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Biophilia by Björk

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Moon 5:45 67,787
2 Thunderbolt 5:15 60,914
3 Crystalline 5:08 83,829
4 Cosmogony 5:00 60,882
5 Dark Matter 3:22 52,776
6 Virus 5:26 52,469
7 Sacrifice 4:02 45,785
8 Mutual Core 5:06 46,560
9 Solstice 4:42 42,231
10 Hollow 7:08 48,177
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About this album

One Little Indian 10 tracks (50:54)
Biophilia is the musical project and eighth full-length studio album from Icelandic singer Björk. The album was released on October 10, 2011, over four years after her last original studio effort Volta (2007).

The album is “partly recorded” on an iPad and will be released in the form of a series of apps. Biophilia will be the world’s “first app album” in collaboration with Apple. Björk has described the project as a multimedia collection “encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows”. Material from the album was debuted during a concert series which was held in the summer of 2011 at the Manchester International Festival.

Music from Biophilia first appeared in the iPad app “Solar System”. The app, developed by Touch Press and Faber and Faber and written by author Marcus Chown, is an eBook with interactive 3D objects, movies, animations, and diagrams “based on real scientific data”, along with images from NASA, the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. From June, every song in the album will be released as a single app for iPad, twice a month. The first song to be released as an app (which is also considered the first single) is “Crystalline”. The video was directed by long-time collaborator Michel Gondry and shot on May 26.

“Biophilia” for iPad will include around ten separate apps, all housed within one “mother” app. Each of the smaller apps will relate to a different track from the album, allowing people to explore and interact with the song’s themes or even make a completely new version of them.
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  • Axiemeister

    why is Hollow the last track and not between Dark Matter and Virus, though?

    Saturday afternoon

  • handcuter

    You can re-listening this album a hundred times and you will always find some new notes and joy!

    last week

  • hallofmirrors

    "the dark, booming, almost organic sounding basslines in contrast with her voice feels extraterrestrial" this is exactly how I'd describe it.

    last week

  • hallofmirrors

    Still love this.

    last week

  • djt525

    This album sounds like it's not from Earth , I love it !

    last week

  • ProgClow

    Björk went full avant-garde. You never go full avant-garde.

    13 days ago

  • Axiemeister

    Dark Matter is brilliant. Hollow really is a bit flat to me though.

    14 days ago

  • misterwelch

    Biophilia is like Duchamp's fountain was in the past: ahead of its time. It will take some years to most people realize how brilliant this album actually is.

    18 days ago

  • SpiritOfYetaxa

    And, oh Dark Matter. funny, really, the ones people hate the most, being called 'boring' are my favourites

    18 days ago

  • SpiritOfYetaxa

    God, this is awful, but I love Hollow, purely for its weird atmospherics

    18 days ago

  • Fox_Genetrix

    Just awful. I feel like she doesn't do well with complete creative control, she needs to start taking account other people's opinion unless she's going to have yet another stinker.

    18 days ago

  • inspectra

    It's interesting, and some of the tracks just don't have that much for me. But the electronics and her vocals complement each other really well at times, and the powerful electronic breakdowns at the end of Crystalline and Mututal Core are great. I'm still undecided about the rest of the album, though.

    19 days ago

  • Axiemeister

    I think this is better than Vespertine and Medulla suck it bitches

    19 days ago

  • d0l

    i am in love. the dark, booming, almost organic sounding basslines in contrast with her voice feels extraterrestrial. cosmonogy is truly awe inspiring.

    20 days ago

  • UltraXndres

    Love the end of Crystalline

    20 days ago

  • jeff071

    Love her 90s work but this is just.... horrible. Just awful. All time low IMO.

    21 days ago

  • astroholiday

    Lol @lewi91 that part on Virus still grinds my gear. I can't with that awful metaphor/sad excuse for a lyrics.

    last month

  • Armyofme_02

    Magical <3

    last month

  • Prince_de_Rien

    f*ck all the experts express their not so humble opinion about Björk n Biophilia?huh? Of course they bring always as an argument that Hollow is boring/uninspired so I must tell them. Next please. This is not a Homogenic page not either a pop conventional artist's work.

    last month

  • R3CURSION

    I just started picking up on the strong classical Asian influence all over this album, and I can't believe it took me so long.

    last month
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