New studio album! With fourteen tracks in total, Utopia clocks in at 71 minutes and 38 seconds, making it the longest of Bj?rk's studio albums to date. Unlike their collaboration on Vulnicura, where Arca came on board after all the songs and string arrangements were written, the new album saw them collaborating from the start, a process Bj?rk admits was new to her. Arca had encouraged her to pursue a direction she'd hinted at on obscure cuts like "Batabid", a b-side from the 2002 "Pagan Poetry" single, and "Ambergris March" from Drawing Restraint 9. "It grew very naturally", says Bj?rk. "A musical conversation that was cross-generational, cross-Atlantic, him encouraging me to go into this area that I sort of suggested years ago, but didn't necessarily go all the way. Air was a conscious, stylistic choice for the album after frequently composing for strings arrangements in her previous work: "The whole album is a little bit about air... I started a 12 piece Icelandic flute section and spent a few months recording and rehearsing with them, so kind of taking the flute, the instrument I learned as a kid, and kind of putting that into everything... We decided to have synths that have a lot of air sounds in them and flutes that sound synthy, so it's that crossover there." Bj?rk told Dazed that her new album is an exploration of utopia, with its writing process coinciding with her own personal, political and environmental concerns. "I like really open situations – being on the dance floor at three in the morning, losing myself, but also going to my cabin by the lake the next day and playing the flute. That, for me, is also utopia. "Bj?rk contrasted the new album to Vulnicura, saying that while her previous record was a heartbreak album, Utopia is a "Tinder album".
Треклист (Tracklist):
♫ ♪ 1. Arisen My Senses ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 2. Blissing Me ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 3. The Gate ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 4. Utopia ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 5. Body Memory ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 6. Features Creatures ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 7. Courtship ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 8. Losss ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 9. Sue Me ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 10. Tabula Rasa ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 11. Claimstaker ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 12. Paradisia ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 13. Saint ♫ ♪
♫ ♪ 14. Future Forever ♫ ♪
