Fossora
by Björk

Fossora by Björk
Year: 2022
Release date: 2022-09-30
Overall rank: 3,487th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 139 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2022 (45th)
Award Top albums of of the 2020s (219th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,487th)

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Björk bestography

Fossora is ranked 9th best out of 30 albums by Björk on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Björk is Homogenic which is ranked number 90 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,698.

Björk album bestography « Higher ranked (3,178th)
Utopia
This album (3,487th)
Fossora
Lower ranked (4,044th) »
Volta

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,487th | 2020s rank: 219th | 2022 rank: 45th

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Fossora ratings

Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 139 votes)
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From 04/23/2026 10:13 | #314082 | TOP COMMENT
Bjork has swapped traditional song structures for recurring motifs and, let’s face it, some downright strangeness.

She sounds like she has left the studio to record in caves beneath the forest floor which seems to provide much of the inspiration for this astonishing work.
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65/100
From 01/03/2023 10:56 | #292458
Album Rating: 62.73
(690/11)


1.Atopos (Feat. Kasimyn). 70
2.Ovule. 71
3.Mycelia. 12
4.Sorrowful Soil. 26
5.Ancestress (Feat. Sindri Eldon). 66
6.Fagurt Er Í Fjörðum. N/a
7.Victimhood. 51
8.Allow (Feat. Emilie Nicolas). 81
9.Fungal City (Feat. Serpentwithfeet). 77
10.Trölla-Gabba (Feat. Kasimyn). N/a
11.Freefall. 77
12.Fossora (Feat. Kasimyn). 78
13.Her Mother's House (Feat. Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney). 81
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80/100
From 10/25/2022 00:59 | #290776 | TOP COMMENT
This is great! She rediscovers/reimagines some of her old sounds and it works very well. It's like a clash of her albums Homogenic, Vespertine and even Medulla in a way.
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From 10/17/2022 17:15 | #290566 | TOP COMMENT
What is there to say about Björk and her oeuvre that hasn't been said already? Another magnificently unique, dense and original work of real complexity that continues to push new conceptual realms while exploring different instrumentation and sonic palettes. Although I agree with the previous comment that the pieces could benefit from a little more melodic direction, I always find Björk's voice to be gorgeously expressive and emotive just by itself and often think multiple listens are essential for the music and its meaning to really unlock and reveal the true beauty underneath.
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60/100
From 10/16/2022 16:05 | #290526 | TOP COMMENT
Bjork of course is always interesting and a new album is always much anticipated. But I have the same problem with "Fossora" that I had with "Utopia", the lack of memorable melodies. On almost every song Bjork just seems to sing in the same key and uses the same vocal phrasing which leave the listener with no discernible melodies to grab on to. It's like the songs float into one ear and out the other. The hooks of "Debut","Post","Homogenic" and "Vespertine" are long gone and we are just left with another frustrating and cold Bjork album. It's original, different and interesting but Bjork albums are just not compelling anymore. Bring back the melodies.
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