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Best New songBjörk — the gate
Posted by LetsLoop on September 18, 2017, 2:27 pm Exciting news, loopers... @Björk is back! The Gate is the lead single to the Icelandic experimentalist's upcoming 9th studio album, Utopia, which is due in November and follows up her truly breathtaking 2015 album, Vulnicura.Here's what Björk had to say about her new single:
"The Gate is essentially a love song, but I say love in a more transcendent way. Vulnicura was about a very personal loss, and I think this new album is about a love that's even greater. it's about rediscovering love – but in a spiritual way, for lack of a better word."
Björk recently described her upcoming album as "the Tinder album", before going on to explain:
"It’s about that search (for utopia) – and about being in love. Spending time with a person you enjoy on every level is obviously utopia, you know? I mean, it’s real. It’s when the dream becomes real."
To promote the new single, Björk held a special screening of her video for The Gate in London's The Store Studios over the weekend, before releasing the official video earlier today.
The short film was directed by visual artist Andrew Thomas Huang and features Björk wearing a bespoke dress designed by Gucci's Alessandro Michele and a headpiece by regular collaborator James Merry.
Here's what Andrew had to say about the video:
"It is the first glimpse into Björk's utopia. The doorway lies within the wound from Vulnicura, which now appears transformed into a prismatic portal channeled between the chests of two lovers. Not lovers in the quotidian romantic sense, but in a broader cosmological way. As a throughway into Bjork's new album, The Gate is a declaration of hope sung by a woman refracted and re-formed into a luminous whole."
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