Björk Gets Groovy with Fungi in the Video for New Single “Atopos”

It’s the first song and video from her forthcoming album Fossora.

Björk Gets Groovy with Fungi in the Video for New Single “Atopos”

It’s the first song and video from her forthcoming album Fossora.

Words: Margaret Farrell

September 06, 2022

If you woke up this morning with a desire to watch Björk dance around a luminous field of mushrooms with a woodwind accompaniment and pounding drums, (a) understandable, and (b), you're in luck—Björk's video for the first single she's sharing from her forthcoming LP is more mysterious and whimsical than the dream you forgot immediately after getting out of bed. The avant-garde artist is getting ready to share her latest album Fossora on September 30, and today she's shared the single "Atopos"—boasting six bass clarinets—and a video directed by Viðar Logi.

"I am so happy to share with you the first video of my album to the song 'atopos,'" Björk wrote in an Instagram post. "Because of the enormous importance of bass in this song, could you please play it loudly?"

Of the video she adds, "Dear viðar logi, thanks for all your joyus celebratory energy and for being up for taking on all the challenges i threw at you !! you transformed all of them into a viðar logi vision, I couldn't possible have had a better visual partner in the pandemic .... I am so incredibly grateful for our journey, I can't believe the amount of things we've done in the last 3 years !!"

Watch the video for "Atopos" below.