2023-11-24 17:24:57
Oral: Björk and Rosalía are committed to protesting once morest Norwegian mass salmon farming in Iceland with orchestral art pop on a winding downtempo raggaeton groove.
For this form of environmental protest, Björk finds the avant-garde nature of the more difficult to grasp Cornucopiatour as a group back to their fantastic pop roots: Oral comes from the archives and was originally created in 1998 Homogenic (1997) and In the evening (2001), i.e. practically in Prime Björk times, which is made abundantly clear even in the now revised form by the immediately uplifting chorus and magnificent melodic sequences, whose uplifting grace is truly magical.
The Icelandic woman and her young Spanish colleague (whose previous output can subjectively be seen as a milestone in no longer having personal access to the songwriting of younger generations that feels like they only have low attention spans) harmonize wonderfully with each other vocally. The symphonic arrangements have a dreamy beauty without drifting into kitsch.
Björk and Rosalía indulge in existentialist questions (“Is that the right thing to do?/ Oh, I just don’t know.“) to a longing romance that is even a little consumed with desire (“Come on, please, can I kiss him?“), while the beats from Sega Bodega, which are not at all spooled, subtly flirt with reggae, and Oral blooms so lovingly and optimistically that you feel like you’re witnessing the blissful end credits of a latently quirky, trendily hip, but certainly anachronistically inspiring fairy tale: the best (although perhaps not as iconic as its radiant pre-millennium material) Björk-Single since Stonemilker actually does, as prolonged by its author, “happy“.
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