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Tricky and Björk shared beginnings early on in their respective careers on the Nearly God album after both of them had released phenomenally popular debut albums that redefined the way people listened to electronic music. Tricky’s seminal album, Maxinquaye has a sound so original that critics invented the genre “triphop” in an attempt to contain it, while Björk’s first two albums, Debut and Post had already established her as the new queen of dance music, with numerous hit singles and co-authorship of the title...
...Björk and Tricky’s paths diverged dramatically after that—Tricky continued to remix Björk’s songs, but soon wound up in a fightfist with her fiancee Goldie, later to disappear into the obscurity of what has since been diagnosed as a rare hormone disease. He released albums that were proogressively more radio-unfriendly, while Björk released the acclaimed Homogenic, and became so famous that she was the victim of fan attacks and stalkers. Björk then starred in last year’s Dancer in the Dark...
...contrast to Tricky’s swerve back into the mainstream, Björk has taken a subtle left turn up her own secret street and found yet another playground, with its own female choir and Zeena Parkins on harp. With computer mix duo Matmos assisting with the intricately layered gurgles and rattles that serve Björk where others are reduced to hitting skins with sticks, Björk wraps her voice around you and seduces you entirely. Where Tricky mixes himself into the background in favor of his collaborators, Björk knows that it is only...
...Cocoon,” Björk softly swoons and wonders over beauty of a lover who, “after sharing [her] core would stay, going nowhere,” and, when she awakes, is “still inside her.” This is not the bump ‘n booty of R&B, but the intimacy most songwriters avoid, incapable of such self-revelation. Her music, particularly since her film, is often redolent of musicals. “It’s Not Up To You” sounds like a bit like something Sondheim...
...running the next. Just when RUV was playing dreamy Icelandic pop the likes of which I'd never heard, the signal disappeared. When I logged back on two days later, the station was alive with The Sound of Music, perhaps in homage to Icelandic star Björk, who warbles a few songs from it in the film Dancer in the Dark. In hopes of hearing those other, more alluring songs again, I keep an RUV RealPlayer file in a desktop folder...