Details TK ("tracklist: no") but...
http://shop.bjork.com/pre-order.html
― maura, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXS5nimFcog/?hl=en&taken-by=bjork
"warmthness, bjork"
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
I really love how she compliments visually every album and tour but I haven't felt particularly interested in anything she's done since Medulla. I've listened to every one of her albums at least 10 times and nothing of her recent material sticks out to me (safe from the music videos and the amazing dresses, maybe a couple of musical moments here and there). She has long deviated from making pop, her more recent experiments aren't particularly interesting or innovative to my ears and even though she is usually joined by great string players or electronic producers I don't know how to describe it properly but I feel it all sounds very sharp... like it's missing something
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
for someone who is clearly very warm towards music and people, her production choices end up in the cold spectrum for me.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
feel the same way moka for the most part.
Did like the last one because it was aesthetically a retread of Homogenic in some ways
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
While Vulnicura was probably her first release in a decade that actually moved me (i.e. it wasn't just stuff that I appreciated/admired but not loved), it was a bit too dark/depressing to listen to on a daily basis. So I'm having high hopes for this one. Apparently Arca's on board again - which will probably mean sharp/cold production, well, he's her new right hand now - but there are going to be flutes/woodwinds instead of strings this time, and it's her 'Tinder' album (lol) - about searching for utopia and being in love. She's used words like 'happy,' 'dreamworld' and 'paradise' to describe it. I wonder how it'll translate to the sound. I'm not hoping for a return to her 90s art-pop beginnings but something lush, beautiful and emotional like Vespertine would be great.
― mthrn, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
It's a retread of homogenic but much older... heartbroken but lacking that sense of wonder of what's next. I can't deal with that sort of statements at this point in my life tbh. Maybe in a couple of years.
Hopefully this new album is different, I miss her more playful side.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
I don't know how to describe it properly but I feel it all sounds very sharp... like it's missing something
I think the problem for me is she has largely neglected to write catchy melodies for her last 3 or so albums, she just does this kind of warbling up and down the scale thing.
― chap, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
Some of the Vulnicura songs have stayed with me, but yeah I feel ya about lack of catchy melodies since... Vespertine? I mean, I appreciate that she has kept trying to push forward, but it's just lost me. I still check out each new album to see if it finally connects with me the way the first four albums did
― Vinnie, Thursday, 3 August 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
I didn't like the last one much and REALLY didn't like Volta but I dig Biophillia more than most people it seems :C
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 3 August 2017 09:18 (six years ago) link
I was very cool on Biophilia initially but for some reason it clicked after I ignored it for a year.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
Some tidbits from a new piece in Dazed:
1. The focus of the album this time are flutes and woodwinds instead of strings.2. The overall vibe of the record is light / airy / weightless, with only a few heavier moments.3. Songs feature samples of birdsong and natural sounds; some sampled from David Toop's 1980 album Hekura, some recorded by Björk & Arca in Venezuela.4. Arca is back as the co-producer, this time working with Björk from scratch. He apparently pushed her to explore further territories she only scratched with tracks like "Batabid" or "Ambergris March".5. The album is not exactly political but it's about creating a future utopia, both in a personal and universal sense.6. Possible first single - a love song called "The Gate" with a video directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.7. One of the most melodic and straightforward tracks is called "Allow" and it's about her friendship with Arca. She's not sure yet if it'll be included on the album.8. "Loss" is a song recorded with Rabit and it features his crushing jackhammer rhythms.9. The song "Features Creatures" (lol) describes the feeling of seeing someone with the same beard and accent as a lover. BTW Björk is allegedly dating Tri Angle's Robin Carolan.10. No title or release date yet but 'very soon'.
― mthrn, Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
Thanks for that!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
Ugh not too keen on Arca coming back as a producer his style is very claustrophobic for bjork.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
maybe Bjork albums are better 'in description' these days. Cause that list sounds bloody awesome, yet I can only echo Moka's sentiment in the 'actuality of listening' to her recent output.
― Ludo, Thursday, 3 August 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
i didn't like volta at all and it did kind of put me off her for a while. I'll always listen but I feel similar to many here. Vespertine I loved; and I don't know if I'll love another album of hers like that again, but I'll always hope
― akm, Thursday, 3 August 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
I think Drawing Restraint 9 is where it started to go a bit awry. Even Volta felt like it was straining to be fun. chap OTM about her vocal melodies.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 3 August 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
New single “The Gate” out digitally on September 18th and on single-sided 12” vinyl on September 22nd.Video by Andrew Thomas Huang coming next week.
http://shop.bjork.com/the-gate.html
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
http://icelandairwaves.is/line-up/490027 !?
― StanM, Thursday, 7 September 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
ok, not with her anymore. Google translated: "Tappi Tikarrass was born in 1981 and worked until 1983. At the beginning the band was composed of four boys from Reykjavík and later added to the singer Björk. The band drew a lot of attention at the time, for example, in the film Rokk in Reykjavík. The band was revived in 2015 and today the band consists of Eyþór Arnalds, Jakob Smári Magnússon, Eyjólfur Jóhannsson and Guðmundur Þór Gunnarsson, all the original members of the band. The band has finished recording a new album and has released two new songs this year, Spak and Listen."
― StanM, Thursday, 7 September 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
I have had a really intense Bjork rennaisance lately, in the past 48h I have listened to:
DebutPostDebut LivePost LiveVespertineHomogenicHomogenic LiveVespertine Live
― northwest pass-agg (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
I have discovered a LOT, namely this track where she breaks out into "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e57qKloIHrM
and this magnificent thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb-pobBiKkI
― northwest pass-agg (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
“The Gate” is out now.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YmQRn9i1ZDRfMUt5M80Cv
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 15 September 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
This is heavy Medulla mode Bjork. Probably not going to be into this until after 5 years, if I live that long.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
wasn't expecting anything so wafty... one day I'll listen to the last album :/
― fndgo, Friday, 15 September 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
This track is v boring
― northwest pass-agg (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 15 September 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
Hate to say it, but I agree. Seems like I tend to like Bjork more when she's upset than when she's content.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
Oh except she's not content here. Oh well, guess I'm just not smitten atm.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I kind of expected it to sound like this. Oh well.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 15 September 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
I’m not feeling the new track either; except for the gorgeous intro it sounds like a boring Biophilia outtake but with Arca’s production shtick (that I’m kind of over). But apparently the rest of the album is very different sound-wise. Airy and happy. She has put together a twelve-piece Icelandic flute ensemble and they are featured on the record. So I’ll hold my judgement until I hear the whole thing.
(The title is Utopia, by the way.)
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 15 September 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Same. She was comparing it at least thematically in interviews to Vespertine, so I have no choice but to trust her.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Wow... It's like I've been listening to a different track entirely than all of you. This is beautiful, and miles away from Medulla.
Don't mind me, but if you call such an intimate, skin-on-skin song "dull" or "boring", then maybe Björk isn't for you anymore? Idk. I just don't get the negative responses. This sounds very much in line with Vespertine, minus the icicle Matmos production, stripped of sonicry. I agree it probably needs to be heard in the context of the album. But this is not dull, nor boring.
Sparse, minimal (those two alone rule out Medulla refs already imo), stark naked (like Vulnicura was). While I agree that this could be an unfortunate choice for a single (whatever a "single" means nowadays for artists who work album-wise, like Björk), the song itself is great. I am so on board, yet again.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 15 September 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
with LBI on this
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Ross <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
getting a selected ambient works 2 vibe from this
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
Utopia (out in November)
https://pitchfork.com/news/bjork-reveals-new-album-title/
― StanM, Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link
oh, we already knew - sorry :-)
https://www.nowness.com/story/bjork-the-gate-alessandro-michele-andrew-thomas-huang-james-merry
Whatever piece of music that opens the video, I like very much. And I admit the song has more impact with the visual accompaniment.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Monday, 18 September 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
great video, excited about bjork again
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:24 (six years ago) link
in the spirit of #metoo i would like to lend women around the world a hand with a more detailed description of my experience with a danish director . it feels extremely difficult to come out with something of this nature into the public , especially when immediately ridiculed by offenders . i fully sympathise with everyone who hesitates , even for years . but i feel it is the right time especially now when it could make a change . here comes a list of the encounters that i think count as sexual harassment :1 after each take the director ran up to me and wrapped his arms around me for a long time in front of all crew or alone and stroked me sometimes for minutes against my wishes2 when after 2 months of this i said he had to stop the touching , he exploded and broke a chair in front of everyone on set . like someone who has always been allowed to fondle his actresses . then we all got sent home .3 during the whole filming process there were constant awkward paralysing unwanted whispered sexual offers from him with graphic descriptions , sometimes with his wife standing next to us .4 while filming in sweden , he threatened to climb from his room´s balcony over to mine in the middle of the night with a clear sexual intention , while his wife was in the room next door . i escaped to my friends room . this was what finally woke me up to the severity of all this and made me stand my ground5 fabricated stories in the press about me being difficult by his producer . this matches beautifully the weinstein methods and bullying . i have never eaten a shirt . not sure that is even possible .6 i didnt comply or agree on being sexually harassed . that was then portrayed as me being difficult . if being difficult is standing up to being treated like that , i´ll own it .hopelet´s break this cursewarmthbjörk
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
I was not aware of this. Fuck Lars Von Trier.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
As a lot of people noted, though, she was pretty clear at the time that the experience soured her on both acting and Von Trier. This is an angrier underscoring as to why.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Yes, fuck Von Trier.Also, fuck his sleazy production team for enabling it and framing Björk afterwards as the crazy/difficult one with their ridiculous stories, and now claiming "they were the victims" and that "she dictated everything and was about to close a movie of 100m kroner". Boo-fucking-hoo.And fuck Catherine Deneuve for being a sexual harrasment apologist and perpetuating Von Trier's lies in interviews for years.
Very proud of Björk for coming out with this story.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
No way in hell I'll watch another Von trier after this
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
Talentless cunt anyway.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 08:47 (six years ago) link
I think of all the noisy, pretentious edgelord type eejits of the movie industry in this era, he seems the most talentless and most unbearable personality disorder type of the lot. I can't imagine how anyone could sit through a movie like Nymphomaniac, unless they are being paid or someone is holding a gun to their head. I'm glad Bjork is mirking him up. But can't help feeling if there was a just God in this universe, then this fucker would have been taken out by an icicle of piss decades ago.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 09:44 (six years ago) link
With a movie like "Nymphomanica", the non-rhetorical question that should spring to anyone's mind is "Why did he make this film?"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
LOL, spot on. All of these 'noisy, pretentious edgelord types' are fucking shit anyway. (xp)
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 09:57 (six years ago) link
Ah, this is a Bjork thread, mildly going off topic there.
Amongst other things then, it's a damn shame as it's clear that Bjork would have made a great actor had she done more films. She was pretty amazing in that one film..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 09:57 (six years ago) link
i feel like i'm listening to a different album than you guys; can't get with this at all.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
Yeah it really did nothing for me either. Tried twice but nothing resonated. Clunky lyrics too.
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
It's not as consistent as Vulnicura, but there were several tracks I liked ("Sorrowful Soil", "Ancestress", many in the second half). "Her Mother's House", the closer with her daughter (who sings quite well!), is maybe my favorite song she's put out since Vespertine
― Vinnie, Friday, 7 October 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
i played this through four times! I still barely remember it except not liking it! it's somehow teflon to me.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 October 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
First listen really positive, even if vocal parts > instrumental parts.
― Nabozo, Friday, 7 October 2022 08:33 (one year ago) link
I think I need to wait six months and try it after the shine of the new is gone. I can't connect with it either but I can also feel myself in "analytic mode" when it's on. Hard to simply let it play without expectation.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 7 October 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
Maybe, but Uptopia is still basically impenetrable to me.
― Eric H., Friday, 7 October 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
I’m positive my not caring for her stuff since the wet noodle of a Timbaland collab has helped me embrace this new one. I only decided to listen again when a passing review compared some of the songwriting to Vespertine, my favorite of hers. Well, Fossora’s not *quite* reaching those heights but it’s a beauty.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 7 October 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
I know I've said it probably 100 times, but Biophilia really really grew on me to the point I think it's her best post-Vespertine LP.
― Eric H., Friday, 7 October 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Yeah this might be my favorite thing of hers since Medulla. I strongly dislike what she did with Arca. Don’t like how their styles blend at all - although they have been the most interesting eras she’s had for fashion and visuals.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 7 October 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
― Eric H., Friday, October 7, 2022 bookmarkflaglink
Yes Biophelia was unfairly shat on at the time. Underrated.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 8 October 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
xp to moka, i have been a big fan of one of her more recent influences/designers, isshehungry: https://www.instagram.com/isshehungry/
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 October 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
Medúlla was the first Björk album I mostly didn't like. I'm OK with about half of it.I wrote this about the new one on my radio playlist last week:
I had a lot of trouble with the initial singles for Björk's new album Fossora. I've been a fan of hers since before Debut was even released, but there have always been aspects of her art that I find difficult: the melodies that can be exquisite but can also prod and prod until my head aches; the weird phrasing that deliberately accents the wrong parts of words and stretches melodies over single syllables; harmonies that reach for atonality in awkward ways (from a composer capable of glorious harmonisation); rhythms that, especially on this gabber-inspired release, hammer even at slower tempos without remorse. Even "Ancestress", the song on the album most directly about her late mother, which many have been powerfully moved by, I find quite painful listening, its verse melody strained by repetition and portentous pauses, and the the chorus, even as it recalls the beautiful "Unison" from her masterpiece Vespertine, still exhibiting so many of those foibles (the incredibly awkward scansion!). Perhaps it's because it's very operatic, and (I'm sorry) I hate opera.In any case, it's still Björk and there is still beauty and genius here. The bizarre fungal references are all over "Mycelia", a lovely vocal vignette with increasingly glitched voice samples, and there, at the end, is the sublime "Her Mother's House", once again referencing Björk's late mother Hildur while featuring her daughter Ísadóra (Dóa). Here the wind ensemble provides a bed instead of parping like a school band, and around Björk's own vocal lines Dóa and an oboe weave glittering scale patterns. Anyway, this is one guy's musical opinions and it's all aesthetics, so don't be offended if you love it all. You're absolutely right, even if I'm not wrong. And Björk is a treasure, forevermore.
― raven, Sunday, 9 October 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
I sequenced up the mix of more minimalist/understated tracks referenced above as a YouTube playlist, since I can't upload the mixed version I made to Mixcloud. Should still work reasonably well:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fd6SmjXXEAIEeCp?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fd6Snk3WIAE7vPF?format=jpg&name=large
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpQFmsMN6PqvJ6jEGv8jGEa_YRHtgRNr9
Still giving 'Fossora' time. Certainly more immediately accessible to me than 'Utopia,' at least.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 9 October 2022 05:20 (one year ago) link
Forks: yeah! Hungry’s work is brilliant.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 9 October 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
wow album just gets better every time i go back to it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
lol she's announced her first australia tour dates since the volta tour (but only playing perth) but she's not even touring the new album, she's bringing her cornucopia show from 2019? completely baffling
makes me feel better about not wanting to travel to see it because i have no interest in hearing her perform mostly just her worst album
― ufo, Friday, 21 October 2022 05:14 (one year ago) link
^ did not realise until this post that I've seen every* headline show she has ever played in Sydney, so imo she should keep the streak going
*both
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 21 October 2022 09:11 (one year ago) link
Lots of Bjork listening lately.
Mouth's Cradle is such a jam.
― V/R\V/R\V/R (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 22 October 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
I think the Australia and Japan Cornucopia shows might be pre-COVID contractual obligations? Anyway, she said in a recent interview she would update the setlist and include stuff from Fossora, too (though I wouldn't count on anything more than "Allow").
Since 2015 her tours have been kind of overlapping anyway, I remember she was still playing Vulnicura shows when "The Gate" and "Blissing Me" were already out, and she's also obviously doing the Orkestral gigs (which don't feature material from Utopia or Fossora) here and there, as well as DJing.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Sunday, 23 October 2022 08:42 (one year ago) link
the orkestral gigs are at least their own thing (that i'd be much sadder to miss)
& yeah good point that they're probably pre-covid arrangements that got delayed (since both western australia and japan were opened borders later than most). she almost certainly doesn't have a new show ready for fossora yet either (at least she's updating it) but it's just odd overall
utopia wasn't that long after vulnicura, relatively, so a few vulnicura shows happening while she was gearing up to release utopia wasn't that weird in comparison.
― ufo, Sunday, 23 October 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
New album slowly inching it’s way to being one of my favorites of this year. Possibly her most moving album for me.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
I finally was in the right headspace to listen to Fossora for the first time, and I'm much more in than I expected. Not a lot of pop hooks, but no one's expecting that from Bjork at this point, and I love the textures on the more calm tracks (Mycelia, Allow, and Her Mother's House for sure). 'Atopos' is probably my least favorite track, which is exactly what I was hoping for.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
Btw I made my own Soundslike-like 'Quiet Bjork' playlist if anyone wants -https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4kGcjsqUePEJ80w6hDK4uP?si=5813e34b33de4fa3
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
I cannot get over how starkly beautiful "Her Mother's House" is. Just a stunning arrangement -- how she interweaves the two vocal parts with the cor anglais, eventually uniting at the ~3:55 mark. Her discography has some gorgeous closers ("Unison," "All is Full of Love," "The Anchor Song," "Headphones") but this may be my favorite.
― Indexed, Thursday, 5 January 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
Bringing an acoustic/orchestral set to a huge open-air festival field filled with people waiting for Frank Ocean is gutsy but I'd say she pulled it off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whtd1wGfUoQ
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 28 April 2023 14:53 (eleven months ago) link
Wow, was the whole set sans beats/drums?
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 28 April 2023 14:56 (eleven months ago) link
Yes, just a string orchestra
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 28 April 2023 15:12 (eleven months ago) link
Bold move indeed!
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 28 April 2023 15:14 (eleven months ago) link
i love her so much
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Friday, 28 April 2023 15:44 (eleven months ago) link
Daring! The strings-only version of "Pluto" is great
Noted that the conductor is free of headphones, this was all live live no click no tricks. Impressive. I find my ears and heart wanting to hear "a full orchestra" in this context but wonder if the rigidity of it being strings-only is what makes it so powerful
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 28 April 2023 15:45 (eleven months ago) link
That is wonderful - thanks for posting
― Indexed, Friday, 28 April 2023 16:00 (eleven months ago) link
Supposedly Frank actually requested Bjork to be on the bill (and "open" for him)
― DT, Sunday, 30 April 2023 08:56 (ten months ago) link
would pay stupid money for a bjönk oceansdottir concert
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Sunday, 30 April 2023 14:11 (ten months ago) link
There’s a million Björk threads
is this what you call sharing ? pic.twitter.com/A2ewPgmiK4— björk (@bjork) November 3, 2023
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 3 November 2023 21:29 (four months ago) link
lol @ the Israel War Room quote-tweeting her, what a bunch of freaks
― Murgatroid, Friday, 3 November 2023 21:56 (four months ago) link
ngl I like this more than her past few albums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jsi2Tgvx6A
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 14:18 (four months ago) link
(probably bc the song was apparently written 25 years ago?)
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 14:19 (four months ago) link
yeah this is the best thing she's done in forever
― ufo, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 14:38 (four months ago) link
apparently it was 'too poppy' for vespertine and then she just forgot what it was called so she couldn't find the demo in her archives until she remembered this year
it's so odd to hear rosalia on this, someone else singing such an unmistakably bjork melody alongside her. not at all bad though!
― ufo, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 14:44 (four months ago) link
Forever, or since Vulnicura maybe is good enough
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 14:44 (four months ago) link
But at this point, yes, I'll take a good dose of Bjork revisiting some vault items from circa late '90s/early '00s
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 14:45 (four months ago) link
"stonemilker" is the only real exception there. or "who is it" too if i were to more specifically say 'since vespertine'
― ufo, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 14:47 (four months ago) link
oh wow her vocal is from the original pre-vespertine recording too. it sounds like the main thing that was newly recorded is the drums? (and rosalia's vocal of course)
― ufo, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:02 (four months ago) link
love this so much. video is great too wow
― gman59, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:54 (four months ago) link
Flutes and violin arrangements are probably new too - at least they sound more like Vulnicura/Utopia influenced arrangements than Homogenic.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 16:59 (four months ago) link
Love this and the video
― Roz, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:06 (four months ago) link
I’m a massive fan of Björk’s last three albums (and after finally seeing her live Cornucopia show last week I’m even more in love with her latter-day output than I thought I could be) but it’s so cool to hear this unearthed recording of her younger voice and more poppy/accessible style. I find it so nostalgic, brings me back to my teenage years.
Also weird to hear Rosalía sing in English lol! But I love it.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:23 (four months ago) link
She also sings in english in single “LLYLM” released earlier this year.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:55 (four months ago) link
Feel nostalgic and slightly sad hearing this great song, like a glimpse of a potential Bjork that pushed on in the direction of Vespertine. I do really like and admire some of the places she's gone over the years but never loved them like I loved Homogenic and Vespertine
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:35 (four months ago) link