Wanderlust

Björk à propos du titre Wanderlust
This one is my manifesto », says Björk. I had written a whole diary of what I wanted the lyric to be but I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. Sjon took it and came back with something totally different. And I took his version, edited it, put my own lines in. It took a while. It’s about that adventurous spirit and reflects where I was at that point in time. Even now, I’d write a different kind of anthem.

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Damian Taylor à propos du titre Wanderlust
From memory Björk wanted the morse code for "Wanderlust, relentlessly craving Wanderlust". She was more into the effect of the dots and dashes layering over each other then specifically trying to communicate words in morse code, we just thought it would be a laugh if it actually said something ! The brass rhythms (obviously) aren’t morse, so it was more about combining in with their rhythms and becoming more chaotic and layered. I’m not sure if many or any of the full phrase found their way onto the record, I think what people have rightly noticed is that there are a lot of "Wanderlust"s layered on top of each other » .... .. ... - .... .-. . .- -.. .- .-.. .— .- -.— ... — .- -.- . ... — . .... .- .—. .—. -.-

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the video for Wanderlust
With Wanderlust too...that song’s the heart of the album. It’s a very restless heart that doesn’t want an origin, so the video had to fit that too. The song’s taking the piss a bit, it’s so intense – that’s my sense of humour, which people don’t get a lot. You know, that need for mad restlessness in the doubling up of words, like the song goes : "restless, restlessly".

TheLipster.com, April 9 2008

Wanderlust
I have periods when I’m hungry for something new. I’m quite hungry right now. And then I have periods when I’m more domestic. I kind of make fun of my hunger on the new album in a track called "Wanderlust." It’s about the state of looking for something and almost knowing you’re never going to find it

Interview Magazine, august 2007

Wanderlust
wanderlust was written when i had bought a boat and lived on it for a while sailing between islands and cities we were living in harbours for a while where it was easy to fall in love with the symphony of shiphorns i put samples of them on a small midi drum kit and was playing around then got obsessed with morse code patterns i got the wonderful girls in wonderbrass to play (i recommend playing staccato morsecodes on brass instruments if you are eager for lushious lips)

Björk - Octobre 2021