"HUMAN BEHAVIOUR" BJORK (1993)

Inspired by Albumism, I’m doing my own version of Flying Solo with individual tracks. Band breakups and hiatuses are never fun, but these solo jams were defining moments in my life’s soundtrack.

I’ll admit, while I liked a small handful of Sugarcubes tracks, the band as a whole were just a little too cooky for me. But the minute Bjork went solo, I thought her music got instantly stronger, smarter and more poignant. It all started with a track called “Human Behaviour”.

Like her vocals with the Sugarcubes, the song still had her signature vocal gymnastics. It’s like she’s warming up in front of us and blowing our minds from the get go. But where things diverge are in the instrumentation. “Human Behavior” was still experimental and imaginative, but it wasn’t fraught with a dual personality dynamic. The song, in its entirety, was going in a single direction that was exciting and cool.

“If you ever get close to a human and human behavior, be ready, be ready to get confused and me and my here after. There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic to human behavior.”