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Oct 3, 2022 · To celebrate the momentous achievement that is her 10th album, it bears looking back on Björk’s colorful career and examining how her studio LPs stack up against each other after all these ...
- Medúlla
- Volta
- Fossora
- Utopia
- Vulnicura
- Biophilia
- Debut
- Vespertine
- Post
- Homogenic
By the turn of the 21st century, Björk’s albums had become progressively more progressive, stretching the boundaries of both contemporary pop and electronic music, challenging the way we hear words and melodies. Medúlla, the title of which references the inner core of certain organs or body structures (the essence of things, if you will), found Bjö...
You can imagine the roar of relief that accompanied early reports that Björk’s Volta would find her emerging from her increasingly hermetic cocoon and declare that’s there’s more to life than deliberately defying expectations. The album’s first single, “Earth Invaders,” recalls “Human Behavior” and “Army of Me” but gurgles with a more straightforwa...
Any appropriations of familiar music forms on Fossora are, at best, fleeting. Björk’s compositional sense is as unbound as ever, her songs amoeba-like organisms transfiguring from one second to the next across the album, in line with a logic that’s defiantly hers alone. Fossora (a made-up feminization of the Latin word for “dig”) is her fungal albu...
Stretching past the 70-minute mark, the sprawling Utopia offers a sensory experience adorned with flutes and harps and propelled into sublime rapture by the Icelandic singer-songwriter’s intimate, otherworldly vocal in songs that appear alien at first blush but, upon repeated listens, convey profound truths that seem plucked from a collective field...
Let’s be honest: Björk, more than any chanteuse, needs no tangible catalyst to trigger emotive seizures in song form. She’s felt violently happy about the backs of men’s freshly shaven necks, imagined herself a girl-shaped fountain of blood, promised a volcano eruption just below your aeroplane simply so you would know that some day you’ll blossom....
By 2011, the free spirit who introduced herself on Debut had aged into a prickly, smart, and severe performer who didn’t mind coming off as pretentious in the pursuit of her art. And Björk’s seventh album, Biophilia, works best when it eschews pop altogether, instead forging into dark, minimalist territory that’s occasionally reminiscent of Steve R...
While the U.K. press ate it up, American critics, perhaps still beating off to the U.S.’s exalted alt-rock movement, were divided on Björk’s Debut. Though the album contains a healthy mix of trip-hop and jazz-pop, dance music dominates, a marked departure for the former Sugarcube. While the ballads don’t measure up to those on Post or Homogenic, da...
Vespertine finds everyone’s favorite shrieker barely rising above a whisper. Backed by subtle clicks and bloops from Matmos and some elegantly unobtrusive strings, Björk sings the praises of solitude, monogamy, and quiet days at home—all topics that would seem out of character if they weren’t brightened by her uniquely glamorous oddness. On the won...
Björk’s second album, Post, was designed as a mixtape of communiqués to friends and family from the singer after she migrated from Iceland to Europe: “Army of Me,” a kick in the pants to her little brother; “Enjoy,” a love letter to London; “Possibly Maybe,” a farewell to ex-boyfriend Stéphane Sednaoui; “Cover Me,” a message to producer Nellee Hoop...
If Björk’s Post flattered the decade’s penchant for eclecticism, Homogenic snapped all the trends of the ’90s into sharp focus even as it widened the scope with fin de siècle zeal. The Icelandic siren’s “emotional landscapes” have never been more volcanically formidable (“I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl”), more self-effacingly wry (“...
Nov 20, 2022 · From the bold Debut to the breathtaking Fossora, here are Björk’s ten studio albums ranked in order of greatness: Every Björk album ranked from worst to best: 10. Medúlla (2004) At number ten is Medúlla, Björk’s fifth studio album, released in 2004.
May 5, 2021 · Our first ranking of Björk’s albums from worst to best originally ran on February 22, 2013. Every age wears the art-pop that suits it. Often, that pop is cut in an arresting direction:...
- Brad Shoup
Sep 30, 2022 · An involving symphonic number with new-age wind-chime elements, it is one of two songs commemorating her hippy homeopath parent, who died in 2018. Other tracks are inspired by the natural world,...
- Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
Oct 4, 2022 · In this ranking, we examine what makes a Björk album great, and how she carved out an entirely new space for herself as a solo artist, starting with Debut in 1993.
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Apr 20, 2015 · It is impossible to rank her albums on quality alone, since they rarely deviate from a standard her fans expect. Instead, this list will serve as more of a guide for those who know they need to listen to Björk, but have put it off too long and don’t know where to begin.
