For her first TV appearance in about eight years on Tuesday night, Björk performed two songs on the UK’s Later...with Jools Holland. Wearing a 3D-printed mask that looked like an intricately decorated cake cum vulva, she stood with her all-women flute band in the middle of what looked like an ’80s garden center (heavy …
Lars Von Trier’s new film The House That Jack Built is premiering at Cannes today and while le French will get to see it in full, over in America we’re stuck with the movie’s trailer. And folks, I think this might be a movie about Lars Von Trier himself?
I believe that Björk’s ninth adult solo album Utopia is the execution of a singular vision, and I am happy for her achievement. I admire her finished product from a remove, like a perfect-looking couple whose bed I will never share or a glorious penthouse spread across the pages of Architectural Digest, whose doors I…
Listening to Björk’s new album Utopia on headphones approximates the feeling of a flock of birds perched on your shoulders screaming in your ears in unison as they pierce your tender flesh with their talons. That’s to say there are a lot of flutes, and ya know what? It kinda hurts if you aren’t completely invested in…
Today, Björk has unveiled the video for her second single off her upcoming album Utopia. “Blissing Me” tells the story of a budding romance, of “falling in love with love.” (Björk has called Utopia her Tinder album, as it’s the lighter follow-up to her 2015 break-up album Vulnicura, though she did recently clarify to …
After Björk posted a story on Facebook about a Danish director (believed to be Lars von Trier, who cast her in his 2000 film Dancer in the Dark) who, she alleges “sulked and punished me and created for his team an impressive net of illusion where i was framed as the difficult one” after she “turned [him] down,” von…
Lars von Trier has denied allegations that he sexually harassed Björk in 2000 while filming the musical drama Dancer in the Dark.
Pop stars (and their teams) know that a great video can elevate a song, and so it’s particularly heartening to see Björk remains in command with that aspect of pop stardom, even as her hooks evaporate and the case for calling her music pop becomes increasingly difficult to argue. That’s to say that Björk’s tuneless…
N: Björk, “The Gate” - This is the single??? The utter tunelessness of “The Gate,” our first taste of Björk’s upcoming “Tinder” album Utopia, should dismay fans who long for the days when she was able to make alien sounds accessible to the masses, a true pop maverick. She’s still some kind of maverick, I guess—with a…
Just kidding, I have no idea if this is vommy because I am not watching it in VR, but Björk is back with a segment from the virtual reality family of her art-based vids, this time for the Vulnicura track “Notget.” One thing I do know is that it looks better than the new live-action Ghost in the Shell.
Last weekend, Björk was a featured guest at Houston’s Day for Night, a multimedia arts and music festival lynchpinned by Björk Digital, her traveling massive art installation that uses virtual reality to immerse fans in her world. In addition to that, she played not one but two DJ sets on a line-up full of male DJs…
For about two years, Björk has been working with Tri Angle Records, a London- and New York-based record label that releases the vanguard of contemporary electronic music. In particular, she enlisted the Haxan Cloak, a producer on the label, to work on Vulnicura, and asked the label’s founder, Robin Carolan, to help…
The scenario: your stepfather won’t stop playing Mannheim Steamroller because it’s so festive but also “experimental” and “cool.” The solution: convince him to let you play these “alternative” Christmas jams by making him think you’re letting him in on a secret that will make him even “cooler.”
If you were, hypothetically, a celebrity dentist and if you were, hypothetically, about to work on the hallowed mouth of Icelandic art star Björk would you, hypothetically, get high on your own supply? Like just a touch of nitrous, beforehand? Of course that would be unethical, but check it: “Mouth Mantra” is Björk’s…
Today, we are wishing a very Happy Birthday to Björk Guðmundsdóttir! In a world of designer impostors and copycats, Björk has remained one of the TRUE weirdos of the world.
Y: Björk’s 10-minute video for “Black Lake” (premiered at the MOMA) features her singing from within the walls of a cavernous structure that slowly crumbles and erupts. It’s about darkness, entrapment, eternal emptiness, feelings and all that. [Pitchfork]
The Governors Ball Music Festival goes down in New York every June, one of the local festivals that marks the start of summer. Jezebel staff attended this weekend, and had many emotions.
Arca, the experimental Venezuelan producer who’s worked with Kanye West, Björk, and FKA twigs, was permanently banned from Instagram yesterday for the artwork relating to a new single, “Vanity.” The art, created by frequent Arca and twigs collaborator Jesse Kanda, depicts a melting cyborg-looking person with a fairly…
On Friday, Björk played a surprise DJ set inside a converted basement on Wall Street in New York, wearing a full crystalline face mask that made her look like a very pretty alien/banshee.
