We'll be making a bit of noise about this over the next few weeks, which definitely breaks the Bloggers Code (Section 13B: Don't blog your own music if you're a music blog)
In an effort to maintain a charade of journalistic impartiality we'll just not say anything about it and let you decide if this utterly brilliant slice of party-starting Funk/Rap is for you or not.
Totally impartial, see?
Taken from the forthcoming Remedy the Blues EP on Particle Zoo. More on that soon.
There aren't really the right superlatives in human dialects to describe Bjork, which is fitting since she is the type of artist that makes everyone wonder if they're really human at all. Similarly to the much-missed Bowie and Prince, Bjork is a creative force so fierce and unstoppable, so relentlessly progressive she appears to be a visitor from another, infinitely more beautiful, realm.
She's back with a new video The Gate, created in collaboration with
Gucci’s Alessandro Michele and artist Andrew Thomas Huang.
It's predictably brilliant and brilliantly unpredictable.
Bjork has told Dazed magazine it's about "rediscovering love, but in a spiritual way - for lack of a better word". Perhaps the love of a mother for their child? I can't be sure, but the ball of energy that enters and leaves her abdomen at regular intervals throughout the video and the plaintive call of 'I will care for you' certainly give that impression. It's deeply touching, and technically, artistically mesmerising. She is a true auteur, her art light years beyond most of our comprehension. Her collaborators, aforementioned and also the ridiculously talented producer Arca, deserve great credit too. The sound design, the imagery, the sparsity, the songwriting: Majestic. Without compare. Scintillating. Stultifying. See? I really need some new superlatives.
Bjork's new album, procuced by Arca, is out soon on One Little Indian.
Stepisodes 14 just dropped, and for those who know that means another wryly hilarious rhyme-fest set to a revisionist video from the one and only Stepasaur.
For those who don't, Stepasaur is none other than Gee Ealey, he of Stepchild/Malachai fame, armed with his ridiculously high quality rap skills, some hilariously average impressions and an appetite for flipping 70s and 80s TV staples on their heads.
It's embarrassing for us that we've not blogged Stepisodes before, since they more than comfortably fit the CMFCP brief.
Please accept my apologies and whip out your viewing spectacles... let's start at episode 14, since it contains a topical tribute to the late Bruce Forsyth, starring in 'The Bru-Tang Clan'
And here's the whole collection for when you're done
