Bjork: 'Declare Independence'

Bjork's Volta album might feature a trio of relatively commercial Timbaland collaborations, but it also offers numerous glimpses of the Icelandic pop pixie at her most ingenious and avant-garde. 'Declare Independence', the disc's third single, is very much an example of the latter.

It begins ominously, with Bjork chanting "Declare independence! Don't let them do that to you" over a rumbling, Prodigy-style bassline, before taking a turn towards white noise territory with some fat, stomping beats and drill-like electro bleeps. When combined with the typically bonkers/brilliant video, in which Bjork rallies workers in an eerily efficient factory of the future, everything falls into place. Had Arthur Scargill been born in 2150, this is what he'd hear in his head on the teleport to work every morning.


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