BJORK, Crystalline (from the forthcoming Biophilia, out Sept 2011)

Hard to believe, but it’s been four years since we’ve heard from Bjork. Apparently she’s been hard at work recently prepping a new album that’s set to release on September 27, 2011, Biophilia. Cyrstalline is the album’s first single, accompanied by a video directed by Bjork’s longtime collaborator, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, The Green Hornet). Both the track and the video are everything we’ve come to expect from Bjork - eccentric, sparse, and emotive vocals over digitized sounds that lead up to a battle of beats.

Bjork is jumping on the new-models-of-album-release bandwagon with Biophilia and will be issuing each track as an iPad App. Sounds gimmicky to me, but hopefully it’ll make it to the standard mp3 format soon enough.