This blog is becoming a Björk fansite more with each passing day, a process which seems to show no sign of coming to an end considering the album isn't even out yet. Today "Virus" leaked, a composition we hope will be a great step toward pulling back round some of the detractors who long for the 'simpler' days of Homogenic. No, the song is not a regression or a duplication of her sound sixteen years ago but a rather meek, unassuming song which relies on the dichotomy of the simplicity of melody and icily cruel nature of the lyrics.
Discussing the bitter sweet nature of love simultaneously with the passage of the virus, it is a fine example of what the aim of the Biophilia project is as well as being, quite simply, an excellent Björk song. Our eyes teared up at seeing this performed live, as the visuals concerning a healthy, glowing, beating blood cell being attacked by an army of radicals before turning cancerous were remarakably moving, yet the same effect was apparent at home on a laptop. Glorious and powerful.
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