Let’s discuss all news about her upcoming 11th album, which is not going to be called Echolalia.
do si do’ing to Cvalda
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Wasn’t she pictured with a harp the other year? Wasn’t it intentional?
Close the thread.
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Don’t be such an ungrateful grapefruit.
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In the Vogue Scandinavia photoshoot?
Wait though a harp album? I’d love that. How very Joanna Newsom
Grand opening of echolalia tomorrow, and the National Gallery of Iceland has unveiled through Instagram story the title and first visual of the new song. The song is “Nerve Bloom” and the next Björk looks like this:
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yasss my ganglia queen
serving Krang
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Remember Homogenic? This is her now!
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I’ve heard some snippets and Nerve Bloom sounds LUSCIOUS
I don’t know how to embed a tweet
https://x.com/homotextualidad/status/2060802344443380064?s=20
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Longer snippets here!
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This just popped up on my Instagram. I’m quite liking it so far. I’m fine bits of it a little noisy, I don’t know if it’s deliberate or the way the clip has been recorded, the song feels like it’s fighting with itself in places
Yeah I definitely got “Bachelorette” single artwork from those new visuals.
And apparently these snippets of “Nerve Bloom” are its early/demo version, the finalized one should appear on the upcoming album.
Not a demo or an early version: it’s a finished song, fully produced, mixed and mastered, just a different form of what will eventually be on the album.
The official credits for Echolalia have it as “Nerve Bloom (Remix)”, written\produced\arranged\programmed and synth sculpting by Björk, piano by David Þör Jónsson, beats by Mun Sing and engineered\mixed\mastered by the usual team of Bergur Þorisson, Marta Salogni and Heba Kadry; the visuals are by Natalia Kleszczweska and the animation by Natalie Liu—male presence kept to the bare minimum. The question now is which of these elements are specific to Echolalia and which are features of the sonic world that’s to come. Björk is notoriously piano-averse, so the final arrangement might be for another instrument, and the beats might disappear or change. It’d be a gag if the standard is actually the more stripped back version because what we’re hearing is already intricate and layered.
The album key word Sonic Symbolism thing was brought back for the exhibition and updated to include Fossora. The final association for Fossora is “neural blossoming”, which seems to suggest “Nerve Bloom” is a bridge song between albums, sort of like “The Gate” and “Allow”. It does sound like it could easily belong to the last cycle of music after all, at least in this iteration, so who knows what 2027 will bring. Begging for breadcrumbs of info, even stale or microscopic, from Echolalia’s press cycle.
A final thing to note: the neural imagery matches perfectly with the subcutaneous, anatomical theme of the masks Miss B has been wearing in the last couple of years: fascia, modelled after the wavy designs of connective tissue, and blaschko, inspired by the invisible stripes skin cells form. The clock is ticking for an MD PhD board-certified dermatologist era.
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I’m loving the hairy horses in the recent visuals that have been rendered like a living oil painting! But I can’t help but see this avatar as if a Na’vi and ionnalee had a child skdkdkd
Figured a new song/remix being premiered might be enough to justify this thread reopening.
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Wonderful visuals. Sure by now we know what to expect from Bjork both visually and musically but it is still a treat to hear what she has to offer.
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