Homogenic
By: Emily Mackay
Series: 33 1/3 -- 127; 33 1/3 -- 127.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781501322747
Subjects: Rock music; Singers; Popular music; History and criticism
Description: "In recent years, Björk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art coinciding with her most recent album, Vulnicura, in 2015, her status as artpop auteur has been secured. The album that made all this possible, though is 1997's Homogenic, a turning point in Björk's career and still among her finest musical achievements. Produced under great strain, it moves beyond the stylistic magpie rush of Debut and the urbanophile future-pop of Post, to something darker, stronger and braver, full of dramatic assertions of independence, sharp, stuttering beats, rich strings and raw outbursts of noise. It created, as the Alexander McQueen designed sleeve clearly asserted, a new Björk, one who would never stop hunting."--Back cover.
Notes: Series numbering from spine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-144).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: I'm going hunting; title: State of emergency: Björk's crisis; title: I want to go on a mountain top: Björk's escape; title: The marvellous web: Björk's friends; title: Excuse me, but I just have to explode: Björk's noises; title: You just didn't know me: Björk's characters; title: Home, what's been found: Björk's national anthems; title: I dare you to take me on: Björk's loves; title: Brand new tomorrow: Björk's images; title: Game we're playing is life: Björk's virtual realities.