![]() ![]() The Dazed article revealed just how involved Arca, co-producer on Vulnicura, was on Utopia. Björk on her collaborative process with Arca on Utopia but just as a pure musician, we decided to enter this other world and this other island which is the Arca/Björk overlap." "I obviously saw a gigantic musician in, and I felt that he had gone into my world with such elegance and dignity and interpreted it, helped me what was there, that I wanted to meet on a more equal basis. She later clarified her comment, saying that the album would cover a different emotional terrain than her last record which she constantly referred to as her heartbreak album. She made headlines by describing the record as her " Tinder album". Björk stated that the album is an exploration of utopia, with its writing process coinciding with her own personal, political and environmental concerns. ![]() The first comprehensive media coverage on the album came from an article published by Dazed. ![]() With fourteen tracks in total, the album clocks in at 71 minutes and 38 seconds, making it the longest of Björk's studio albums to date. Utopia is an avant-garde and folktronica album. so I got very excited when i found these handmade wooden flutes imitating precisely particular birds." The set is valued at £500 and was released on 3 December 2019. In a statement, Björk explained, " Utopia is so much about birdsong and sonically the mutation between synth/bird, bird/flute, flute/synth. In addition to the flutes, the box set comes with a custom-made USB stick that features the music of Utopia, the Utopia music videos and remixes, and an exclusive unreleased instrumental track called "Arpeggio". Björk personally selected each type of flute, working with a French company called Quelle Est Belle, and the set comes with a booklet detailing how to use each flute and which bird it imitates. On 16 August 2019, nearly two years after the album was released, Björk announced the Utopia Bird Call Boxset as a way to celebrate the end of the Utopia era, a collection featuring 14 hand-carved wooden flutes that imitate various bird calls. "There were a lot of flute things I didn't completely explore," she said, "like more soloists and mysterious kind of flute playing," and added "We have some additional flute songs and some different kind of angles." While promoting Utopia, Björk revealed that she plans working on a live version of the album beginning in the spring of 2018. The album was released on 24 November 2017, with those who purchased the album receiving cryptocurrency in the form of 100 audiocoins (with a value of about $0.19), through a partnership with British blockchain startup Blockpool. On 15 November 2017, Utopia 's second single, " Blissing Me", was released as a digital download only, accompanied by a music video, directed by Tim Walker and Emma Dalzell, was released the following day. Jade Gomez of The Fader described the cover as "having a sense of eerily detached femininity." However, the makeup was done by Berlin-based drag queen Hungry. Jesse Kanda, Arca's frequent collaborator and director of Björk's "Mouth Mantra" music video designed the cover, which incorporated a silicone mask designed by frequent collaborator and mask maker James Merry. The release date of 24 November and cover art were unveiled on 31 October. The same day of the single's release, Björk announced the album's title, Utopia, during an interview with Nowness, stating she had "a thousand name suggestions" and "couldn't think of anything better" but it was open to change. The lead single, " The Gate" was announced on 12 September for a digital release the following week but received a surprise midnight release on 15 September. The announcement coincided with Dazed 's autumn 2017 cover issue with Björk which included the announcement of few song titles. Utopia was announced via social media on 2 August 2017 with a handwritten note by Björk. Speaking to The Fader in March 2017, filmmaker and collaborator Andrew Thomas Huang said that he had been involved with Björk on her new album, stating that "quite a bit of it" had already been written, and that the "new album's gonna be really future-facing, in a hopeful way that I think is needed right now." In an interview published in March 2016, Björk likened the writing to "paradise" as opposed to Vulnicura being "hell. Upon winning the award for International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards, Björk did not appear as she was busy recording her new album. "I kind of like the fact that it's a cliché, that word it has a fascistic, 'I want the world to be like this!' feeling about it, because it's a proposal (of) how we can live with nature and technology in the most optimistic way possible."ījörk began working on Utopia soon after releasing Vulnicura in 2015. ![]()
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