Björk has shared the lead single and accompanying music video from her forthcoming album, Fossora. Directed by Viðar Logi, the “atopos” video takes place in a subterranean fungal jungle, where Björk, a psychedelic bass clarinet sextet, and Gabber Modus Operandi’s DJ Kasimyn take part in a (literal) underground rave.
Björk wrote on Twitter yesterday (September 5) that the track is “kinda like Fossora’s passport”. The Icelandic musician’s tenth full-length album is slated as a gabber album and is partly inspired by the pandemic and lockdown raves. The album name is a made-up term that’s meant as the feminine of “fossore,” which means “digger, delver, ditcher”, according to a press release.
Fossora is the follow-up to 2017’s Utopia. Björk recently launched a podcast called Björk: Sonic Symbolism, which takes listeners on a journey from Debut, through Post, Homogenic, Vespertine, Medúlla, Volta, Biophilia, and Vulnicura, all the way up to 2017’s Utopia.
Watch the music video for “atopos” above.