Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! by The Sugarcubes

Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!, the Sugarcubes' second album, arrived on 20 September 1989 with a title borrowed in spirit from Mr. Toad of The Wind in the Willows, and there's plenty of Toad's reckless glee in the grooves. The Reykjavik band followed Life's Too Good with something jumpier and odder: Björk's voice leaps from a coo to a shriek, Einar Örn Benediktsson barks and blows trumpet alongside her, and Þór Eldon's guitar and Bragi Ólafsson's bass tangle over Sigtryggur Baldursson's clattering drums.

Einar's bigger share of the singing was exactly what critics grumbled about, and the record never got the debut's warm welcome. "Regina" broke through anyway, climbing to number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, with "Tidal Wave" and "Planet" following. It still went to number 15 in the UK and topped the indie chart there, and an Icelandic-language version, Illur Arfur!, came out under the name Sykurmolarnir.

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