Utopia

The greatest strength of Utopia is the sense of immersion that the music gives you, the compositions are very freeform, especially in the vocal melodies, many songs feature multiple vocal lines stacked together and they definitely help create this ethereal, rising feeling. It echoes the lyrical themes of the album very well, which are mainly romance and optimism, these topics are not alien to Björk’s discography, but the way they’re conveyed in “Utopia” are incredibly creative, like on “Body Memory” and “Tabula Rasa”.

There are some obvious downsides to the album though, the production, while amazing in quality, had in my opinion underutilized the flute and birdsong elements, compared to the strings on “Vulnicura”, they simply do not offer the same emotional impact. And while the ambience of the album is great, many individual songs are not particularly memorable, which is my biggest complaint.

Songs I Loved: First 5 songs + Losss + Tabula Rasa + Saint
The other songs are fine, I probably would not listen to them individually outside of the context of the album though