“Hunter” by Björk

Björk made "Hunter" with Mark Bell for Homogenic, her 1997 album: a brooding bed of strings and piled-up synths, marched along by a beat with a military snap. Eumir Deodato arranged it, with the Icelandic String Octet, Guy Sigsworth's clavichord and pipe organ, and Alasdair Malloy's glass harmonica in the mix. Beneath its cryptic talk of a mission, the song is about the pressure she felt to keep writing once she saw how many people's livelihoods hung on her.

She debuted it at the 1997 Tibetan Freedom Concert. As the album's third single it came out in France and then, in October 1998, in Britain, where it stalled at No. 44 despite warm reviews. Longtime collaborator Paul White's video turns a bald Björk into a strangely animated polar bear, flesh fusing with machine, and critics adored it.

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