Art Pop
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the art pop music genre.
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Björk – “Vulnicura”
‘Vulnicura’ is an exhausting listen that rarely breaks form. Björk’s prioritizes sophistication over songwriting in her most stunted work so far. (read more)
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Siouxsie and The Banshees – “Hyæna”
Hyæna is probably Siouxsie and the Banshees’s most underrated album. It’s in sort of a rough spot, sandwiched between their best and most fully-realized albums and best general sound, but that’s also why it’s reliably more than meets the eye. It can be tempting to downplay how genuinely adventurous the Banshees were because they had… (read more)
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Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Through the Looking Glass” (1987)
Through the Looking Glass is one of the best albums by Siouxsie & The Banshees. Yeah, it’s a covers album, and those are often mediocre as hell, but this is the exact opposite. These covers are phenomenal and integrate perfectly into the Banshees’s distinctive style, yet there’s still a lot of structural variety on the… (read more)
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David Byrne – “Look Into the Eyeball”
Containing ‘Like Humans Do,’ an art-pop single packaged with early versions of Windows XP, former Talking Heads front man David Byrne delivers this solo album. (read more)
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Camille – “Music Hole”
Seriously, Music Hole is so much like Medúlla that I wonder if Björk can sue for copyright infringement. Probably not. I prefer the compositions of Medúlla I think, but prefer the voice of Camille. As such, they end up pretty close in quality for me, even though Medúlla is probably the greater technical achievement. That said, I still don’t like Medúlla,… (read more)
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Björk – “Homogenic”
Undoubtedly one of Björk‘s greatest albums, but I can’t imagine myself ever liking Homogenic more than Post. As a matter of fact, even putting aside my personal feelings, I still consider Post to be the superior album. Homogenic falls off a bit in the album’s second half, and lacks the adventurism of Post to help… (read more)