Cruel Summer Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 39 minutes ago, Raptus said: If Fossora and Vulnicura had came out on the same day no one would dare to say Fossora is the better album. People say that because they overplayed Vulnicura and Fossora is new and fresh. Stonemilker, Black lake, Notget>>>>>>Fossora (album) I have yet to hear the full album, but I just have to chime in here - I prefer Ancestress, even after repeated plays, to anything on Vulnicura, even Stonemilker. I’m not going to be surprised if I end up preferring Fossora as a whole to Vulnicura. And this is a good thing - even if not everyone agrees, it’s beautiful that she can be ten albums deep and over thirty years into her career and still putting out material that some people think is on par with her best records. It’s especially true with this discography - arguably the best in the overarching pop space, in my opinion. Vulnicura, whether better or worse than Fossora, was something I thought would be a one-off as I’ve gotten deeper into her work in the past month, in that I thought it would be the last hurrah of the “old Björk” and her other post-Medúlla work wouldn’t quite live up to her 1995-2004 stretch. Everything I’ve heard from Fossora suggests that I was, to my delight, deeply wrong in that assumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam9814 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 okay her mothers house is now my favorite biörk song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfly Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I löök up at the trrree töps I will brrraid thöse twigs tögetherrr Crrreate a cathedrrral ceiling aböve me Höw I löng tö flöat in the mid airrr Between the brrranches Amöngst impössible magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polgg48 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 (edited) *skipped singles for full experience, on my timezone streaming...* on 'Victimhood' atm, so far 'Ancestress' is level above everything else and best single by far. lovely production as always, back to listening... EDIT: top 3 first run for me: ancestress, freefall, and her mother's house, i like this more than medulla but not more than vulnicura. would i come back more? 'fungal city' is trashy bop i needed so yes... Edited September 29, 2022 by Polgg48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HausOfGerard Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Björk is so talented that everyone has different favorites, get a grip Even the albums at the bottom of my personal album rankings I still very much respect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossora Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 capacityyyyyy forrrr loveeeeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruel Summer Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, HausOfGerard said: Björk is so talented that everyone has different favorites, get a grip Even the albums at the bottom of my personal album rankings I still very much respect Agreed - I don’t really use Volta, Biophilia, or Utopia, personally, and still recognize their quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shookspeare Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 fOOOoOooOosora Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossora Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 homogenic, vespertine, medulla and vulnicura are untouchable at this point...like they are all classics in my book, so comparing fossora to them is a bit too early but yeah I think we can all agree that this turned out way better than we all expected and proved that Björk is still an insane musical genius and knows how to make things fresh and ahead of their time, as she's pushing 60 and I'm insanely proud and happy for listening to this record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haze Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Mycelia is like crack to my ears, but Medulla is also one of my favourite albums. Sorrowful Soil is absolutely gorgeous. Also sounds like a top tier Medulla track. Björk & choirs always do it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shookspeare Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 yeah maybe trölla-grammy really did end Frosti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfly Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 (edited) my careful, early ranking atopos > ancestress > sorrowful soil > allah > ovule > mycelia > fossora > victimhood > freefall > fungal city > mother goose > trolla fa-gga > fagurT Edited September 29, 2022 by Dragonfly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HausOfGerard Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 36 minutes ago, Cruel Summer said: Agreed - I don’t really use Volta, Biophilia, or Utopia, personally, and still recognize their quality. Me, but with Debut, Volta, and Utopia. Biophilia is really good to me, and was one of, if not the first, Bjork album I've ever listened to (genuinely cannot remember if I listened to Bio or Homogenic first) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndresVanDeKamp Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Did my first listen this morning at work and it clicked so immediately for me. I’ve loved all of the singles so I was expecting it to connect and she actually surprised me! I’ve been a stan since Biophilia and for whatever reason Vulnicura and Utopia did not hit as hard as I would have hoped. Like others have said, I was kind of content with the idea that we’d never hear something from her as interesting as the Medúlla and before albums but I think I this is a step in the right direction! Sure, we still get a lot of the monotonous melodies that appeared on all her albums since Biophilia, but here they are complimented by the return of beats that have been missing for a while (for me at least). Obviously need more time to digest it but I’m very happy that she’s consistently and constantly trying new things and it’s true that no two albums are the same. She really does know how to leave the sounds of the previous album in the past and just explore and entirely new soundscape. Slay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovedaddy Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 title track is still that b**** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Price of Fame Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I do wish there was one more track that went full gabber rave at the end like atopos and the title track but that’s a pretty minor complaint and pretty only one because Bjork h hyped this the album up as such! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haze Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I've listened to it once and I can already tell this will be one of my favourite albums by her -- possibly my absolute favourite, which feels crazy to say. Everything just clicks IMO (except the weird cut on fagurt). There's a haunting beauty to these tracks, perfectly encapsulated by Her Mother's House, which gave me chills. I'm a Utopia apologist but that album felt like it got somewhere stuck in between Arca's world and Björk's never fully belonging to either one. It houses some of my favourite songs, but also felt uncharacteristically messy sometimes. Fossora is the most assured she's sounded since Medulla I think, a creative genius at the top of her game, constructing soundscapes out of this world. I know no music that sounds like this, yet it also feels very lived and humane, very of the flesh if that somehow makes sense. Fungal City, Ancestress and Her Mother's House is my temporary trinity, but i can't wait for each song to unfold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket0212 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I love that this album rewards you for listening to it in full. It's always changing (even within 1 song) and you're waiting for the next switch. The fact that 2nd half of album is kinda stronger helps this album too. Maybe Utopia would work too with different tracklist (cause after Losss it's going nowhere). I love that title track is the centre piece and culmination of the whole album. Tracklist is really perfect here. The only meh moment in my opinion is Mycelia + Sorrowful Soil but it comes right after strong singles and followed by the third one so it still works. Love this album so much. I'm always ready to drag my faves but Fossora sounds like a 95 or even 100 to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K$Ellie Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 really great album, her best in a long time but not on the same level as her first 4 my only complaint would be that she didn't have 1 or 2 more gabber songs saved for the album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Ugh I just read the previous few pages and the reviews here are tempting me to listen to this album BUT I've never listened to a full body of work from Björk before Do you guys think Fossora would be a good start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Slayne Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Debut is lowkey her worst, maybe in competition with Volta... everything else in her discography is 10/10, with Vespertine and Vulnicura being 11/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Slayne Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 wait, just realised that from Medulla onwards all of her albums end with A MedullA VoltA BiophiliA VulnicurA UtopiA FossorA B11: ------A? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulnicura Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 5 minutes ago, Bingo said: Ugh I just read the previous few pages and the reviews here are tempting me to listen to this album BUT I've never listened to a full body of work from Björk before Do you guys think Fossora would be a good start? As a start, probably not! Debut and Post are her most pop-leaning, accessible albums in her discography. If you enjoy those, then continue onwards chronologically in her discography - it only gets more interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceOddity Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Me to the early reviewers hating Victimhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, Vulnicura said: As a start, probably not! Debut and Post are her most pop-leaning, accessible albums in her discography. If you enjoy those, then continue onwards chronologically in her discography - it only gets more interesting! Alright, I'll start with them. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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