Björk hasn’t launched a brand new album in 4 years, her final being 2022’s Fossora. However there’s sufficient motive to imagine a brand new one is on the way in which. Right here’s every part we all know thus far.
Has the album been introduced?
Formally, no. However in December, an Instagram put up revealed that Björk and artist James Merry can be taking up the Nationwide Gallery of Iceland in the course of the Reykjavik Arts Competition, which opens on Might 30. Dubbed Echolalia, the exhibition contains three “immersive installations,” two of that are named after the Fossora tracks ‘Ancestress’ and ‘Sorrowful Soil’. The third, nonetheless, hints on the artist’s subsequent part, “a brand new work based mostly on music from her forthcoming album, at present in growth,” in accordance with the pageant.
What’s Echolalia, anyway?
“A medical situation during which somebody repeats the phrases that another person has simply stated, in a method that they can’t management,” in accordance with the Cambridge Dictionary. Although not definitely the title of the album, there might be some attention-grabbing thematic connections.
Has Björk stated something concerning the album?
Not explicity. She’s achieved some interviews, although. Final yr, she gave her first filmed interview since 2018 with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I all the time write one tune a month, one each two months,” she stated. “It doesn’t matter what occurs in my life, it’s like the complete moon or it’s similar to a rhythm as a result of I’ve been doing it so lengthy. So I feel the minute after I launch an album, a part of me is so relieved and so uninterested in the subject material that I’m tremendous excited to do one thing [the] exact opposite. So I begin gathering data or analysis or no matter tech is occurring as effectively. However then simply to contradict what I simply stated… I additionally actually get bored very simply, so I by no means need to do it twice the identical.”
What’s saved Björk busy since Fossora?
She launched a live performance movie documenting her Cornucopia tour, which is why she went on The Zane Lowe Present. She additionally collaborated with Rosalía for the tune ‘Oral’ in 2023, after which once more in 2025 for LUX‘s lead single ‘Berghain’.
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