Debut

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

After the break-up of the Sugarcubes, Björk moved to London. The guitar rock of her previous group felt outdated, and the city's club culture showed her that house music was modern pop music. Many songs she had written years earlier, such as Human Behaviour. She first worked with Graham Massey of 808 State and with jazz musicians, but ultimately chose the producer Nellee Hooper. By early 1993 Debut was finished.

The album mixes electronic pop, house, jazz and trip hop. It sounds different from the grunge and Britpop of the time. On Aeroplane and The Anchor Song saxophonists can be heard, led by Oliver Lake, and Like Someone in Love is a jazz standard. British critics were full of praise, American reviews mixed. The album sold better than expected and remained her best-selling record in the United States.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Human Behaviour4:12Apple Music ↗
2. 2Crying4:51Apple Music ↗
3. 3Venus as a Boy4:43Apple Music ↗
4. 4There's More to Life Than This (Live at the Milk Bar Toilets)3:22Apple Music ↗
5. 5Like Someone in Love4:33Apple Music ↗
6. 6Big Time Sensuality3:57Apple Music ↗
7. 7One Day5:24Apple Music ↗
8. 8Aeroplane3:54Apple Music ↗
9. 9Come to Me4:55Apple Music ↗
10. 10Violently Happy4:59Apple Music ↗
11. 11The Anchor Song3:41Apple Music ↗

30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗