Is there anyone (female) even close to her in terms of ability, talent, consistency, voice, aesthetic, personality, qtness, versatility around today? I'm trying hard to find one
>inb4 poobrains like grimes, julia holter
please, no
That's like asking for a second Bjork.
Often imitated, never duplicated.
nope
Kate Bush
>>64288372
i think op is asking for contemporary examples
but anyway i'd say grouper and victoria legrand
In the past, yes. Now, no
St. Vincent
>>64288407
Well Bush is still "around today" but I guess he wants artists who started relatively recently like you said.
>>64288210
yes: björk
she's still out there ya dummy
>>64288458
I never bought into St. Vincent. I'm not that big into Bjork but St. Vincent I forgot completely
>>64288428
I know it's so wrong because she deserves respect but I want to fuck Vashti like a rabid dog, look at those lips, you just know she's good at the succ. She's curvy too, the album cover for JADD shows off her womanly figure. I want to fucking destroy her and then nut all over her thick bush.
>>64288501
this, but I'm always subdued and respectful and stick to talking about her music usually. I don't want her to become a meme
>>64288210
Literally no one. Geniuses can't be replaced by any others, simple.
>>64288458
>>64288495
Not even close buddies.
>>64288407
>victoria legrand
>grouper
I love Grouper, but these examples seem to be more a joke than a serious answer desu.
what would you do if you ever met bjork
i'd share my favourite albums and talk about animal collective with her
>>64288210
Aurora
>>64289319
yeah that's my favourite bjork song too
>>64289352
:^)
>never heard a Bjork song before
>google her just now
>listen to first video hit
>something called lionsong
holy shit that was terrible
ITT: Borkfags waifufaggin again
>>64289138
ive met her before briefly, sees really nice
>>64289393
2avant-garde4u
>>64289393
plen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVHpBCjUu8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwSvmdZ1t_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbPYoaAiyc
>>64288210
taylor swift exceeds her in all things
>>64289449
>bjork
>avant-garde
This is what borkfags believe
I can't think of any female solo projects that are as good as Bjork, but there are a few bands with girls in them that are as good if not better.
>Boris
>Sonic Youth
>Smashing Pumpkins (well, some of their albums are really good)
Kimbra is pretty qt and talented. But she has yet to prove consistency.
Android Lust is like the female version of Nine Inch Nails.
She even made her own March of the Pigs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UkaY5fl09k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUoLIQR4Rg4
>>64289477
Yeah just screwing around but you have to admit she's got quite a few pretty experimental things in her discography. Though even her early straight pop stuff can put people off because of her voice and how she sings. I wish she would do something else with a normal singing voice like she did with the Sugarcubes.
>>64289638
She does experimental pop and electric trip hop and a number of things. What she does is pretty avant garde for a pop star though. I don't see Taylor Swift making an album like Medulla any time soon.
>>64289616
judy is my waifu
>>64289728
why can't all grills not be shit, Bjork is alone in being awesome, this makes me want to cry
>>64288210
It's obviously Grimes. Bjork is past her prime musically.
>>64289837
there's a million other artsy pixie girls out there you just have to look for them fäm
>>64289938
Grimes is the least applicable in this thread.
Also for being past her prime Bjork is still going pretty good considering her album last year was better than anything Grimes has released in her entire career.
>>64289953
they're all affectation
>>64289988
bjork's original nymph image was pretty artificial too i don't see your point
Does this make sense? What other artists come close to Bjork's level?
>Common things between Grimes & Bjork:
>weird voices
>quirky, playful personalities
>strange fashion sense
>interesting live shows
>acclaimed electronic music
>dedicated fanbase
>obscure albums before the proper breakthrough albums (Grimes has Geidi Primes & Halfaxa, Bjork has S/T album from 1977)
>eclectic music taste.
>>64290024
i believe in bjork
I wanna make a bjork character in Dark Souls 3, though I don't know what class she would be.
>>64289973
>Also for being past her prime Bjork is still going pretty good considering her album last year was better than anything Grimes has released in her entire career.
Exept that her latest album was boring. Listening to it feels like a chore. I'd rather hear any of her 90s albums again.
>>64289938
>implying Vulnicura isn't Bjork's best album
>>64290097
>Exept that her latest album was boring
You just have shit taste and ADD caused by listening to too much Grimes.
>>64290050
most of those are a stretch
>>64290058
if you believe in bjork you should believe in the other pixie chicks too otherwise you'll never have a gf like that
>>64290103
It's no Homogenic.
>>64289393
yeah, you shouldn't start with lionsong
I love that song now but absolutely hated it on first listen
>>64290111
>wrong assumptions
Do I have shit taste because I don't like a boring album? You're too much.
>>64290131
Homogenic is definitely second, and it is extremely close
>>64290163
You're totally overrating Vulnicura. It's just not that good. It doesn't have good songs. Except the opener, do you remember anything from it?
>>64290193
yes, every song
Family, Lionsong, History of Touches, Quicksand are all highlights
I actually listen to them more than Stonemilker these days
>>64290193
>person overrating Grimes telling other people they're overrating things
>>64290050
doesn't make any sense because grimes isn't talented and all her fanbase are tumblr fuccbois
>>64290239
I'm not overrating Grimes. She's really good. I'd be surprised if you listened to more Grimes than Visions and Art Angels.
H A C O
though i guess stylistically not very similar, but she's better in almost all the criteria given (qt quotient now isnt that high, but in the past whooo boy)
>>64290284
>grimes isn't talented
How do you know that? Every critic and their dog, many other musicians and many other listeners say that she's talented. Also you can see that she's talented through her songs. Stop denying the evidence.
>her fanbase
Doesn't count in this argument. We're on mu, not tumblr, dude.
Kek all these animal collective and Bjork circlejerkers but no one mentions Mum
How embarrassing this place is
>>64290515
Your mum?
Solex
She even has a weird singing style kind of like Bjork.
>>64290515
>Mum
kria brekkan hasn't been in that band for more than ten years
though somehow despite your standoffish attitude i doubt you are even aware mum is a band
>>64290589
Solex is too weird for her own good. No good songs and a monotone voice.
>>64290673
I don't think her voice is monotone. I don't think it's as expressive as Bjork most of the time but it goes up and down in tone and such while she sings depending on the song. And she's got some pretty good songs I think. What have you listened to by her? I imagine only Low Kick and Hard Bop since that's the only album most of the people I've seen talking about her have listened to.
>>64290732
I listened to just one album of her, Low Kick and Hard Bop. Not my cup of tea I guess. I will listen to it again tho.
Grimes is the new Debut and Post eras Bjork.
>>64290796
Rather than listening to that again might want to try Pick Up. If you don't like either of those albums I guess you just don't like her, which is fine.
Her latest album is instrumental though (and also less electronic) so you could try that too if you just don't like her voice. The collab she did with Jon Spencer in 2010 also doesn't really have her weird singing style and is pretty varied so that might help too.
>>64290916
Thanks for rec.
I hope Bjork releases a new album soon. I think I read something about maybe something coming out this year but I don't know where that was and it seems too soon.
Bump for more hot opinions
Joanna Newsom is the clear choice
>>64292609
She doesn't have any synths in her music like Bjork. She's also more conventional musically (except her voice).
>>64292609
Was gonna post this.
>>64289393
>starting a 20+year career with the first YouTube video
You don't deserve nice things.
Obviously
>>64291338
Too soon indeed, but I read her saying that he would like to release "an EP with using low notes with her voice" and something like this.
Stop fooling yourselves. You know it's Grimes. Electronic art pop, quirky, arty, weird voice, obsessed fanbase.
>>64288210
>>64293023
Stop fooling yourself, you know it isn't.
>>64288210
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfY1lfFu8j8
>>64293139
Who is it?
(Bjork pun)
>>64293023
Grimes is shit though so that can't be it
PJ Harvey
>>64293199
How she's shit when she's one of the most respected musicians at this moment?
>>64293023
>>64293260
Grimes' last shows have confirmed she's a total crap in singing and a bland musical performer with any real interesting ideas. She's rather interested in make stage dancing and acting like a crazy retard.
>>64293260
Taylor Swift is respected too.
>>64293462
Hold on a second... Are you seriously judging her artistry because of a sub par show (it was very fun actually)? A bland musical performer? Wtf? She's one of the most energetic and exciting performers at this very moment.
Also she's not acting like a crazy retard. If you believe that, what do you say about Bjork's video with that TV? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y
>>64293531
Yes, but not as much as Grimes. Grimes is seen as an art pop visionary, a one-woman-show, Taylor Swift it's just a mainstream pop princess.
>>64293015
I wanna hear Bjork over something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4znpQmVz9OM
>>64288210
I don't there is someone else.
Björk is one of the greatest minds of the contemporary scene in which to art is concerned. She has the ability to combine pure poetry, perfectly executed melodies, visual accompaniments that fit perfectly with each idea of what the songs represent, and last but not least, a unique voice that comes deep inside one and touches your inner sense like you never experienced before.
>>64289728
why the fuck do webms on /mu/ have sound disabled, it seems the most logical thing on a board about sounds and music to allow videos with sound
Fiona Apple
>>64292737
>She doesn't have any synths in her music like Bjork.
Divers, her new album, has multiple synths.
>>64294109
Would be cool to have sound on here.
>>64288210
why am I not allowed to like both Julia Holter and Bjork? Julia has the better compositional skills but Bjork has the better voice.
but Joanna Newsom trumps both of them
>>64295090
I honestly don't see how Joanna and Julia could even be related to Bjork in terms of musical influency.
>>64295090
>Julia has the better compositional skills
>>64289473
obvious bait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb7ed6FgVCc
Hello, I'm a hidden instrumental Bjork's gem which very few knows of, because people are pleb.
I like Bjork a lot but Vulnicura made me lose a great deal of respect for her. It feels impulsive and underwritten, like she ran into a studio to read livejournal posts. Very overt lyrics that pretty much equate to 'You hurt me, I don't deserve to be hut, you are the villain!'
It's shallow. A while I like Stonemilker the rest of the album is too sparse and avant-garde for the sake of it.
She produced hip hop beats over which she 'sing's? Hate to break it to you buddies but she isn't that many steps above grim-grim.
>>64295302
>"don't mind me i'm a retard just passing by"
>>64288210
PJ Harvey, although not as eccentric, is pretty close.
>>64288210
>aesthetic
M.I.A. trumps Bjork every time when it comes to aesthetic desu
>>64295299
Vulnicura is surely better than Biophilia and Volta, and it's an undeniable work of genuine emotion and raw, heartbreaking attitude you actually never heard from her. Saying it's underwritten it's an adjective out of place, you can obviously not like it due to her avant-garde tendencies, but it's a god damn beautiful album full of intense, dark and cathartic moments.
>>64295299
History of Touches was still a great song though.
And you can't deny that lionsong was great.
>>64295404
In your dreams.
>>64295555
Absolutely agree with this guy.
>>64295591
she looks great here
>>64295404
>aesthetic
>>64295962
I want to marry her
Her last appearance, she trolled the Brit Awards after winning.
>>64288210
Kate Bush is better.
>>64297054
She's like a superhero of music in this. Also her eyes are so damn bright.
>>64297054
she doesn't give a fuck about awards
>>64288210
Julia Holter
Juana Molina
Carla Kihlstedt
>>64292737
Why does having synths automatically make someone a better musician? Many have the same interface as a piano which Joanna plays.
>>64299384
I think he's saying they're not comparable because Bjork's music is more predominantly electronic than Newsom. That's pretty stupid though so I'd just ignore him.
>>64288210
Found a documentary on OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVevxHoEkuU
>>64288210
sachiko M
>>64299824
kek
>>64299538
remove this dusty ass meme
>>64293462
>Grimes' last shows have confirmed she's a total crap
Her last performance on BBC Radio 1 confirmed the opposite.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03rl182
>>64289558
lol nice contribution
