Life's Too Good is an astoundingly original record. God knows what they were thought of in Iceland when they first started out. It holds so many moments of perfect pop music, be they edgy, mellifluous or surreal. Bjork contorts her voice even more than she has done in her solo career. 'Birthday' is the high point in this regard. While the goonish ramblings of Einar Orn made subsequent Sugarcubes albums unnecessarily patchy, his contributions on this, the debut album, come off as inspired and spectral commentaries on sideburns and stuff like that. Its not to be dismissed lightly. Imagine a bunch of loopy 1980s Beck types isolated in the North Sea making music to make the halibut boogie.