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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

10. Bjork‘Human Behaviour’

Of course, I’d spent a bit of time marvelling at that crazy pitched female voice in The Sugarcubes. Who didn’t? When I heard Björk had gone out on her own to push into a more electronic hybrid, I had high expectations of her first singles. This song didn’t disappoint. Those rhythms scraping out of the thick ambient background, danceable yet cerebral and the uncontrolled voice, that would be the standout! No filters or compressors to contain it, that was exactly the point.

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