Björk - Fossora
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Welcome to a fantastic album.
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Finished the album earlier and it really is her best in years. I appreciate the weight of Vulnicura but it didn't fully connect with me apart from Stonemilker and Black Lake, so as an album this feels like her best and most consistent since Medulla-there's only 3 songs on here that I haven't clicked with yet, and 2 of them were interludes! The production is through the roof, she sounds like she's having a blast, the features feel essential, it's an excellent album overall.
Highlights for me are Allow and Fungal City, but most of all Her Mother's House-potentially one of her best ever?
Highlights for me are Allow and Fungal City, but most of all Her Mother's House-potentially one of her best ever?
Forget everything you've read about gabber, clarinets, mushrooms, "finally having fun!!!" or whatever marketing tidbit\personal projection your mind is favoring because the fungal character of Fossora lies in its spreading in many different directions, moods, sounds, themes, speeds... Travelling through the forest underground indeed, popping up here and there.
I just can’t believe how smoothly this campaign has gone so far. Just a few weeks ago we had the album announcement. In that time, we’ve gotten three videos, four pre-release tracks, loads of interviews and features and no album leak. Yes, mjöther!
Can't believe I'm diving in.
There are quite a few contenders for me.
When she recently said concepts are gonna be used more loosely now if at all, I felt if she would be honest, she already did that. It is sonically all over the place and there is a cute little mushroom EP in Fossora but there also is a My Mom And Life EP in it and more.
It still feels like an album in its current form. I am beyond thrilled she did something this amazing yet again. I hope many lost fans will find some peace in this album because I feel it is the purest Björk DNA we got in ages.
This is album of the year material.
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For once I'm holding off until it'll be out in my neck of the woods and I can have the time to fully absorb it, but these reviews have me so excited
Not Trölla-Gabba being an instant highlight for me. Spooky BANGER.
@theincredibleflipper your description of Freefall was spot-on. It's such a Björclassical stunner, but I kinda wish it kept going at the end!
@theincredibleflipper your description of Freefall was spot-on. It's such a Björclassical stunner, but I kinda wish it kept going at the end!
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I still feel a bit silly about what I said about Allow but I still feel it is a Björk banger and my hips shake when it comes on.
Victimhood also being that slowly creeping into your brain masterpiece.
Her Mother's House? More like Her Daughter's Serve!!
Isadóra sounds great, I'm gutted all the vinyl won't have her kids' features. Might be worth waiting for a repress, to be honest.
Isadóra sounds great, I'm gutted all the vinyl won't have her kids' features. Might be worth waiting for a repress, to be honest.
Looking back at the first pages of this thread and the "dance party at the last minute" description only applying to like 3 songs of the 13 is so funny.
They’re not on there?
According to Discogs users the vinyl still has the GMO vocalist and doesn't have Sindri and Isadóra.
That's what happens when the first four years of life are spent inside the studio where Medúlla was being recorded/produced.