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Björk returns with another collaboration with Andrew Thomas Huang, together with Gucci&#39;s Alessandro Michele and headdress designer James Merry.The Gate is the first track taken from Björk&#39;s new album (produced by Arca) but the visual style is a continuation of the ethereal, performance and tech-heavy visuals that accompanied her previous one, Vulnicura. The change is is perhaps in the world around Bjork: it&#39;s turned into a much less forbidding and much brighter place, and Andrew Thomas Huang brings a CGI-enhanced&nbsp;vision to work with the extraordinary irridescent garment,&nbsp;designed by Alessandro&nbsp;Michele, that&#39;s worn by Bjork.&ldquo;The Gate is essentially a love song, but I say &lsquo;love&rsquo; in a more transcendent way,&quot; Björk has told Dazed magazine.&nbsp;&quot;Vulnicura was about a very personal loss, and I think this new album is about a love that&rsquo;s even greater. It&rsquo;s about rediscovering love&mdash;but in a spiritual way, for lack of a better word.&rdquo;

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She was briefly wrongfooted by having to rush its release a few weeks ago, but now&nbsp;the visual campaign for Björk&#39;s new album Vulnicura is in full swing, taking shape in a characteristically unconventional fashion. And it&nbsp;looks like she&#39;s established a collaboration with a super-talented director to rival her long-term creative relationship with Michel Gondry.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her work with Andrew Thomas Huang began with the video for&nbsp;Mutual Core from her last album, Biophilia. Now on Vulnicura, they have created <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiXQ5qaUGDI" target="_blank">the &#39;sound and vision installation&#39; for Black Lake</a> - shown in a special auditorium at the current Bjork exhibition&nbsp;at MoMA in New York. They have also created a &#39;virtual reality&#39; video for Stonemilker, also showing at MoMA PS1, and at Rough Trade record shops in London and Brooklyn.&nbsp;And also this.&nbsp;The video for the track Family&nbsp;is&nbsp;described as a &#39;moving album cover&#39; for Vulnicura (slightly confusing, as it&#39;s actually a lot less like the album cover shot than the video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/03/16/bj%C3%B6rk-lionsong-inez-vinoodh" target="_blank">Lionsong</a> by Inez and Vanoodh). But in effect Huang uses his considerable multi-disciplinary talents to build the Björk universe from scratch, starting in CGI and then merging into live action.It&#39;s&nbsp;not just creation, but a kind of regeneration, as we begin to distinguish a&nbsp;figure, prone on a&nbsp;rock and split down the middle. This becomes Bjork, lying on a rock within a familiar Icelandic landscape,&nbsp;and repeats the&nbsp;visual motif from the other Vulnicura videos&nbsp;of a small exposed area of chest, symbolic of a damaged heart.It finishes with a symbolic CGI-enhanced repair job, indicating how the healing process continues - an uplifting message, that draws the viewer into the wonderful world created by Björk - and Andrew Thomas Huang.&nbsp;

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