Björk Gets Personal

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 30 January 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Jon Pareles tells Ben Ratliff about club-hopping with Björk in Iceland and listening to her new album, “Vulnerica,” which was released last week.

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0:00.0	Moments of Clothed
0:06.9	Clotty are so rare.
0:09.2	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast,
0:10.8	your whale bone ballastrade of music news and cultural estrangement.
0:14.3	I'm your host Ben Ratliff. fears all that matters is
0:30.0	is a who is open, trusted, and who hands? You're hearing Stone Milker from Bjork's new record Volkura.
0:51.0	John Perrelis.
0:52.0	He Ben. You traveled to Reykjavik not too long ago to interview
0:56.7	Bjork in her house to talk about this record which was more or less finished at the time.
1:03.0	Well, actually it was still unfinished.
1:04.3	They were still mixing parts of it.
1:05.8	Some of the things have changed since she played it for me.
1:07.8	And this was back in November.
1:09.2	In November, right.
1:10.3	And you were planning to write a piece that would come out a little bit later
1:13.8	than now but some circumstances changed. The album was leaked and
1:18.4	B. Ork's quote impulsive response was to put out the digital version immediately.
1:24.3	Now you spoke to her in November but you also spoke to her since then, since the leak and
1:28.8	the official release.
1:30.7	Can you talk about her decision to release it? Why did it feel right?
1:34.3	Well for her she just wanted to get it out. I mean this is a cathartic emotional album
1:38.9	it's directly about her breakup with Matthew Barney after 13 years.
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