Bjork's Homogenic

ISBN-13: 9781501322747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str.

UK) Mackay Emily (Independent Scholar

Opis

In recent years, Bjork's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art coinciding with her most recent album, Vulnicura, in 2015, her status as artpop auteur has been secured. The album that made all this possible, though is 1997's Homogenic, a turning point in Bjork's career and still among her finest musical achievements. Produced under great strain, it moves beyond the stylistic magpie rush of Debut and the urbanophile future-pop of Post, to something darker, stronger and braver, full of dramatic assertions of independence, sharp, stuttering beats, rich strings and raw outbursts of noise. It created, as the Alexander McQueen designed sleeve clearly asserted, a new Bjork, one who would never stop hunting."

Recenzje

Positively bursting at the seams with information and fresh insight, Emily Mackay's 'Homogenic' is perhaps the pick of the bunch [of all 33 1/3s in 2017], a continually entertaining reading of one of Björk's most vital, enduring albums ... As Björk primers go, this is certainly one of the best. CLASH

Spis treści

Introduction: I'm going hunting1 State of emergency: Björk's crisis2 I want to go on a mountain top: Björk's escape3 The marvellous web: Björk's friends4 Excuse me, but I just have to explode: Björk's noises5 You just didn't know me: Björk's characters6 Home, what's been found: Björk's national anthems7 I dare you to take me on: Björk's loves8 Brand new tomorrow: Björk's images9 Game we're playing is life: Björk's virtual realities

O autorze

Emily Mackay is a freelance writer and editor based in Southend-on-Sea, UK. In her career, she has been to a party at Prince's house, ordered out of a car at gunpoint by the LAPD and helped Thurston Moore steal a sofa. Her favourite though, was being driven around Reykjavík by Björk in her Landrover.