Bastardo

Well this came out of leftfield. Perhaps we just haven't been paying as much attention to Björk as we should have been, but suddenly she announces her second full length remix album: Bastards.

First, in 1996, there was Telegram, following the huge commercial success of Post. Now there's Bastards. Björk explains her decision to revisit the remix album thusly:

I picked a quarter of them for one cd for people who are perhaps not too sassy downloaders or don't have the time or energy to partake in the hunter-gathering rituals of the internet

SASSY! Björk has categorised downloaders into two camps: the sassy and the not sassy. Does she mean savvy? Does she literally mean sassy? Is she imagining people sat in front of iTunes or The Hype Machine clicking their fingers in a Z formation as they download the latest Biophilia remix package?

Anyway this is what the tracklist is going to be like:

1. "Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Remix)"
2. "Virus (Hudson Mohawke "Peaches and Guacamol" Rework)"
3. "Sacrifice (Death Grips Remix)"
4. "Sacrifice ((Matthew Herbert's Pins and Needles Mix) edit)"
5. "Mutual Core (These New Puritans Remix feat. Soloman Is. Song)"
6. "Hollow (16-bit Remix)"
7. "Mutual Core (Matthew Herbert's "Teutonic Plates" Mix)"
8. "Thunderbolt (Death Grips Remix)"
9. "Dark Matter (Alva Noto Remodel)"
10. "Thunderbolt (Omar Souleyman Remix)"
11. "Solstice (Current Value Remix)"
12. "Moon (The Slips Remix)"
13. "Crystalline (Matthew Herbert Remix)"

(Ed: can we just say it's an absolute crime that this wondrous gem, arguably the best Biophilia remix by far, has been missed off?) 

And seeing as we love to do these and we're here, here's what the artwork looks like next to some of her other artwork: