Hey people, how you been? It’s just past young Comrade Magenta Lapin’s birthday and that seems like as good a time as any for this particular magnificent 7″, she loves Bjork. This, The Sugarcubes debut single, seemed at first to arrive here from another planet. Maybe it was The Clangers backing up the girl with the beautiful wayward voice? The music was filled with odd rhythms and curious sounds, maybe it was just that we first heard it in Icelandic but didn’t know that yet. It came with an odd video too, really shoddy, grainy quality black & white of her singing in what looked like a classroom. Looking back 20 odd years it’s hard to explain just how other and unfamiliar it seemed. People compared it to the Cocteau Twins, which now seems hilariously wide of the mark. English lyrics (Icelandic version on the B-side) and realising it was a trumpet did little to dim it’s beauty and while The Sugarcubes where a good band (especially live) they gradually lost their teeth and this very first impression of them stands head and shoulders above anything else they ever did. Bjork herself on the other hand…..
they don’t, as best we can tell have an official site so here’s a couple of fan efforts – myspace – blogspot (has pics and stuff about the one off reunion last year)- Amazon - Birthday is from their debut album Life’s Tooo Good – easily their best and fun throughout
