Bjork – 10 recommended downloads

The Daily Telegraph, allegedly the favoured news source of ageing English Home Counties conservatives, has made laudable efforts to lose its fuddy duddy image in recent years, and nowhere more so than in its increasingly catholic arts coverage.

The Thursday edition carries a substantial, eclectic music section, which is always worth a glance on the web page. The Perfect Playlist feature, recommending ten tracks by that week’s subject, often covers music for grown-ups, among some ill-chosen riff-raff.

Last Thursday’s Perfect Playlist covered ten recommended tracks to sample the catalogue of the wonderful Bjork, from her early Icelandic days with The Sugarcubes, to 2004’s Medulla. Nice article, and the site invites you to download the tracks for about £10.

If you still think of The Daily Telegraph as merely a rest home for Olde Fartes, perhaps it’s time to think again.


www.telegraph.co.uk



Gerry Smith