Björk reveals Fossora release date, shares cover art
The album will be the Icelandic artist’s first in five years.
Björk has shared details of her forthcoming album, Fossorra, which will be her first in five years. The record will arrive on September 30, and you can see the cover art above. The photo was taken by Vidar Logi with creative direction from Björk and James T. Merry.
Björk shared a new statement on the album along with the details of its release. “Each album always starts with a feeling that i try to shape into sound,” she wrote, “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 ground.”
She continued, discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown inspired Fossorra:
it 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 roots
my 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 )
"Sonically," Björk writes, "[Fossora] is about bass , heavy bottom-end, we have 6 bass clarinets and punchy sub."
Tomorrow, Björk's new podcast Björk: Sonic Symbolism will premiere. The nine-episode series will cover all of Björk's solo albums leading up to Fossora. Debut, Post, and Homogenic will be the subjects of the first three episode drop.