Björk – Telegram (1996)

January 22, 2023

Remix albums are always a dark art, purely by the nature of their individual component parts usually being submitted by multiple different artists. It is hard to make it work, at least as an enjoyable coherent listen. Telegram is all over the place and doesn’t flow very well at all, but there are some excellent stand outs.

First up, it is worth mentioning the stand-alone original track “My Spine”, which is an out-take or a b-side or something like that, and is actually really cool. Telegram is worth listened to for the Brodsky Quartet version of “Hyperballad” alone, but there are a few others worth mentioning: the Further Over The Edge Mix of “Enjoy” is great, as is the Dobie Rub (Dub?) version of “I Miss You”. The take here of “Army Of Me” sounds like something Scorn would have done in the Evanescence era.

Wonder why the Carcass version of “Isobel” didn’t make it onto this CD. LOL