Spain · UK · USA · 2025
Contemporary

Berghain

Rosalía, Björk, and Yves Tumor walk into a Berlin nightclub. What comes out the other side is something none of them could have made alone.

A song named for a space of dissolution that ends up being about the opposite — the accumulation of faith, language, and the body under spiritual pressure.
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Released October 27, 2025 as the lead single from Rosalía's fourth studio album Lux, "Berghain" features Björk and Yves Tumor, and was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daníel Bjarnason. The song cycles through German, Spanish, and English — each section sung by a different voice, each language carrying a different register of the same spiritual reckoning.

Rosalía later clarified that the title was inspired by the literal German meaning — "mountain grove" — rather than the Berlin nightclub directly, though the song leans into the club's mythology of chaos, darkness, and transformation. Opening with verses from Hildegard of Bingen, it moves from Rosalía's introspective soprano through Björk's desperate appeal for divine intervention to Yves Tumor's confrontational close. Three artists, three languages, one unbearable question.

Lux (album)BjörkYves TumorLondon Symphony OrchestraHildegard of Bingen
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Flamenco → orchestral pop
El Mal Querer (2018) → MOTOMAMI (2022) → Lux (2025). Each album a complete genre reinvention. Berghain represents the most radical departure: Rosalía's classical training — Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu — finally fully surfaced.
Björk as lineage, not feature
Rosalía cited Björk in her 2025 Elle interview: "If Björk and Kate Bush exist, it means there's another way to make pop." Their collaboration on Berghain is less a feature than a passing of something — a logic of artistic refusal that Rosalía is now the inheritor of.
Sacred music underground
Hildegard of Bingen → Montserrat choir → London Symphony Orchestra → Berghain's subwoofers. The song collapses the distance between medieval sacred music and contemporary club culture. Both are, at their root, music for altered states.
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Pitchfork, 2025
Berghain — Single Review
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Consequence, 2025
Rosalía unveils new song Berghain with Björk, Yves Tumor
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Wikipedia, 2025
Berghain (song) — full critical record
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