Rank Bjork's Albums

vespertine
homogenic
post
medulla
debut

(I left Debut out because even though I like the singles, I've never owned it or heard it much)

1. homogenic
2. vespertine post debut and selmasongs
2.5 a whole bunch of remixes
3. 1/2 of medulla
4. 1/2 of medulla

...and I'd like to pretend the following never existed, but "wishing won't make it so," sadly...

6)Selmasongs
7)Vespertine

I can't stand Vespertine and the new one is just hilarious.

Telegram is kinda strange. Selma Songs would probly be #3 if I included it.

I don't really know the other ones well enough (I don't own them), but from what I've heard, I'd put Debut and then Medulla last.

Mine:

Vespertine
Homogenic
Post
Medulla
Debut
Selmasongs

now ranking the bjork VIDEOS, that'd be fun.

fronting on post is ridiculous.

Selmasongs

Vespertine

Bachelorette
Hyperballad
Army Of Me
Joga
Human Behaviour
Nature Is Ancient
Isobel
I Miss You
It's Oh So Quiet
Alarm Call
Big Time Sensuality
Venus As A Boy
Violently Happy
Play Dead
Hunter
Possibly Maybe (can't remember it enough)
Hidden Place
Pagan Poetry

anything i forgot stick in the middle (the Lynn Fox video projections for the recent tour look gorgeous)

-- Matthew "Flux" Perpetua

this is almost exactly my take on it, though i'm not sure i'd even bother ranking the new one.

Debut

Homogenic

I'm in a bit of a vicodin haze right now...should I go listen to the album?

I just can't imagine loving something so...cotton candy.

Part of it has to do with tensions I hear that maybe you don't: how e.g. glitches or dissonance might rupture soft 'pretty' melodic and timbral surfaces.

it took seeing the breathtaking Royal Opera House DVD for Vespertine to really 'click' with me, and when it did it was a small bombshell. As well as a 'Well, duh' moment. I don't hear it as glossed over, 'cotton candy' sentimental, superficial or derivative anymore since then.

In fact I think it shares a lot of moments exactly as raw, searching and emotionally exposed as 'Homogenic' (Cocoon, Pagan Poetry, An Echo A Stain and especially Aurora) along with the more familiar loved-up peans to eternal domestic comforts, life and family.

To me it's another fantastic work that came from a not-too enjoyable time in her life very much akin to 'Homogenic', if you're willing to buy into the whole emotional pain=deeper better art theory/cliche I guess.

I think the reason this wasn't picked up on as much of a take on the record is as much a result of her modesty at the time in not making any linking comments re: Lars Von Trier (although she has spoken out a bit more about it now, describing the process of making Dancer In The Dark as like 'having petrol poured on your soul' (approx)) and the fact that the record has a happy ending this time, mirrored by the fact she was very publicly known to be in love again.

I do think a big weakness of the record as a whole is the length, and the 'still' sounding songs (It's Not Up To You, Undo, Harm of Will) which make it feel sprawling and dense compared to her usual albums. The first two of those in particular just felt like re-treads thematically for her and really alienated me from what I feel is the real spirit of the record better captured further in. And as for 'happy endings' again, I think 'Unison' is a charming but unusually indistict closing track by her standards.

I'm definitely glad she's moved on from it though, it would have been a stiflingly pretty, eventually vacant artistic direction to move any further into.

I guess I wrote all that because I'm a huge fan of hers too, and (ridiculously) it really pains me to know that someone else has the trouble I had not 'getting' one of her finest records yet. Or maybe you'll never like it it doesn't really matter :)

1 = Debut/Homogenic/Vespertine
4 = Post/Medulla

interspersed with huge amounts of everything else she's done. Post from the livebox is also far, far more deserving of the acclaim for that record and time and carries the sentiment, and sense of adventure a little better than the studio record I think.

6 = Selmasongs :(
(me too)

The only song I can actually stand on that record is "Heirloom."

so, for me, its:

homogenic
vespertine

and then the rest I like more or less about the same. Medulla is an admirable record but I don't listen to it much.

I love the first sugarcubes album although they are a band served best by the greatest hits collection.

[oh sod it, the rest]

There was no discussion of Voltaic on ILM?

wait what's Voltaic? not volta? News about the upcoming Björk album Volta.

Best first:

Homogenic
Medulla
Post
Vespertine
Debut
Volta

Homogenic
the song "Ruby Baby"
Debut
Post
Volta
Vespertine
Medulla

Medulla
Vespertine
Homogenic
Debut
Post
Volta

Post
Homogenic
Debut
Vespertine
Volta
Medulla

Homogenic
Post
Debut
Vespertine
Selmasongs
Medulla
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Volta

Homogenic
Post
Debut
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Medulla
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Volta
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(the cruel depths of hell)
Vespertine
Selmasongs

debut > post

congratulation to the five or so posters who got this right itt

Homogenic
Debut
Post
Vespertine
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then i gave up on bjork

(the cruel depths of hell)
Vespertine

SO RONG...

Life's Too Good
Post
Homogenic
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!
It's It
Selmasongs
Gling Glo
Telegram
Medulla
Vespertine
Debut
Volta
Stick Around For Joy

Homogenic
the other albums

homogenic
vespertine
debut
post
selmasongs
medúlla
volta

Vespertine = steamy winter sex music

Homogenic (9.9)
Medulla (9.7)
Post (9.2)
Vespertine (8.1)
Strings (7.6, compilation of Brodsky Quartet professional recordings)
Reply (7.5, compilation I made of B-sides 1994-2001)
Debut (6.5)
Selmasongs (5.7)
Telegram (5.3)
Drawing Restraint (5.1)
Volta (4.0)
Gling Glo (3.5)

'Homogenic' is likely my favorite album of the 90s, and 'Medulla' surprised me slightly by topping my Top Albums of the 2000s list. Vespertine has two of my favorite of her songs ("Undo" and "Unison"). Her performance of "Anchor Song" with the Brodsky Quartet is a heart-stopper--and shows how her mastery of her voice grew exponentially from 'Debut' through the early 2000s.

Homogenic (My favourite album of the 90's)
Vespertine
Post
Debut
Medulla
Volta

http://www.factmag.com/2011/03/17/bjork-multimedia-residency-at-manchester-international-festival/

Björk is will undertake a new music & multimedia residency at the 2011 Manchester International Festival, under the banner of Biophilia.

The three-week residency – comprised of six 1800-capacity shows at Campfield Market Hall – will see the artist give live performances of news songs and introduce companion apps, invented instruments and more. A press release explains the concept of Biophilia:

“Where do music, nature and technology meet? Björk introduces Biophilia, an extraordinary answer to this fascinating question and her most ambitious and exciting work to date. A multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows, Biophilia celebrates how sound works in nature, exploring the infinite expanse of the universe, from planetary systems to atomic structure.

“For these six special shows, Björk will be performing new tracks from the forthcoming Biophilia studio album as well as music from her genre-defying back catalogue with a small group of unique musical collaborators. The show will feature a range of specially conceived and crafted instruments, among them a bespoke digitally-controlled pipe organ; a 30 foot pendulum that harnesses the earth’s gravitational pull to create musical patterns – creating a unique bridge between the ancient and the modern; a bespoke gamelan-celeste hybrid; and a one-off extraordinary pin barrel harp. These devices make visible some of the physical processes that are the subject matter of tracks.”

The Biophilia live show takes place on June 30 and July 3, 7, 10, 13 and 16. It will travel to major cities around the world following the Manchester premiere.

Where do music, nature and technology meet?

Love Bjork, but this is srlsly nothing new with her. All her records mix up organic sounds w/ heavy tech beats... and, um, all incorporate music.

Is a three-week music and multimedia residency as amazing as it sounds?

Does a two-shows-a-week residency sound better?

comprised of six 1800-capacity shows

I sort of picture a camp or community of sorts. The idea of having 1800 people living together, exhibiting ideas, playing music... and even better having artists like say Bjork among the community sounds wicked. I'd definitely pay to live in this sort of place for a few days... regardless if I get to have lunch in the same table as Bjork or not.

I guess I'm thinking of something similar to burning man. Only... you know, less faux-hippie, not in the desert and more music-centric.

1. Debut
2. Gling-Gló
3. Everything else

I wish she would've done more jazz albums, her interpretations of those standards on Gling-Gló are nifty. Still, nothing beats the clubby stuff of Debut - it's both insistently danceable and wonderfully idiosyncratic (there's never been a house diva like her). I like many of her later songs, and I understand why she wanted to move into other directions, but it was still a loss for the dancefloors. I've always been a dance music guy and I was just at the right age when Debut dropped... Hearing a voice like that on top of cool, minimal (for the time) house beats, and seeing those videos on MTV, nothing she's done since has given me such chills down my spine.

Agree that she was brilliant as a house diva but I don't think it would've fared too well for her in the long term.

also she did tons and tons and tons of dance songs all throughout her post-Sugarcubes career...?

I'm not saying she didn't. TBH I only own the two albums mentioned above, but I've heard most of the albums she's released after them at least once, and none of them have sounded as dancey as Debut.

you should, at a bare minimum, replay Post, Telegraph and Homogenic again

really she strayed away from danciness only on Selmasongs and even there it wasn't that far

you should run out and buy the soundtrack to drawing restraint 9 she did, its full of big bass dancefloor jams

Medulla sounds non-dancey because practically everything is a capella but I defy you to tell me this isn't meant to be a dance track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQB9d-MMIx0

huh I can't seem to find a non-shitty sounding Youtube of this

ah here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6eWhqFDRvE&feature=related

also I can't stand to watch the "Oceania" video because of the crystals on her face but that's basically her doing a capella trip-hop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1N2-ZgD7H0&feature=related

Yeah...Triumph of a Heart is pretty much the art-sy counterpart of Violently Happy.

I really like the Towa Tei mix of Hyperballad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqBs3fr80w

There's even an alt avant dance club in the music video.

Homogenic
Vespertine
Post
Debut
Medulla

Haven't heard Volta or Selmasongs. Am I missing much?

Selmasongs is a curio with a couple of good songs on it (curiously, the one nominated for the Oscar wasn't one of the good songs).

Volta ranges wildly from awesome to unbearable; if you can put up with 7+ minutes of Antony bleating, it's worth getting.

I can't! But I'll listen to it anyway.

Check out "Earth Intruders", "Declare Independence", "Innocence" and "Wanderlust" on Youtube; if you dig those, the album is worth getting.

Wanderlust video is awesome, btw. Probably my favorite of hers... she chooses her video directors even better than her producers.

She is some sort of countercultural Madonna in a sense that she functions more as a sort of art director than as an actual artist.

if you get only one song from Selmasongs, make it this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNBrnzvXVU

Anyway my ranking:

Vespertine - Coccoon
Post - Hyperballad
Homogenic - Unravel
Debut - Come to Me
Medulla - Desired Constellation
Selmasongs - Scatterheart
Drawing Restraint - Storm
Volta - I See Who You Are

Wanderlust video is awesome, btw. Probably my favorite of hers... she chooses her video directors even better than her producers.

She is some sort of countercultural Madonna in a sense that she functions more as a sort of art director than as an actual artist.

This doesn't really make sense to me... I'm sure most of the the time she has a vision of what she wants to do, and picks her collaborators accordingly (as does Madonna). In music, unless you're a singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar or electronic music producer, you always have to find other people to work with you, but that doesn't make you less of an artist. "Art director" would imply someone who only finds those other people but isn't involved in the creative process itself, which I doubt is the case with Björk (or Madonna).

Does anybody have a point-of-view about her actual debut solo album, "Bjork" ?

I don't think it's ever been reissued except as a bootleg. And TBH I'm not particularly interested in what she sounded like when she was 11.

Well, she struck me as someone that was somewhat precocious, musically.

I wondered if what she made then had any bearing on what she produces latterly.

(I did see a CD a few years ago, but wasn't fussed about getting one)

"Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her."

In Fopp, £5 gets you "Debut", the two-sided CD/DVD version...

homogenic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

"Crystalline" -> http://disconaivete.com/post/6899643048

sounds really dated/boring

the end is a bit Venetian Snares, if you got that far

yeah that's why I said it sounds dated

Oh, ok. I thought so too, btw.

homogenic
post
vespertine
debut
selmasongs
volta*
medulla

*I should note that I never really spent that much time w/ this & acknowledge that my opinions of other björk albums has adjusted over time w/ repeated listening

1. homogenic
2. debut
3-z. bad albums with good singles

I do quite like the new Björk single. That the ending is reminiscent of Venetian Snares or Squarepusher doesn't really matter to me. I like the how it's paced and builds up to it's finale. Nothing shocking, but it's still Björk. Just love hearing her voice again, a-new, I guess.

What I can't get too enthusiastic about is that the new album will feature apps for every song. But then I'm one of those lol people who doesn't have a smart-phone. Even if I did, I don't think I'd drool over that.

i have a smart phone (not an iphone) and i couldn't care less about apps - any, including björk's - and making it the hook of the project makes me instantly bored

the song is...not awful? idk yet.

Instantly bored, that's the phrasing I was after.

I don't know if it's the hook of the whole project. I think one can avoid it by just buying the cd or mp3's? That's what I am aiming for at least.

The new song indeed is not awful. But I do miss hearing it in its "album habitat". With Björk songs tend to make so much more sense as part of an album. Never thought of her as a 'singles'-artist (despite knowing she will probably disagree, what with all the single box sets and all).

Bjork is a singles artist, no question.

I can't even begin to comprehend any of these rankings. How could anyone possibly hold up Homogenic above All Else when it contains such duds as "All Neon Like", "Five Years", "All Is Full Of Love", is beyond me.

How anyone can condemn Medulla to the depths of hell when it contains two of her best songs ("Oceania", "Who Is It"), and many other essentials.

Even then, a greatest hits single comp wouldn't be tolerable any more than it would be of Sparks, Kate Bush, Bowie or any other artist who vacillates from impetus to impetus so wholly that the entire package feels like a science experiment.

Your last argument is exactly why ~ for me ~ Björk is an albums artist, as she has been for me since Debut. Every new album means a new realm, the disclosure of a new, exciting, before unknown universe. Which is why I can't wait to hear the new song in that richer context, to see how it connects and makes love to the other songs.

(I'd struggle ranking the albums. I am only completely sure that Vespertine is my favourite Björk album, by far, for it's coherence, it's intimacy and bare-naked honesty)

I have a smart phone and don't really care but I like it when musicians experiment with presentation.

such duds as "All Neon Like", "All Is Full Of Love"

gtfo

I have a smartphone and I am app-crazy and would totally buy all the Bjork ones... if they weren't iPad exclusive.

I respect your viewpoint but feel differently. Perhaps what I mean is that she's not a singles artist, but one who's work bears considerable editing on the part of the listener. i.e. I immensely prefer live versions of certain songs, cherry-picked remixes and acoustic versions over studio recordings, videos over audio, and so forth. Ranking her albums full-stop seems to be kind of strange, in the same way that I can't rank Bowie albums without massive caveats.

For example, I feel that Volta is her strongest overal "LP" since Post. I felt that it got off the wrong foot by presenting us with "Earth Intruders" and "Declare Independence"-- which is one of the most insulting, classist, shitty things I've ever heard-- but is otherwise a gorgeously constructed, composed and produced record. It doesn't have a "Joga" to appeal to the casuals but I think it's a better record overall than Homogenic in my humble opinion

gtfo

No, you just have to trust it

Despite liking much of Vespertine, I haven't loved a Bjork album since Homogenic. She's like Yoko in that she requires a mitigating sensibility to smother her most outlandish musical fancies.

i think of björk as an albums artist too, but at the same time i think her singles choices have been very judicious in that she's been canny about which tracks work removed from their context (or in enabling them to work removed from their context through videos etc) - every one of her lead singles so far has at least been a striking and singular introduction to a new project (even if the project itself turns out to be disappointing, like volta), and it's that factor i think is missing here. like this could be a random björk offcut or one-off charity single that no one cares about. maybe it will grow on me though!

also, as much as björk's singles can work in isolation, they def don't work all smushed up with each other on a hits compilation.

"All Neon Like" is beautiful, Owen wth.

"all neon like "is certainly better than this new one, which a few listens later still just sounds like something she found lying around from any point in the past decade

i understand that the album doesn't depend on the apps and whatnot but it's def a major angle that she's playing up

... I love this?

(Yeah, I really like it, too. It's hitting all my Iddems nostalgia buttons.)

I'm hearing the bass now I'm using my good headphones - too deep for the regular earphones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvMZx2mf46E

An annoying song on an otherwise brilliant album. I Miss You, that is.

the last 30 seconds or so of "5 Years" is maybe my favorite thing she's done.

when i first heard homogenic i was in high school marching band and we had a metronome that emitted a tone similar to the one that carries "5 years." this could be the intended effect and the tone itself could be universal among all metronomes but it was a cool connection to make in high school, felt like i had decoded something.

You can't handle love
Baby
You can't handle love
It's up the ass
You can't handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXB_LbxgvA

this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> original

(and I call myself a Björk fan)

But then I also have Omar's three cd's, so um whatever.

http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff399/d3v1ns/surrounded__01.jpg

http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff399/d3v1ns/surrounded__06.jpg

How could anyone possibly hold up Homogenic above All Else when it contains such duds as "All Neon Like", "Five Years", "All Is Full Of Love", is beyond me.

Jesus.

Yes, how could we dare hold it above others when it has three of her best songs on it! How ridiculous of us!

I've inexplicably never listened to Selmasongs, but if you're going to include soundtrack work, you have to include the Drawing Restraint 9 one, imo.

I think of Bjork more as a time-period artist than a singles or album artist. Most of the influences/musical arrangements tend to be related to albums, but the selection of songs that happen on tour and the arrangements that are done vary so much due to the makeup of the instrumentalists.

fwiw I really like "All Neon Like" and "I Miss You"

I'm happy to see people didn't criminally underrate Vespertine.

New rank:

Homogenic
Selmasongs
Vespertine
Telegram
Post
Medulla
Volta
Debut
Drawing Restraint 9

for me I think it goes

Homogenic
Medulla
Post
Debut
Volta
Vespertine (never got the love for that one beyond the opener, really)

Eric and I in usual disagreement shocker. Selmasongs dealt the first blow to my fandom.

Homogenic
Post
Debut
Vespertine
Volta

Don't care a whit for the rest.

Whatev, we share #1. That's like Halley's Comet rare.

Post
Post
Homogenic
Debut
Post

And here I was thinking I'd be made to suffer for shitting on "Declare Independence".
The problem w/those tracks off Homogenic-- and even "Immature"-- is that they're the first songs where B embraces this new, meandering style of melody writing that sounds comparatively banal to her earlier stuff.
"All Is Full Of Love" was redeemed by the Plaid remix and the video, but doesn't do anything for me on the album.
To really come clean, when I got that album as a teenager, I pretty much hated the lyrical content, full-stop. "I'm no fucking Buddhist but this is enlightenment", "If you forget my name / you will go astray / like a killer whale / trapped in a bay"-- not B's own lyric but still-- "I dare you to take me on / I dare you to show me your palms", "The riddle gets solved and you push me up to this state of emergency".

Sorry to take aim at a sacred cow here, I'm a big fan, I love Homogenic, but I feel it is just as fallible and speckled as any of her albums and don't get why it gets held up above all else. Maybe I just listened to it too many times.

"Post" is my favourite overall, followed by Debut and Medulla.

Maybe it's because I'm Scandinavian too, but I just prefer Bjork getting urgent to her being cooey cute a la Debut.

xp but... the best part of All Neon Like IS the melody.

I'll admit that I prefer the more straightforward melodies of earlier Bjork stuff on the whole than more meandering compositions, but I've never found the lyrical content objectionable.

though
"All Is Full Of Love" was redeemed by the Plaid remix and the video, but doesn't do anything for me on the album.

is OTM

I'm convinced I'm the only one who prefers the album mix of AIFOL to any of the remixes. To the point I'd watch the music video with the album version cued up.

:(

Wrong Eric H., I prefer it too

According to a press release, Biophilia consists of "a studio album, apps, a new website, custom-made musical instruments, live shows and educational workshops," not to mention a documentary film

And previously reported, Björk is currently in the middle of the first run of Biophilia shows, taking place at the Manchester International Festival in Manchester, England. This is indicative of the way she intends to tour behind the album. Over the next three years, she plans to play six-week residencies in eight cities, all at intimate venues, to audiences of less than 2,000. At these performances, she'll use the apps to perform Biophilia in full twice a week. During her residencies, the venues will also collaborate with local schools to host music-education workshops.

http://pitchfork.com/news/43032-bjork-reveals-full-scope-of-ibiophiliai/ jeez whoa wtf

I just prefer Bjork getting urgent to her being cooey cute a la Debut.

This binary doesn't exist with Bjork -- most of her work is urgent when it's most cute. I'm still fond of Debut because it finds her wrestling, for the last time, with the production du jour and injecting enough personality. It's almost a covers album! But if by cute you mean "The Anchor Song," "Venus as a Boy," "Come to Me" -- man, she's got descendants on every album!

Twin musical Tesla Coils.

Can I just say at this point, I don't care what the album sounds like. Any album featuring musical tesla coils is automatically the best album of all time.

just saw the "Biophilia" concert in Manchester

it was fucking amazing

highly, highly recommended

she plays in the round, with a choir, with lots of custom-built instruments

and voiceover from Sir Richard Attenborough

and she sings her ass off

ayo eric i also prefer the album version of "all is full of love" because it sounds like it's trying to reach us from another room

and then it succeeds

She is actually getting reviews in, like, New Scientist for this.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/07/sparks-fly-at-bjorks-new-show-biophilia.html

This is the first album Bjork has released since I've really gotten into her and I'm p psyched to be able to follow it. Also one of those residencies SHOULD be in NYC, right? Right??? Maybe this will make up for Seefeel cancelling their tour...

the dude who built her new live toys has a blog: http://andycavatorta.com/

homogenic
debut
post
vespertine
---
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the others

I clicked Stan's link before bed last night, then dreamt I went and saw the show.
In my dream, it was awesome and I started crying almost immediately as soon as she walked on stage.

I definitely rank vespertine at the top but these were tipped by the live versions of the songs from that album in the Volta shows with all the strings rescored for brass. Magic.

my ranking

vespertine - FUCKING AMAZING
homogenic - amazing
medulla - mostly great, a bit hit or miss
selmasongs - very good
post - pretty good, but never got the hype as to why it's one of her best
debut - quite patchy
volta - mostly zzzzzzz

think that's it. i haven't played telegram more than once (cant even remember it) and never heard Drawing Restraint 9

Telegram is a remix collection, based on "Post" (gettit?)

In my drawer here is Debut, a dual sided disc with DVD content. 5.1 mix and a bunch of vids.

VESPERTINE
(big gap)
HOMOGENIC
MEDULLA
POST
VOLTA/SELMA
DEBUT

New one leaked. Wasn't really feeling it at first, but the second half is surprisingly strong.

She keeps repeating that trick in "Crystalline" where the tinkly, xylophone/celeste/harpsichord whimsy gets crashed by industrial beats, but it seems to work better in "Sacrifice" and "Mutual Core."

(I guess that trick sort of dates back to "Hyper-Ballad.")

AAAAHHH I HAVE TO HEAR THIS NOW

as usual, i have no idea which bjork thread to revive. but this is really good writing on bjork, i think: http://thequietus.com/articles/23621-bjork-best-albums

also, since the thread hasn't been revived since 2011, i'm curious how bjork fans rate vulnicura and utopia among her other work.

Homogenic
Vespertine
Post
Vulnicura
Debut
Medulla
Biophilia
Utopia
Volta

i am the worst bjork fan ever, but i have approximately 0% recollection of biophilia

replace but with and

vulnicura took a little while to grow on me - i usually tend to gravitate to her more 'active' material, but vulnicura is great sink-into-able material from front to back, and better than she's done that kind of stuff on any of her earlier records. watched the videos for utopia but haven't gotten around to it yet apart from those

i haven't listened to a few of these completely in a while, and i'm generally pretty amenable to most of what björk does, but (very) rough ranking off the top of my head:
homogenic
vulnicura / debut
post / volta / vespertine / medulla / biophilia

rank em

Homogenic > Vespertine > Telegram > Post > Debut > Medulla > Selmasongs > Utopia > Vulnicura > Volta > Biophilia > Drawing Restraint 9

Vulnicura was a welcome return to form for me when released, it seemed to revisit the harsher distorted beats of Homogenic and was a little more accessible emotionally. Utopia was also a nice surprise, the arrangements are gorgeous on this and it's really a record to live in. Also there's some good melodic vocal hooks, which it seems have become less frequent on recent Bjork albums

also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68qymYgSxCM

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