundations do their hypnotic work under an apocalyptic, Knife-like vocal from Bjork.
This might sound like a bit of a mess on paper (and, to be fair, on record) but it’s one of those brilliant, mystifying messes that never fail to make perfect sense when you hear them. It’s also - and this is the biggest surprise - packed full of amazing hooks.
And if all that wasn’t enough, it’s even got a chorus.
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