Stonemilker

Björk à propos de Stonemilker
It’s about someone who’s trying to get emotions out of another person. The whole song is emotionally about wanting clarity, wanting simplicity, and talking to someone who wants things to be really complex and foggy and unclear. And you saying, ok, I’ve got clarity : want it or not ? So it’s sort of celebrating simplicity and clarity...

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Björk à propos de Stonemilker
I was walking on a beach and I was walking back and forth and the lyrics came along without me really editing them. The strength of this album is really simplicity and the thinking out loud feeling. And I shouldn’t be too clever. It would work against it. So, I kind of just went with the first words that came … [they’re] probably the most obvious lyrics I’ve ever written.”

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Björk à propos de Stonemilker
It was very important that the strings were cyclical, this chord cycle that gives you this feeling it can go on and on in circles. It gives you this feeling of equilibrium, like the person who’s singing the song is showing some sort of harmony to someone as an example. ... It’s trying, in the most harmonious way possible, to prove a point [laughs]. Because I think staying emotionally open, it’s a choice. I think it’s equally hard for all of us, and we’re just all doing our best, but there’s also a choice : Do you want to try, and maybe fail ... or is it your choice to not even try ?

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Björk à propos de Stonemilker
I’m mostly a singer, but I think the way I sing is I usually wait for a day that I’m kind of probably more impulsive than other days in one way or another [laughs]. So when I sing, I go to this place where it’s more similar to when I’m doing a concert — I will not have so much of my brain in there [laughs]. I’ll just warm up my voice, have a coffee and jump in the deep end, where you’re more a performer.

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Stonemilker
stonemilker was written on a beech next to grótta in 2012. which is really close to harpa music hall, where we will perform it. the song for me is cyclical, a big of a mini-fugue, therefore i asked andy huang who did the video with me if i could walk around the camera in circles and include the panorama surrounding it. there is an emotional attempt in it to be inclusive and with the circular movement unite all, everything , between 2 people

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