Sobre el álbum
La discografía de Björk nos regala con este álbum un antídoto luminoso a la oscuridad de su predecesor. 'Utopia' es la reconstrucción de un paraíso personal, un manifiesto sobre la posibilidad de encontrar un nuevo amor y crear un mundo mejor. El paisaje sonoro es deliberadamente aéreo, pastoral y orgánico. Björk construye este Edén sonoro a partir de arreglos para un conjunto de doce flautas, cantos de pájaros y las etéreas texturas electrónicas de Arca, quien vuelve a colaborar en la producción.
El álbum es expansivo y generoso, con canciones que se toman su tiempo para florecer. Por ejemplo, "The Gate" describe la sanación como un portal luminoso, mientras que "Blissing Me" es una tierna oda al amor en la era digital. La naturaleza no es solo una metáfora, sino un componente activo del sonido, creando una atmósfera inmersiva y llena de vida. A diferencia del dolor claustrofóbico de 'Vulnicura', 'Utopia' es un espacio abierto y lleno de esperanza. Es un trabajo valiente que imagina un futuro posible y lo construye con sonido.
Listado de Canciones
- Arisen My Senses4:59
Just that kiss Was all there is Every cell in my body Lined up for you Legs a little open Once again Awaken my senses Head topless Arisen my senses Just that kiss Was all there is My palms pulsating of The things I want to do to you Just that kiss Is all there is Weaving a mixtape With every crossfade For him a he Is WWW For him a he Is WWW Once again Weaving a mixtape With every song For who I am For, for, with love With love Awaken my senses Just that kiss Once again Was all there is Just that kiss Once again Arisen my senses Was all there is Once again Just that kiss Arisen my senses Was all there is For him a he Once again I'm made to merge With him, for him a he I'm made to merge With him, for him a he Am I keen, or keen, or not keen? For him a he Too keen, too seen, to be seen Am I keen, or keen, or not keen? Once again I'm made to merge With him, by him, he sees me for who I Am I keen, or keen, or not keen? To be seen or not seen With him a he Am I keen, or keen, or not keen? With him a he He sees me for who I am - Blissing Me5:05
All of my mouth was kissing him Now, into the air, I am missing him Is this excess texting a blessing? Two music nerds obsessing He reminds me of the love in me I'm celebrating on a vibrancy Sending each other MP3s Falling in love to a song This handsomest of wickermen He asked if I could wait for him Now, how many lightyears this interim While I fall in love with his songs? His hands are good in protecting me Touching and carressing me Well, would it be trespassing Wanting him to be blissing me? Robbing him of his youth? Cliffhanger like suspension My longing has formed its own skeleton Bridging the gap between singletons Sending each other's these songs The interior of these melodies Is perhaps where we are meant to be Our physical union a fantasy I just fell in love with his song So, I reserve my own intimacies I bundle them up in packages My rawward longing far too visceral Did I just fall in love with love? - The Gate6:33
My healed chestwound Transformed into a gate Where I receive love from Where I give love from And I Care for you I care for you Split into many parts Splattered light beams into prisms That will reunite If you Care for me And then I'll care for you Didn't used to be so needy Just more broken than normal Proud self sufficiency My silhouette is oval It is a gate I can Care for you from I care for you you Care for me - Utopia4:42
Bird species never seen or heard before The first flute carved from the first fauna Utopia It’s not elsewhere Let's purify You assigned me to protect our lantern To be intentional about the light Utopia It isn't elsewhere It’s here My instinct has been shouting at me for years Saying: Let’s get out of here! Huge toxic tumor bulging underneath the ground here Need to purify the air here Purify, purify, purify toxicity - Body Memory9:46
Letra
First snow of winter I'm walking hills and valleys Adore this mystical fog This fucking mist These cliffs are just showing off Then the body memory kicks in I mime my home mountains The moss that I'm made of I redeem myself I've been wrestling my fate Do I accept this ending? Will I accept my death Or struggle claustrophobic? Fought like a wolverine With my destiny Refuse to accept what was meant to be Then the body memory kicks in And I trust the unknown Unfathomable imagination Surrender to future Oh, how to capture all this love And find a pathway for it Like threading an ocean through a needle River through a keyhole Can't fathom the grasp I can't grasp the fathom Then my body memory kicks in My limbs and tongue take over Like the ancestors before me Show me the flow My sexual DNA X-rays of my kama sutras Summons different bodies Compares spines and buttocks And back of necks Then my body memory kicks in It simply takes over Beastiality I redeem my body I wasn't born urban Toxic doesn't agree with me Love lured me here Into a stagnant state My myths, my customs, ridiculed Vacuum-packed molecules Then my body memory kicks in On this Brooklyn dance floor Sweating with these rhythms Rotate this matrix I'm trapped in legal harness Kafka-esque Farce like patriarchy Avoided to confront it Then the body memory kicks in My warrior awakens My turn to defend Urban didn't tame me Then my body memory kicks in All bosoms and embraces Oral, anal entrances Enjoy the satisfaction If the other is growing - Features Creatures4:49
Letra
When I spot someone Who is same height as you And goes to same record stores I literally think I am five minutes away from love When I hear someone With same accent as yours Asking directions With the same beard as yours I literally think I am five minutes away from love Isn't it odd? Isn't it peculiar? These statistics of my mind Shuffling your features Assembling a man Googling love Warming my heart on this log-fire of love Features creatures Features creatures Features creatures (Features creatures) - Courtship4:44
Letra
He turned me down I then downturned another Who then downturned her The paralysing juice of rejection His veins full of lead He's left with loving what he lost More than what he has My snakeskin cold in the dark But warms up in the light I then upturned a green-eyed giant Who upturned and entered me Will we stop seeing what unites us But only what differs? The ghosts of old loves Hovering around his orifices His orifices As you narrate your own heart-tale You thread souls into one beam The love you gave and have been given Weave into your own dream I trust my cells to rearchive My love historic stream - Losss6:51
We all are struggling, just doing our best We've gone through the grinder, suffered loss Lost to, to which everything flows, an absence which Attracts flora blooming softly Soft is my chest, I didn't allow loss Loss make me hate, didn't harden from pain This pain we have will always be there But the sense of full satisfaction too I opened my heart for you Your lower lip so heavy on you My spine curved, erotically We're finally vulnerable Loss of love, we all have suffered How we make up for it defines who we are It defines us, how we overcome it Recover, repair from loss Loss of faith just ignites survivors They stare doubt straight into the eye I forgive, the past is bondage Freedom aphrodisiac I've opened my heart for you Tied ribbons on my ankles for you Drew orchids on my thighs for you Your lower lip so heavy on you My spine curved, erotically Tied ribbons on my ankles for you Drew orchids on my thighs for you Your lower lip so heavy on you My spine curved, erotically We're finally vulnerable - Sue Me4:57
Letra
My tear duct clogged My left eye broken Medicate with warm compress Extract hardened tears Sue me, sue me, sue me - all you want I won't denounce her origin Sue me, sue me, sue me - all you want I won't denounce our origin I've ducked and dived Like the mother in Solomon's Tale To spare our girl I won't let her get cut in half, ever But it's time to teach you some dignity Sue me, sue me, sue me - all you want I won't denounce our origin Sue me, sue me, sue me, sue me - all you want I won't denounce our origin (no I won't) He took it from his father Who took it from his father Who took it from his father Let's break this curse So it won't fall on our daughter And her daughter And her daughter Won't let this sink into her DNA Sue me, sue me, sue me - sue me all you want I won't let you denounce our origin Sue me, sue me, sue me I won't let you denounce our origin, no I won't Just can't take her suffer It's so unfair The sins of the fathers They just fucked it all up We had the best family We had it all We had it all in our hands He just pulled us through the wringer Narcissistic - Tabula Rasa4:42
Letra
We are all swollen From hiding his affairs Let's put it all on the table Let it all out It is time He mustn't steal our light Clean plate Tabula rasa for my children Clean plate Not repeating the fuck-ups of the fathers My deepest wish is that You’re immersed in grace and dignity You will have to deal with shit soon enough I hoped to give you the least amount of luggage You got the right to make your own fresh mistakes And not repeat other's failures Clean plate Tabula rasa for my children Let's clean up Break the chain of the fuck-ups of the fathers It is time For us women to rise, and not just take it lying down It is time The world, it is listening Oh how I love you Embarrassed to pass this mess over to you But he led two lives Thought ours was the only one You are strong You are strong You are strong You're so strong - Claimstaker3:18
Letra
I walk through this land Stake a claim With my sense With my bark Mark my nest with song Hear the echo from that cliff I draw laser lines through lake To take physicality Inhale I inhale this physicality This forest is in me This forest is in me I immerse me This is my home - Paradisia1:44
- Saint4:41
Letra
She always knows when people need stroking And is attracted to deathbeds and divorces I dreamt she cared for my dying grandfather Lying naked face down on his bed She insists on total presence And knows how to get through to the rest of us She has entered me thousandfold often And undone knots at my most awkward Music loves too She reaches out to orphans and refugees Embraces them with thermal blankets Her favorite childhood moments Were at a hospital for the disabled I've seen her offer empathy to widows She attends funerals of strangers Her strongest memory is feeding children with leprosy Music heals too I'm here to defend it - Future Forever4:47
Letra
Imagine a future and be in it Feel this incredible nurture, soak it in Your past is on loop — turn it off See this possible future and be in it Hold fort for love, forever We're just momentary vessels We're just carrying Trust your head around Guide your stare elsewhere Your love is already waiting You're already in it Hold fort for love, forever Watch me form new nests Weave a matriarchial dome Build a musical scaffolding Between sleep and awake Day and night (Between night and day) You say I mirror people's missions at them Now you mirror at me who I used to be What I gave to the world, you've given back at me Hold fort for love Forever