An open letter to The Wire
Quite an intoxicating read to match the emotionality of Bjork's musical and amusical persona. I highly recommend reading it
(P55, The Wire 373, Frances Morgan), in capsule article format.
The LP is one of the most affecting collections of sounds I have heard since Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man. It has a
similar emotional levity and breadth of style and artistic vision that really speaks to me. There is also a matched duality
between these aforementioned albums since both feature collaborators, but as Morgan notes in the review of "Vulnicura", the
ninth Bjork long-player, "there is no question who is the auteur here".
That's a sorely lacking quality in most songwriting music of the last decade - besides pop breakthroughs who use the crux
functionality of their format's context (Lady Gaga - pop expose, Sleater-Kinney - riot grrl gung-ho angst-dynamo, et al) the
Bjork vinyl stands out as an artefact of emotive purity that doesn't subscribe to triteness of indie lattices. Even as the
indie and indie subgenre-of-choice-at-that-moment juncture polarises clarity on the matters showcased, this
can indeed be seen as cross-threaded by LPs from the former musicians, who fundamentally to the point of this letter, take
their hearts and lay them bare. And that's something I can fully endorse, even if I don't become a donor myself.
Yours
Andy Pipkin
Quite an intoxicating read to match the emotionality of Bjork's musical and amusical persona. I highly recommend reading it
(P55, The Wire 373, Frances Morgan), in capsule article format.
The LP is one of the most affecting collections of sounds I have heard since Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man. It has a
similar emotional levity and breadth of style and artistic vision that really speaks to me. There is also a matched duality
between these aforementioned albums since both feature collaborators, but as Morgan notes in the review of "Vulnicura", the
ninth Bjork long-player, "there is no question who is the auteur here".
That's a sorely lacking quality in most songwriting music of the last decade - besides pop breakthroughs who use the crux
functionality of their format's context (Lady Gaga - pop expose, Sleater-Kinney - riot grrl gung-ho angst-dynamo, et al) the
Bjork vinyl stands out as an artefact of emotive purity that doesn't subscribe to triteness of indie lattices. Even as the
indie and indie subgenre-of-choice-at-that-moment juncture polarises clarity on the matters showcased, this
can indeed be seen as cross-threaded by LPs from the former musicians, who fundamentally to the point of this letter, take
their hearts and lay them bare. And that's something I can fully endorse, even if I don't become a donor myself.
Yours
Andy Pipkin