Utopia
by Björk
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 November 2017
- Label: One Little Independent, One Little Indian
- Country: Iceland
- Length: 1:11:38
- Community rating: 3.74/5 from 23 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Co-produced with Arca, 'Utopia' represents a deliberate sonic pivot from the string-laden heartbreak of its predecessor, 'Vulnicura', building an airy, avant-garde world from a twelve-piece Icelandic flute ensemble, lush synthesizers, and harp. The album's sprawling 71-minute runtime explores themes of finding love and hope after loss, functioning as a proposal for an ecological and emotional paradise, with tracks often bridged by field recordings of birdsong to complete its immersive, organic soundscape.
Genres
Descriptors: flute, nature, avant-garde, experimental, expansive
Tracklist
- Arisen My Senses (04:59)
- Blissing Me (05:05)
- The Gate (06:33)
- Utopia (04:42)
- Body Memory (09:46)
- Features Creatures (04:49)
- Courtship (04:44)
- Losss (06:51)
- Sue Me (04:57)
- Tabula Rasa (04:42)
- Claimstaker (03:18)
- Paradisia (01:44)
- Saint (04:41)
- Future Forever (04:47)
Credits
- Björk - vocals, producer, writer, flute arrangements, vocal arrangements, choir arrangements, cello arrangements, conceived by, protools editing, structure, creative director, cover character
- Arca - co-producer, co-writer, electronics, synth melodies, beats, conceived by
- Júlía Mogensen - cello
- Hamrahlíðarkórinn - choir
- Hávarður Tryggvason - contrabass
- Sarah Hopkins - co-writer
- Rabit - co-producer
- Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir - conductor
- Jesse Kanda - artwork, cover art, photography, creative director
- Juliette Larthe - cover production
- James Merry - assistant creative director, visual co-creative director, facepiece, creative director
- M/M (Paris) - creative director
- Bart Migal - engineer
- Bergur Þórisson - engineer
- Chris Elms - engineer
- Heba Kadry - mixing
- Marta Salogni - mixing
- Mandy Parnell - mastering