Top 10 electronic music albums of 2022: Björk – Fossora

Hurrah! It's time for my Top 10 album countdown, blog post by blog post until we get to the Bestest Fave Top Mega Best Album of 2022. (I may not actually call it that.) 

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Björk: Fossora (One Little Independent)

Electronic Sound: “It’s happened. Bjork has finally become a mushroom... the organic matter she’s absorbing is deeply personal. The loss of her mother, but hope for the future. Fagurt Er í Fjörðum features a poem by Latra-Björg, an 18th-century fisherwoman who believed she could cast spells with words. There are millions of species of fungi. Some will poison you, some are indeed magic. Bjork does it all here.”

The astonishing thing about Bjork is that no-one could invent her. You could imagine someone coming up with a Coldplay or a Drake. But where do you start with Bjork? She’s fully choral and fully techno and fully alien and fully human. Fossora manages to be completely industrial and ethereal at exactly the same time. She is everything everywhere all at once. With extra clarinets. I’m so glad she invented herself.

Curious track: Allow because Bjork keeps saying Allow and I like it when Bjork says Allow.

Album feels: It feels like that bit in the Matrix when Keanu's inside that soggy space pod getting sucked off.

Cover art: A perfectly normal picture of the Queen of Fungi with a plasma globe hairdo.

From another website: Fossora is not her mushroom record, her grief/hope opus, or even her Iceland album as she put it. It’s the sound of Björk building her home as the mother of it all. (Pitchfork)

This is part of a series of the Best Electronic Music Albums of 2022. Read it all here.