As a child growing up in Iceland, Bjork would compose music in her head as she walked to school. The cadence of her footsteps became the rhythm. The dramatic landscapes of her homeland became the ...

With the release of her 10th studio album, Fossora, Björk delivers a thought-provoking work that takes her to new heights of experimentation. Like her other albums, Fossora is a space for sonic ...

May 7th is not that far away! We, as in madwebcarpenters of bjork.com, have waited for a fair bit of time like everyone else biting our tongue and now is the time to release this bit of information ...

An avid fungophile, Björk has dubbed Fossora her “mushroom album” — earthly, organic, grounded, and reminiscent of the circle of life. The personnel behind Fossora also includes a sextet of bass ...

The 30th anniversary of Björk‘s first album, Debut, is next year, and she’s got a new album, Fossora, on the way before that, so it seems like a good time reexamine where she’s been and where she’s ...

If Radiohead sit on their throne as the collective kings of my test tracks playlist, it’s only right that Björk should be considered, albeit somewhat clunkily, their Icelandic queen. During my time as ...

Never one to follow the flock, Bjork has neglected to just put out a live album like most artists and instead she's opted to rerecord 11 tracks live in Olympic studios and please her loyal following ...

The album floats around the marriage of three musical elements: Björk’s specific throaty and moaning voice, a recurring string section and the impossibly cool additions of revered electronic artists ...

fossora, a word created by Björk, is the feminised version of the Latin word for "digger," and a reflection on roots, grounding, love, and family in the context of an underground mushroom world. The ...

Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1965, the daughter of an electrician and an activist. She was something of a child star in her home country, releasing her first album as simply ...