Björk is getting ready to release her new album Fossora on September 30. The trailblazing artist has already announced a career-spanning podcast that will start dropping episodes on September 1, and today we get a glimpse of the visual world Björk has created with the new album's artwork. The photo featured on the cover was taken by Vidar Logi with creative direction from Björk and James Merry.
"Each album always starts with a feeling that i try to shape into sound," she wrote on Instagram. "This time around the feeling was landing on the earth and digging my feet into the ground (after my last album utopia which was all island in the clouds element air and no bass)."
She continued: "It was also woven into how i experienced the 'now' this time around 7 billion of us did it together nesting in our homes quarantining being long enough in one place that we shot down roots. My new album Fossora is about that it is a word i made up it is the feminine of fossore (digger, delver, ditcher). So in short it means 'she who digs' (into the ground) so sonically it is about bass , heavy bottom-end , we have 6 bass clarinets and punchy sub."
Creative director Merry wrote: "Still pinch myself whenever @bjork invites me down the rabbit hole for another visual adventure into her album worlds… 13 years ago i started work as her assistant and she nurtured & encouraged so much of my own creativity, it changed my life forever thank you @bjork, cant wait for people to hear your wonderful album."
See her post featuring the album cover below, and find more info on her podcast here.
