Lost In Music: The Sugarcubes-Planet

Bjork’s breakthrough band in the UK and USA (she’d made work with Kukl,Spit and Snot and various others) were a funny hybrid of indie and pop: sometimes,they were on the wrong side of wacky, a la The B52s around the time of Love Shack. Sometimes, as with the gloriously dark Mama, Cold Sweat or Sick For Toys, they had a malevolent glee.

But for me, they never made a more beautiful song than this little meditation on The Big Bang. With Bjork singing about feeling dizzy,and small in the world, it forever sealed her reputation for questing lyrics and pop invention. She’s at once pagan goddess and mad scientist.

http://www.bjork.com

Published by loreleiirvine

I'm a freelance arts critic, working with a particular emphasis on music, theatre and dance.

One thought on “Lost In Music: The Sugarcubes-Planet

  1. when I have listened to her it’s always been like, oh, wow that works, or, oh, no, this doesn’t, and I think that’s the thing, that it might just not, that makes her a great and thrilling artist.

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