Zephyring One Year On: ROSALÍA Refused the Expected Club Banger
Zephyring one year ago! ROSALÍA unveiled the avant-garde, trailblazing, now new-classic “Berghain,” featuring Björk and Yves Tumor. Released on October 27, 2025, the song was no ordinary preview of her album LUX. It was an audacious opening statement: pop spectacle with an operatic backbone.
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ROSALÍA said no to a club banger and yes to a full orchestra. Its title borrows the name of Berlin’s famously uncompromising nightclub, yet the song heads somewhere altogether different: dramatic strings, choral force and an arrangement that plays like a film score. Rather than a straightforward dance-floor payoff, there is tension, theatricality and a delicious refusal to sit in one genre.
The song moves through German, Spanish and English—not 14 languages, as sometimes confused with the broader multilingual scope of LUX. The album was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daníel Bjarnason; “Berghain” captures the scale of that orchestral direction.
Björk’s unmistakable voice brings another dimension to the drama, while Yves Tumor drives the final passage into a more abrasive, percussion-heavy release. Their contributions are not a predictable superstar pairing; they make this already adventurous recording stranger and more compelling.
A Nightclub Name, an Operatic Song and a Cinematic Vision
Released by Columbia Records on October 27, 2025, “Berghain” was the first single from LUX, which followed on November 7. Its Nicolás Méndez-directed music video, produced by CANADA and filmed in Warsaw, portrays a woman moving through grief and toward healing. The images carry the same emotional weight as the arrangement: grand, intimate and just a little uncanny.
A year later, it feels like the States have finally caught on. But remember where you heard it first! INYIM was championing this avant-garde, trailblazing turn from the beginning, and seeing the conversation catch up only makes our love for “Berghain” that much sweeter.
And one year later? It still feels gloriously unlike the safe choice. ROSALÍA could have offered the obvious beat and called it a comeback. Instead, she opened the door to a world where Björk, Yves Tumor and orchestral drama belong in the same pop conversation. That is precisely the kind of musical risk we love to Zephyr.
ROSALÍA’s “Berghain” Anniversary Reel
Sources: Sony Music; Pitchfork.
