Only 15 years old (now 16) from an island outside Stockholm, Amanda Mair didn't have any official record as an artist when we discovered her by pure luck in 2010. She had no bandcamp/myspace page, hadn't made any live shows or sent any demos to labels or press. She did however record a few songs with friend of Labrador who - blissed out - later played us the recordings. For that we're thankful!
I just heard Deity's critically flaw-deprived The One That Got Away on the radio for the very first time. It was blaring from someone's car while I was walking to work. I guess that means it has been officially released as a single now, so it made me cry a little. Feels like having a new baby. And it's so beautiful and sad.
Homegirl's looking mature & classy, love it. Her appearance this era is so much better than that All I Ever Wanted shit. That whole era was just a mess though, #realtalk
Homegirl's looking mature & classy, love it. Her appearance this era is so much better than that All I Ever Wanted shit. That whole era was just a mess though, #realtalk
Speaking of eras we'd like to forget, it's important to remember that Björk had a good track record with producers prior to Timbalame. Before Mark Bell became a shadow of his former self, he did some brilliant work with her. It sure sounds like she's back on track with her hire of 16bit, the dubstep/electronic producers extraordinaire.
And the absolute pinnacle of her career as a live performance artist was the wonderful show she did at the Royal Opera House in London, being the first pop star ever to stop there on a concert tour (for Vespertine). Matmos, Zeena Parkins, Simon Lee, and the Greenland Choir backed her up to perfection (flawless, etc), and to date the show has produced the best live recordings of several of her songs, including Hyperballad, Possibly Maybe, Isobel, and most of Vespertine.
Matmos created some amazing beats during the show, including live-sampling a deck of playing cards being shuffled, the sound of feet moving through rocks, and the electric pulses of Drew Daniel's spine for the performance of Cocoon:
Vespertine can be a difficult album to 'get' at first, but watching her perform each song lets you understand the great melodies and beats, like in her performance of An Echo, A Stain.
Björk has done so many live performances that she rarely gets emotional, but watch her get choked up halfway during this rendition of Unison.
This performance of Possibly Maybe is just insane; even the YouTube commenters noticed that when she hits that bridge she enters another universe.
You can stan all you want, but make no mistake: this is how a real Queen slays lessors.
...interesting, considering they're on different (albeit neighboring) albums. I kind of like the live version of Hyperballad/Pluto she did for Voltaïc and the Volta tours, especially with Mark Bell using Freak as a linking song. I don't like how he uses it to bludgeon the end of Hyperballad, though.
For me, Homogenic was one of the first actual records I ever purchased with my allowance money ($1 a week does not go very far), and I actually wore the album out from listening to it so much throughout middle school and high school. I must have listened to that album front-to-back at least 500 times by this point, and the record is very worn. I'm kind of paranoid about keeping a pristine copy, so I actually own three.
For that reason I've always associated Pluto with the album version of All is Full of Love (which is actually a remix of the original, but whatever). To me, Pluto is the apocalypse and AIFOL is the aftermath. They cannot be separated -- it's always weird when I hear it and it doesn't seamlessly transition afterwards.
...interesting, considering they're on different (albeit neighboring) albums. I kind of like the live version of Hyperballad/Pluto she did for Voltaïc and the Volta tours, especially with Mark Bell using Freak as a linking song. I don't like how he uses it to bludgeon the end of Hyperballad, though.
Yup, this is why! They go so perfectly together, IMO. Even while I was doing my live radio show, I'd sometimes play Hyperballad and then drop Pluto after the second chorus and build up. It just transitions so epicly.
Edit: Man, I forgot about that crazy techno transition. It's so rad! I would be dancing ridiculously!
Yup, this is why! They go so perfectly together, IMO. Even while I was doing my live radio show, I'd sometimes play Hyperballad and then drop Pluto after the second chorus and build up. It just transitions so epicly.
Edit: Man, I forgot about that crazy techno transition. It's so rad! I would be dancing ridiculously!
Oh? It sounds like you haven't heard of the song used. It was a minor hit called Freak, by the group LFO (no, not the boyband). Mark Bell was a founding member, and the group is kind of legendary in rave/electronic music circles.
Oh? It sounds like you haven't heard of the song used. It was a minor hit called Freak, by the group LFO (no, not the boyband). Mark Bell was a founding member, and the group is kind of legendary in rave/electronic music circles.
So So let's get this started with..KYARY PAMYU PAMYU (no rule agiasnt Jpop right?)
Kyary started as a fashion blogger, and then began her professional career as a model for Harajuku fashion magazines such as Kera! and Zipper. After achieving a measure of fame, she began to establish herself as a businesswoman by launching a line of fake eyelashes called "Harajuku Doll Eyelashes by Eyemazing x Kyary" and appearing at fashion shows.
Her first single "PONPONPON" was released back in July and the video was quite amazing and crazy. Her second single "Jelly" was released on August 3rd and is easy to purchase on iTunes.
She's new but she is charting a course for herself and bringing her adoring fans with her.
