Bjork - Medulla
Bjork creates a weird distancing context around herself, her music, so that it’s impossible to just listen to it if you’re aware of those circumstances. I don’t fault her for it, but I do enjoy her music quite a bit when I get a chance to just listen to it.
I wish she would just do an acoustic album with no overdubs or editing. Really, why hasn’t she already? Someone so self-aware must contemplate utterly rethinking her approach every once in a while.
7 months agoSaw Horse - Raised By Robots (track starts quiet/noisy)
I still like this album. It’s a little episodic, and for that reason it works best knowing the story: a radio becomes sentient, and when it realizes it is trapped in a metal chassis it has words to say. In that context, the episodes are like the radio flipping itself through the stations, falling back into the static, dropping in and out of the middle of different sounds.
This account did occur to me while I was making it, but not as a directive. I have to admit, the process of making and putting together was dominant, and various stories arose as necessary. But the stories work.
I’m really grateful to Emily Brock, Linda Kelen, and Lea Brock for sending me their thoughts about this album.
Many musicians say that they do or don’t listen to their own works. I listen to mine, and not just narcissistically, and not just because I enjoy them. Often, I can’t believe that they work, so I’ll see if I was justified in leaving them in whatever state.
1 year ago
