Björk shared details of her upcoming new studio album, Fossora. The Icelandic singer-songwriter posted the album’s cover art and confirmed its September 30 release date.
Björk’s last album was 2017’s Utopia, which she called “all island in the clouds element air and no bass.” Regarding the sound of Fossora, she wrote, “sonically it is about bass, heavy bottom-end, we have six bass clarinets and punchy sub.”
The 13-track Fossora features contributions from Serpentwithfeet, Indonesian dance duo Gabber Modus Operandi, and Björk’s children Sindri and Ísadóra, among others. Two of the songs, “Ancestress” and “Sorrowful Soil,” were inspired by the 2018 death of Björk’s mother Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir. Other inspiration came from the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing near-global lockdown. The lead single, “Atopos,” was previously confirmed but a release date was not set.
Read more about Fossora via The Guardian. View the Fossora cover art (designed and created by Björk, James Merry and Vidar Logi), Björk’s note (with her stylization), and the album’s tracklist below:
that i try to shape into sound
this time around
the feeling was landing
(after my last album utopia which was all island in the clouds element air and no bass)
on the earth and digging my feet into the groundit was also woven into how i experienced the “now”
this time around 7 billion of us did it together
nesting in our homes quarantining
being long enough in one place that we shot down rootsmy new album “fossora” is about that
it is a word i made up
it is the feminine of fossore (digger, delver, ditcher)
so in short it means “she who digs” (into the ground)so sonically it is about bass, heavy bottom-end,
we have 6 bass clarinets and punchy subi would like to especially thank bergur þórisson and heba kadry
side project, el guincho, hamrahlíð choir, soraya nayyar, clarinet sextet murmuri, siggi string quartet ensemble, emilie nicolas, serpentwithfeet
viibra and last but not least: sindri and dóa.visuals were made by viðar logi, james merry, m/m, nick knight, andy huang, edda, isshehungry, tomi, sayaka, sunna, sara and heimir
and my ever so loyal and magnificent team: derek, rosamary, catherine, chiara, hilma and móa
Fossora Tracklist
- Atopos
- Ovule
- Mycelia
- Sorrowful Soil
- Ancestress
- Fagurt Er í Fjörðum
- Victimhood
- Allow
- Fungal City
- Trölla-Gabba
- Freefall
- Fossora
- Her Mother’s House
