then last year, out of nowhere, they swagged the best video at the mtv awards. theirs was an art that reverberated in its own beautiful ice cavern, detached yet inclusive, warm yet cold. sigur rós (icelandic for victory rose) don’t wear their badges on their sleeve. although influenced by grand matriarch björk, but not obviously so. with their quiet genius, the band made epic soundscapes, rocked their own sound. that was until sigur rós arrived with a bang as loud as a snowflake landing on the ground. in her wake, iceland received attention from the western world - but as much for damon albarn owning a local bar as for homespun talent. björk is a vessel for innovation, a human gun to shoot ideas through.
whether from people she rolls with at the time - tricky, polly harvey, talvin singh or the places she inhabits - reykjavik, london or ny, where she currently resides with boyfriend matthew barney and baby daughter isadora ("because she is adorable").
ISADORA BARNEY MOVIE
she launched her inevitable solo career and five albums and one movie later, björk still furrows, she still burrows and still borrows. her voice belonged in the other world, known to reduce people to floods of diamond tears with its intense emotional impact. fronting her band the sugarcubes, björk screamed her way into the charts with ’birthday’, heavily pregnant both with radical ideas and with son sindri (now 18 and currently rocking out in a heavy metal band). it existed north of the borders, on the precipice of the northern lights : the home of icebergs, geysers, fjörds and magnus magnuson. both in geographical terms in regards to people’s subconscious.
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