Björk has shared a model new single known as ‘Atopos’ – you’ll be able to hearken to it beneath.
The music serves as the primary preview of the Icelandic artist’s tenth studio album ‘Fossora’, which is because of arrive on September 30 by way of One Little Impartial Information (pre-order right here).
“May you please play it loudly?” Björk requested followers on Twitter in the present day (September 6) upon releasing her abrasive, bass-heavy newest providing.
“The lyrics are impressed by what Roland Barthes described because the unclassifiable OTHER ‘our variations are irrelevant our union is stronger than us’.”
In a separate tweet, Björk defined: “[‘Atopos’ is] sonically a heavy bottom-ended bass world. We’ve got six bass clarinets, punchy sub-drilling, nesting and digging us into the bottom.”
The surreal official video for the only – directed by Viðar Logi – follows Björk as she events in an otherworldly fungal atmosphere. She stars because the “glowing forest sprite” character that seems on the ‘Atopos’ cowl art work.
Gabber Modus Operandi’s DJ Kasimyn, in the meantime, spins tracks within the mushroom forest as a bass clarinet part carry out dwell. Tune in right here:
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right here is the primary video of my album to the music “atopos”
may you please play it loudly?the lyrics are impressed by what roland barthes described because the unclassifiable OTHER
“our variations are irrelevant
our union is stronger than us”warmthness
björk pic.twitter.com/K2IkUoPSi9— björk (@bjork) September 6, 2022
Talking beforehand in regards to the forthcoming ‘Fossora’, Björk defined that the file is about “a phrase i made up. It’s the female of fossore (digger, delver, ditcher), so in brief it means ‘she who digs’ ( into the bottom ).”
She mentioned: “Every album all the time begins with a sense that I attempt to form into sound. This time across the feeling was touchdown on the earth and digging my toes into the bottom.
“It was additionally woven into how I skilled the ‘now’. This time round 7 billion of us did it collectively nesting in our houses quarantining being lengthy sufficient in a single place that we shot down roots.”
In October 2021, Björk mentioned that the LP had been created “for people who find themselves making golf equipment at house of their front room” through the COVID-enforced lockdowns.
You may see the complete tracklist for ‘Fossora’ beneath.
‘Atopos’
‘Ovule’
‘Mycelia’
‘Sorrowful Soil’
‘Ancestress’
‘Fagurt Er í Fjörðum’
‘Victimhood’
‘Permit’
‘Fungal Metropolis’
‘Trölla-Gabba’
‘Freefall’
‘Fossora’
‘Her Mom’s Home’
Two songs from the file – ‘Sorrowful Soil’ and’‘Ancestress’ – are mentioned to be directed tributes to the singer’s mom, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, who died in 2018 aged 72.
“I feel me and my brother weren’t able to … we thought she had 10 years left,” Björk instructed The Guardian. “So we had been like: ‘Come on,’ and getting her to battle and … and it was like she had an inside clock in her and he or she was simply able to go.”
In the meantime, Björk has additionally launched a brand new podcast sequence through which she displays on the creation of every of her studio albums.
