Björk is hoping to release her latest studio album this summer.
Last year, the Icelandic superstar revealed she’d made a record for “people who are making clubs at home in their living room” and, in a new interview, she confirmed the LP is due soon.
Revealing the downtime she experienced during the pandemic inspired her to create her latest work, she said: “Yes, this has never happened before. I’m kinda excited about it.
“Usually, once you commit to a tour, it seems to lock into a grid which is most often fun but at worst can become conveyor-belty.
“So to put something on pause for two years and write a whole album and then come back to it is going to be interesting.”
She added: “Well, the lifestyle changes in Covid were not that huge in Iceland. I live on a beach in Reykjavík, the capital, and even in the tightest lockdowns I could walk up and down it.
“Then of course, hikes in the mountains… we spend a lot of time in nature here. And even in town, most things stayed open. I managed to write a whole album without travelling breaks, which felt absolutely delicious!
“I haven’t stayed so much home since I was 16 – loved it,” she told LA Weekly (via Music-News.com).
Musing on plans to release the album in the coming months, she teased: “I’m finishing [the record] now, and it should probably come out in the summer.
“It’s always really hard for me to describe the album while I’m still making it.
“It isn’t until a few months later that I can look in the mirror and pretend there was a logic to it the whole time.”
In a different interview, she admitted the release date “depends on the speed of publishing in 2022. It’s sort of out of my hands. But I would say summer. That’s a rough estimate.”
