The album "feels lighter than air, [...] flutes and woodwinds instruments punctuated by the sound of birdsong and the natural world".
It was co-produced by Arca, "whose twisted take on electronics give many of the songs their unusual form" and Rabit has co-production credits on some of the tracks too.
"Fusing beauty and brutality", there are still "moments of harshness [...] Rabit provides a crushing jackhammer rhythm on one of his tracks. But even these act to contrast with the buoyant sound of the rest of the album providing an overall feeling of weightlessness, an unwavering up-ness".
Some of the bird sounds that appear between tracks were recorded by Björk herself in the Caribbean, others come from David Toop and Nestor Figueiras' Hekura (a rare recording of shamanic rituals in Southern Venezuela).
She describes the album as "a dating album". "It's definitely about the search and about being in love".
Some of song titles: The Gate, Allow, Loss, Features Creatures.
Andrew Thomas Huang directed the video for The Gate, "which sees the musician wearing a bespoke dress designed by Gucci's Alessandro Michele and a headpiece by frequent collaborator James Merry". Björk says The Gate is "essentially a love song but love in a more transcendent way.
Vulnicura was about a personal loss, and I think this new album is about a love that is even greater. It's about rediscovering love but in a spiritual way, for lack of a better word".
Allow is "one of the most straightforward, melodic songs that she's played so far, though she isn't sure if she'll include it on the final record." The song is about her relationship with Arca.
Arca "encouraged her to pursue a direction that she'd hinted at on obscure cuts like Batabid and Ambergris March".
Loss, one of the Rabit collaborations, is "one of the immediate highlights" of the album,"pure feeling".
Features Creatures "describes the feeling of seeing someone with the same beard and the same accent as your lover. Is she talking about anyone specific? "Yeah," she says.
"I set myself up with the last album being a heartbreak album, so everyone's going to be like "Are you married?" with this one. But... it's too fragile still. I think, if I could, I'd just say this is my dating album. Let's just leave it there."
A yet unnamed track explores the idea of not only "discovering a personal paradise" but "building one for the planet" as well.
