Bjork New Album Fossora with Single “ATOPOS”

Sep 19, 2022 musiccorners

Bjork New Album – BJÖRK announced a new single titled Atopos on August 24, 2022. In addition to announcing the new single, Björk also posted his official artwork ahead of the release of his 10th album, Fossora, which will be released on September 30, 2022.

The Icelandic musician shared the news about the recording of the album as a follow-up to the 2017 album Utopia. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Björk said that the new album will be released this fall through One Little Independent Records, although the exact date is unknown.

In the above-mentioned article, Fossora’s album cover is described as an image of the singer depicting “a shining forest fairy, her fingertips fused with fantastic mushrooms under her nails”.

Bjork New Album also revealed the artwork on his social media accounts on August 24, 2022. For the cover of his new album released after a five-year hiatus, Björk looks crouched above the vibrant mushroom world. The album cover was done by Vidar Logi, with Björk and James Merry as creative directors.

In the photo caption, Björk wrote, “I’m very happy to announce to you my new album Fossora.” Björk went on to leak that the first single from his next full-length project, titled Atopos, is coming soon.

Behind it, two songs from the recording of Björk’s new album, Sorrowful Soil, and Ancestress, are said to have been made in homage to the singer’s mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir. His mother died in 2018 at the age of 72.

“I think my brother and I weren’t ready for… we thought he had 10 years left. So we were like: ‘Come on,’ and got him fighting and… and it was like he had an inner clock inside him. and he’s ready to go,” Björk told The Guardian.

Bjork New Album, Fossora, will feature the Icelandic singer’s collaboration with Serpentwithfeet and the Indonesian punk unit Gabber Modus Operandi. Including contributions from his son Sindri and daughter Doa.

In October 2021, Björk said the new album was being made “for people who make clubs at home in their living rooms” during the COVID-enforced lockdown. He described his voice as “a guy headbanging, then sits down again and drinks another glass of red wine, and everyone comes home at 10, done with dancing and all.”

In the caption, Björk wrote, “7 billion of us do it together/nested in our homes, quarantined/long enough in one place that we shoot to the roots.” As for the title, he said, “That’s a word I made up. it is the feminine of fossore (digger, digger, ditch). so in short it means ‘he who digs’ (into the ground).”

Sonically, Bjork New Album, Fossora is all about bass, heavy bottom-end, which has six bass clarinets and a punchy sub. He also spoke in previous interviews about the influence of Gabber Modus Operandi on this LP. The björk also revealed that his new tracks are mostly between 80-90 beats per minute because that’s the speed he goes.

In addition to the new album, the Icelandic artist is preparing to launch a podcast called Björk: Sonic Symbolism. The first three episodes, documenting the albums Debut, Post, and Homogenic, were released on September 1, 2022.

Regarding his podcast entitled Björk: Sonic Symbolism, Björk will explain the discography. Some of the guests invited to talk about his first three albums included philosopher and writer Oddný Eir and musicologist Smundur Jónsson. The show was produced in collaboration between Talkhouse and Mailchimp.

“Most of us go through phases in our lives that take about three years, and it’s no coincidence that it often takes a long time to make an album, book, or film,” says Björk in the trailer.

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“In conversations on this podcast, my friends and I try to capture which mood, tone, and tempo vibrates during each of my 10 albums,” he continues.

Besides, in his statement in the press release, he said, “When I was asked about the difference in music on my album, I found it the fastest to use visual shortcuts. That’s why my album covers are almost like homemade tarot cards. The image ahead may seem like a visual moment, but to me, it just describes the sound.”

“I try to express it with the color palette, the texture of the textile, with what I’m holding, my posture, and the angle that shows its relationship to the world. Also, the emotion of the mouth tries to share the overall atmosphere of the Bjork New Album.”

“Perhaps you can call it some kind of sonic symbolism? Most of us go through phases in our lives that take roughly three years, and it’s no coincidence this is also how long it takes to make an album or film. This podcast is an experiment to capture which mood, timbre, and tempo vibrates during each of these phases,” explains the 56-year-old singer.