bjonk

Album Rating: 3.5

thinking Crystallized is better than anything on Fossora lmao

wait why every Bjork album title for the past 20 years end with an A

Album Rating: 2.5

crystallized is easily better than anything on fossora. fossora material sounds rly by-the-numbers by comparison

Album Rating: 3.5

explain how. in musical terms

Album Rating: 3.5

like Crystalline literally has one of the most by the numbers melodies of her whole career

Album Rating: 3.5

Fossora is packed with different sounds and rhythms, Crystalline can be played almost entirely on a xylophone

Album Rating: 3.5

I won't object to people saying they think Biophilia's singles are better cause that's subjective but to say the new songs are by-the-numbers compared to Crystalline is patently false

Crystalline is mid-tier in the context of BIOPHILIA, who cares if it is/was a 'single', that doesn't mean much nowadays anyway. Thunderbolt is far and away the album's best track, followed by Sacrifice, Mutual Core, and Moon.

Album Rating: 3.5

curious what you think about the new one

Only heard Ovule but kind of got the sense she was going for a Blackstar kind of mood with the jazz section. Didn't get any sense of it being by the numbers, maybe a 5 or 6 on the Bjork strangeness scale.

Album Rating: 3.5

and that's the most by the numbers song out of the 4



the critique of Ancestress not being simple enough feels strange to me, feels like it works with fairly simple melodies and arrangements, and has them kinda unfurl slowly to facilitate the (very good) lyrics and narrative

'says he at the bottom of a solid two-three pages of singles discussion and consequent new album speculation'

singles are rarely representative of the album as a whole; it has always been that way to a large degree, but since the advent of the streaming era, albums will often trickle out as many as five or six "singles" prior to the album's full release. my point is was that it's unfair and totally arbitrary to bother concluding that FOSSORA will/won't be better than any previous Bjork album based upon said album's singles.

'curious what you think about the new one'

Ovule > Atopos > Ancestress > Fossora

Album Rating: 3.5

sorry you don't understand gabber must suck

Album Rating: 3.5

"the critique of Ancestress not being simple enough feels strange to me, feels like it works with fairly simple melodies and arrangements, and has them kinda unfurl slowly to facilitate the (very good) lyrics and narrative"



maybe 'not simple enough' is not what they mean exactly, idk. at least i know, for me, on first listens, it's too meandering and there's not much i can hold on to. it's like it's just hobbling in circles, just staying in place. it's not bad, but i find it inaccessible

I'm definitely on board for this one - all four songs so far have been compelling, with moments of intense beauty and others of pure adrenaline.
Crystalline is magnificent and Biophilia underrated, but the new stuff has made me more excited for a new Björk album than any time since Vespertine.
Much prefer the earthy sounds to the flutes of Utopia too...

People on RYM trying to label Atopos as “avant-garde jazz” have definitely licked a window or two in their lives

Album Rating: 3.5

how come? genuine question, genres are hard

I mean…there’s nothing remotely jazz-influenced about it, at least not to my ears. I can even buy the ‘reggaeton’ label over avant-garde jazz (tho that’s highly questionable too). Problem is people hear a woodwind and automatically think it must be some form of jazz. But there’s way more to jazz than “uses clarinets or saxophones” or whatever.

If you ask someone for a jazz recommendation and they show you Atopos, i think you are allowed to place them under citizens arrest.

Album Rating: 2.5

Colton it's rly simple: crystalline is pretty and fun and experimental in the good kind of way, and really catchy etc, and the new material sounds boring as fuck and artsy for the sake of being artsy. It's more wood wind bs and strings on par with vulnicura which is an incredibly tedious album to listen to and utterly pales in comparison to the emotional heights of older songs like joga. You tryna break down the musical complexity as if that's a legitimate argument for quality is fking lol