Björk performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Feb. 5, 2022. Courtesy Santiago Felipe. SAN FRANCISCO — You can look at utopia as an ideal to strive toward, or you can caution about what will happen if people don’t strive for an ideal. Perhaps Utopia, the 2017 album…

The San Francisco Ballet, which was the first ballet company nationwide to shutter due to the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to share filmed performances online in lieu of actual of staged productions, and this week’s stream is its “Björk Ballet.” Set to nine songs by Björk, the 33-minute  ballet tells…

It was a long journey, but we’ve made it to the top 10. Before you get upset that I excluded your favorite album, let me first give a shout out to this year’s honorable mentions: The War on Drugs’ A Deeper Understanding, Algiers’ The Underside of Power, Cigarettes After Sex’s self-titled record,…

If we as listeners have anything to learn from Björk’s decades-spanning career, it’s that her music is not something you can punctuate or spin simply as background music—that would be a slight against her prestigious artistry. In fact, her music mandates a complete surrender of the senses in order…