song of the week

bjork, 'earth intruders'

after the misstep of his new solo album, i was a bit concerned about timbaland's future plans for 2007. although he is working with m.i.a. and missy elliott on their new albums that are both slated for release this year, i was afraid of the train wreck that could ensue with perhaps his greatest challenge yet--bjork. however, after listening to lead single 'earth intruders', from her forthcoming album 'volta', i cannot help but feel the same sense of elation i did about a year ago when i heard what i thought was his strongest and most left-field collaboration yet with nelly furtado's brilliant and still catchy single 'promiscuous'. 'earth intruders' is lyrically aggressive and sonically bombastic, bouncy, and rhythmic--a perfect marriage between bjork's personal style and timbaland's production genius. i read an interview some time ago that timbaland said it's his eventual goal to own top 40 and music in general. he's not to far off with his deft and funky ability to produce some of the best popular music of the past decade.

'earth intruders' is now available on itunes and the album is expected to drop may 8.

"I flew straight from [Indonesia] to New York and met with Timbaland, who got a private jet or something and met me in the studio," Björk said. "So it was like two extreme kinds of worlds. And I'm not criticizing him, I mean, good for him, I can understand it's a totally different context...it's really hard to put into words.

"'Earth Intruders' was the first beat he [Timbaland] put on, and it just all came up, that sort of fantasy that maybe a tsunami of people would just come and hit the White House and scrape it off the ground and do some justice and spread these people all around the planet...

"I could see all these people in Indonesia that lost everything just kind of coming up, and everybody in Africa-- because they were asking me to go there and fight, to be one of the people to address AIDS-- just seeing those people, one sees pictures, but then meeting them is something else. Just a wave of people."--bjork on 'earth intruders'

courtesy of pitchforkmedia