After a painful separation from ex Matthew Barney and her youngest child’s departure from home, she’s left putting back down roots again on her own. The void they break with soil is the empty nest that Bjork is now dealing with. I love how lush the choir of voices sound in the void. “ Sorrowful Soil” is a purely acapella song. It feels like fireflies and glowing mushrooms bouncing about. I love the arpeggiated raises and falls that come and go. The voices glitch and bubble like a mythical forest of bugs and fungal lifeforms. One of three short tracks on the record, “ Mycelia” is a purely instrumental song. The official music video to “ Ovule” directed by Nick Knight. Whatever way you look at it, it’s Bjork’s desperate way to get the fibers of fungi to connect us again and dance our asses off. You can read the lyrics, “ Are these not just excuses to not connect?/ Our differences are irrelevant/ To insist on absolute justice at all times/ It blocks connection”, either as the divisiveness of COVID or even a subtle hint at the extremities of cancel culture being our necrotic roots. The title comes from the Greek word for strange/out of place and that perfectly personifies the feeling of the quarantine in a nutshell. These songs were meant to include the entirety of the Indonesian electronic duo Gabber Modus Operandi, but was narrowed down to Kasimyn after allegations of sexual abuse arisen around Ican Harem. This song, and several others on the album, features Kasimyn. It’s a chaotic mix of dissonant bass clarinets, pseudo-reggaeton beats, and a sick breakdown fit for rave at the end of the track. I always see the opening track to a Bjork project as a thesis statement and this one doesn’t disappoint. “ Atopos” is a masterful opener to the project. The last sentence a foreshadowing of the inclusion of Gabber Modus Operandi to provide the pulse to this project.Īrtwork for the first single off of Fossora, “ Atopos”. Slow energy, but then it goes double… a little bit gabber.” “ There’s always a BPM in our bodies, you know? And I think through Covid we were all pretty lazy, just sitting home reading books, so when we got drunk or partied it was like we went a little bit mental, then we just fell asleep before midnight. In discussing some of the inspiration behind Fossora, Bjork told The Guardian: The mycelia of the this project’s sound is as large as a mushroom colony with it’s own variety of fruiting bodies to take joy in. There is plenty to feast upon from various textures to the many featured artists that pop up (including both of Bjork’s adult children). It’s easy to draw comparisons to prior projects with Fossora: acapella tones from Medulla, horns from Volta, and scientific notes from Biophilia. This project is a bit more freeform around its concept, something that greatly works in its favor. An influence on the sound for this project came from the quarantine that Covid- 19 created in 20. Coming out of the healing and otherworldly realms of Utopia, we move back from this floating abyss to the earth’s surface.
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