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Gyromania
October 4th 2022


37091 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

,🤣🤣🍄

Demon of the Fall
October 4th 2022


33876 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I'm about to say something positive, advance warning...



This is a lot more engaging than Utopia, despite the lows there is intrigue here and I care more for it already. I'm certainly not about to abandon it completely and at an absolute minimum would consider revisiting select cuts like Atopops (stuck in my head as I type this), Freefall & the t/t. 'Gabba' is a nice little curiosity, so that gets a pass.

Demon of the Fall
October 4th 2022


33876 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

yeah exactly, that's what has me reconsidering my position



hehe

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
October 4th 2022


10734 Comments


Kudos to Bjork for putting her entire back catalogue on Bandcamp.

Rawmeeth38
October 4th 2022


2688 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I love bork

Gyromania
October 4th 2022


37091 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Dewi: prob easier to just say "I haven't been to many exciting funerals lately either"

Tunaboy45
October 4th 2022


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Ancestress is unbelievably beautiful. The whole album is just fantastic. She always delivers.

Gyromania
October 4th 2022


37091 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

She delivered a wet fart this time

markjamie
October 4th 2022


714 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Ya'll nuts. If anything this is getting stronger - thinking of bumping to a 4.5. It's clearly her strongest since Vespertine and new layers reveal themselves each listen. I was done with Utopia at this point last cycle, but all I want to do right now is listen to Fossora.

And Melon not liking it is another huge point in its favour. The Spectrum-Pulse review gets it...

necropig
October 4th 2022


7409 Comments


not diss enough

Tunaboy45
October 4th 2022


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Were you filtered by the gabber or the bass clarinets, let us know in the comments!

brandontaylor
October 5th 2022


1228 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

the whole gabber thing turned out to be a bit of a distraction, while its a bit of fun nonsense i think the album would be more amazing without it. anyway its amazing and should have a much higher average than utopia imo

Tyler.
October 5th 2022


19021 Comments


first time i heard this i thought it was neat. second listen and i am NOT vibing

Asdfp277
October 5th 2022


24310 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

those are just excuses not to connect

KILL
October 5th 2022


81580 Comments


neg it bro

Gyromania
October 5th 2022


37091 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

I think the cosmological theming of Biophilia is so much more on point than this album's, even if it has its fair share of noticeable flaws. There's a dark and mysterious current flowing through Bio and on here I feel like she doesn't really push the envelope with the psychedelic angle. Mycelia and Gabba show promise of something more experimental and potentially magical but a lot of the straight up songs here just sound like Bjork doing Bjork, the same as it's been for a few albums now, but her voice is always so prominent in the mix and kind of grates after a while. Maybe grates isn't the right word, but the vocal performances seem lacking in distinct qualities that made her older albums so remarkable to me - like the voice breaks on Undo and all these cool idiosyncrasies she'd employ on tracks like Joga and Moon. I tend to like her more modern stuff when it's heavily filtered with vocoder effects and masked with ambience etc

Gyromania
October 5th 2022


37091 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

The latter half I find a bit annoying but it's definitely in the top half of the album for me.

markjamie
October 5th 2022


714 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Biophilia only approaches the greatness of Fossora if you go get a coffee at the start of Dark Matter and come back at the end of Hollow.

Anthracks
October 5th 2022


8029 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

picks up right where biophilia left off which is great... so glad the arca collab is over; her least interesting period by far

Tunaboy45
October 5th 2022


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Definitely parallels between this and Biophilia, not so much a companion but an exploration of different themes using that album's approach (minus the tesla coils and pendulums).



The breakdown on the second half of Fossora definitely harkens back to Mutual Core and Crystalline.



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