I saw Bjork’s new single Declare Independence on Friday night’s Rage and, as is usual with Bjork, I was going ‘huh?’. I finally got it figured out. It was clearly a skipping rope dying machine tangled up with soldiers and Bjork urging them to fight for factory workers’ rights. Well clearly
But no. It was actually guitar strings trundling around on a pulley system and it was in fact about the Faroe Islands and Greenland (thanks Wiki). Well clearly, I can see that now. She’s quite something, eh?
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1 warthog // Dec 19, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Weren’t they in a woolie weaving shed?
The song was bobbins an all.
I preferred when she just lay on her bed, her eyes wide open, being, as she was, in love again.
check out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhT_HihW30s
2 squib // Dec 19, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Bobbins? Huh? Whatzat?
Yep that song is good, a recent one I like is Earth Invaders. I particularly like the paper marbling
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