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9.0
131672
9.0 |
God Is In The TV
You will probably want to play this a number of times, firstly to get yourself into the headspace, and then to appreciate what a truly special album this is, even by its creator’s very high standards. Time well spent
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9.0
131675
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A celebration of family, friendship and beats that bang hard
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9.0
131689
9.0 |
All Music
On this soul-nourishing tour de force, her one-of-a-kind mix of innovation and emotion is as inspiring as it's ever been over her decades-long career.
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8.5
131730
8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
For her new album, Björk works her way down from the treetops, and into the wide, weird world of fungi
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8.4
131818
8.4 |
Beats Per Minute
Fossora is an incredible and vulnerable project that refuses any easy categorisation
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8.4
131676
8.4 |
Pitchfork
With her 10th album, Björk is grounded back on earth, searching for hope in death, mushrooms, and matriarchy, and finding it in bass clarinet and gabber beats
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8.1
131711
8.1 |
Northern Transmissions
Fossora really encapsulates Björk’s growth as a musician. It doesn’t aim to be a well-loved record, but her worlds so are so incredibly fascinating
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8.0
131718
8.0 |
The Observer
The pop auteur’s 10th album deals with the death of her mother and the dawn of new love by digging deep into Dutch techno, bass clarinets – and fungi
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8.0
131725
8.0 |
Clash
To hear someone so comfortable in their own creative process, binding the childhood inquisitiveness that’s never left them to the artistic confidence that they’ve developed over more than three decades, is a delight and a privilege
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8.0
131699
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Her latest is vast, challenging, and beautifully human
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8.0
131706
8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Some will need a tunneling machine to get to them, and some other will make do with a spoon, but there's treasure to be found in the heart of Fossora, and if willpower is not enough to help you find them, mushrooms will surely help
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8.0
131691
8.0 |
The FT
The Icelandic star is like a film auteur, having written, produced and arranged almost all its contents
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8.0
131693
8.0 |
musicOMH
Tenth album finds inspiration in nature and humanity, upholding her uncompromising, singular vision with a synthesis of the digital and the organic
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8.0
131654
8.0 |
The Irish Times
With an album that shifts and expands with every listen, she remains as effortlessly, uncompromisingly original as ever
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8.0
131656
8.0 |
The Independent
The album title is a feminised word for miner or digger, and its lyrical language taps into themes of deep-rooted connectivity and bursts of fleshy fruition
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8.0
131661
8.0 |
Evening Standard
A product of the Icelandic musician’s ‘fungus period’, this album requires full immersion
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8.0
131665
8.0 |
NME
The Icelandic icon's lockdown album was produced in a period of isolation and grief, but her tenth record retains its warmth and accessibility
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8.0
131670
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Fossora is another stark shift for Björk. But at its root, it’s her ability to sing with sincerity that allows the songs to flourish
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8.0
131671
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Theatrical, multi-layered, restless, searching, the music and songs of fossora are akin to four-dimensional sound sculpture
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7.4
131709
7.4 |
Paste Magazine
On the Icelandic icon’s 10th album, intricately arranged songs of grief and love initially come off imposing, but gradually build a fascinating world
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7.0
131674
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Ultimately, Fossora is another step in Björk’s perpetual evolution as an artist
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6.0
131698
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
While whittling down its ambitions might have produced a more cohesive set, Fossora bursts with evocative lyrical interpretations of the world around us, with pioneering sonic juxtapositions and tangible emotional stakes
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6.0
131794
6.0 |
Albumism
There is no flow, just disruption and a lack of space for the beautiful parts of the song to breathe
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