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Concert édité en CD bootleg sous le titre Björk London.
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Review
Eccentric Icelandic warbler in mass popularity shock
No wonder Björk lost her voice on her recent American tour. Considering how cruelly she treats it, she should have been mute for years. At Wembley Arena on Thursday, she tried to beat it into submission, testing its unique superpowers to their limits as if thinking : “OK, you could handle that shriek... let’s see what you make of this growl.”
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She put on the same show as she did a few months ago at the Reading Festival, and which was reviewed here at the time. But to recap : Björk is enlightening and light-hearted, Icelandic and outlandish. Her four musicians stay in the background—very wise when you consider the speed at which she springs around. She has acres of stage, and a catwalk projecting into the crowd—and still you wonder if there’s enough room.
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Musically, she tiptoes, frolics, skips and jumps across boundaries. You’d call her a true rock ‘n’ roll rebel, except that she appears less deliberately rebellious than completely unaware of the rules that constrain even the most iconoclastic punks. Discordant verses fly us away to scary, unknown landscapes ; then poppy choruses welcome us back, exhausted and exhilarated, to comfortable territory. “Venus as a Boy” is dressed in harpsichord frills, “Hyperballad” is decked out in bongos, accordion, and assorted bleeps and whistles. The arrangements are so extraordinary that they make her studio albums sound conventional : as conventional as the albums of any other mainstream chart act.
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Because that is what is most amazing. Five years ago, if you had peered into the future and seen this concert, you’d never have believed that it was by a commercial pop star. But Björk sells millions of records, wins Brit Awards, and her electrifying charisma has arenas of 12,000 people cheering (“Sink chew,” she replies). And yet we shouldn’t underestimate her weirdness. We shouldn’t underestimate her, full stop.Nicholas Barber - The Independent
