Björk Scares The Hell Out Of Me.

Björk was the musical guest on SNL last night, performing two new songs off her new album "Volta", due out on May 7th 2007. Can't say that I've ever been a big Björk fan, but this new album has me intrigued (not quite excited yet) and this for a few reasons:

1) Seven songs were produced by Timbaland, who's been garnering quite the commercial success track record these days with international guilty pleasures such as "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado and "SexyBack" by Justin Timberlake.

2) Congolese folk/alternative/electronic ensemble Konono N°1 collaborated on the album, you just have to listen to a couple of their songs and you'll agree with me that this will definitely make things quite interesting indeed.

3) For someone who's known for not touring all that much to promote her albums, Björk is going to be hitting almost every summer festival out there : Coachella, Glastonbury, Roskilde, even the first edition of the V Festival in Toronto (no word on Osheaga yet...keep your fingers crossed people!).

4) Björk has also launched a "competition" of sorts, in which the winner gets to make the music video for "Innocence". Power to the people = good idea. Nice one Björk

So interesting news from an interesting artist, to say the least...we'll just have to wait and see how it all pans out on May 7th now won't we?

So here you go, clips of her 2 SNL performances for the single "Earth Intruders" (very strange) and "Wanderlust" (pretty good)

Enjoy.

Earth Intruders :


Wanderlust :