When one considers the concept of a utopia, it is often discussed as the peak or perfection of a society. In Björk’s “Utopia,” the artist utilizes this concept to portray a musing of how humans can ...

Nailah Hunter is reflecting on “Paradisia,” a brief flute fantasia from Bjork’s 2017 album, Utopia, when she stumbles upon a lovely description. “Talk about music to walk in the forest to,” says the L ...

Björk has already been to hell. Her 2015 album, Vulnicura, was a raw portrait of grief, written and recorded in the months after she and her longtime partner and collaborator Matthew Barney announced ...

On the opening track of her wild new album Utopia, Björk sings as if she is Hydra-headed. The Icelandic artist layers up her expressive vocals on “Arisen My Senses,” entangling lyrical takes as harps ...

The post Björk announces new Utopia box set featuring 14 handmade flutes appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The bird-calling flutes were made in collaboration with French company Quelle est Belle ...

Eerie and ethereal, Björk’s “Utopia” feels like the musical equivalent of the Driftless Area, that corner of the Midwest the glaciers never touched, leaving its landscape surprisingly different from ...

Emily Mackay, the author of “Björk’s Homogenic (33 1/3),” details how Björk’s past albums led to the birth of “Utopia.” Next month, Björk will release her ninth record, “Utopia,” the love-lit flipside ...

At one point during “Body Memory,” the sprawling main attraction of Björk’s tenth album Utopia, the Icelandic singer-songwriter seems to illustrate a central theme of the album, while at the same time ...

For Björk, and for her listeners, Utopia is not easily reached. On her new album by that optimistic title, the adventurous Icelandic singer envisions a realm of romantic promise and civic cooperation ...

Over the course of her career, Björk has sung about matters as complex as nature, technology and sexuality, but when we last heard her, she was plumbing the depths of another concept as universal as ...

Björk's last album, Vulnicura, felt heavy. A chronicle of her separation from longtime partner Matthew Barney, its sounds had a suffocating menace, like when your breath is sucked from your lungs as ...