First Listen: Björk, ‘Crystalline’

First Listen: Björk, ‘Crystalline’
Earlier this month we got our first tease of Björk‘s new single Crystalline, the first from her upcoming new album Biophilia. As you may recall, Björk released a video of her driving in Iceland with her song playing thru the speakers. Today we get to listen to Crystalline in full! Click below to check it [...]

Earlier this month we got our first tease of Björk‘s new single Crystalline, the first from her upcoming new album Biophilia. As you may recall, Björk released a video of her driving in Iceland with her song playing thru the speakers. Today we get to listen to Crystalline in full! Click below to check it out and hear what Björk has in store for us all with her new iPad-inspired album.

The song sounds, to me, like an outgrowth of the music she made on her 2001 album Vespertine (which, I must add, is among my fave Björk albums). I am so intrigued by the notion that Björk‘s Biophila album was inspired by and created using the Apple iPad. Here is Crystalline:

Underneath our feet
Crystals grow like plants
Listen how they grow
I’m blinded by the lights
Listen how they grow
In the core of the Earth
Listen how they glow

Crystalline
Internal nebula
Crystalline
Rocks growing slow but
Crystalline
I conquer claustrophobia
Crystalline
And demand the lights

We mimic the openness
Of the ones we love
Daft till our generosity
Equalizes the flow
With our hearts
We kiss our quartz
To reach love

Crystalline
Internal nebula
Crystalline
Rocks growing slow but
Crystalline
I conquer claustrophobia
Crystalline
And demand the lights

Octagon, polygon
Pipes up an organ
Sonic branches
Murmuring drone
Crystalizing galaxies
Spread out like my fingers

Crystalline
Internal nebula
Crystalline
Rocks growing slow but
Crystalline
I conquer claustrophobia
Crystalline
And demand the lights

It’s the sparkle you become
When you conquer anxiety
Sparkle you become
Conquer anxiety
Sparkle you become
When you conquer anxiety
It’s the sparkle you become
When you conquer anxiety

I LOVE this track … altho the toy piano has that Vespertine sound, I also hear shades of Homogenic as well. I am really anxious for the release of this album. If Crystalline is any indication, I think I am going to LOVE Biophilia very much! What do y’all think, Björk fans … do you love this track?

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