Björk has revealed that her next album will be released in 2027.
Taking to Instagram to clarify details about her upcoming Echolalia exhibition and accompanying Iceland rave to mark the total solar eclipse, she refuted fan predictions that the LP would also be titled Echolalia and confirmed that she is currently working on the record.
“I saw all your comments and wanted to massage out a potential misunderstanding that has been floating around: Echolalia is not the title of my next album”, Björk wrote. “It is an umbrella-exhibition-name. An umbrella that gives two of my Fossora songs the treatment I always dreamed of, and some new music.”
She continued: “I always wanted to put ‘Ancestress’ and ‘Sorrowful Soil’ into a room, spatial situation? Those songs didn’t seem like live songs, the kind best experienced in private with many speakers. And with Andy Huang’s and Viðar Logi’s visuals of course. We re-recorded the choir and have textile scores to be enjoyed too.”
Björk also confirmed that the exhibition will feature a third song, which will be a version of a new album track. Its final form will appear on next year’s record, and no new music will be released ahead of the exhibition and solar eclipse rave.
“I know it is a long time, but five years passed between my last two albums and I enjoyed that enormously”, the Icelandic artist wrote. “I seem to spend longer every time in the world-building and it is extremely satisfying to align all the different elements (how equilibrian of me!)”
Echolalia will run at the National Gallery of Iceland from 30 May to 19 September. The solar eclipse rave is scheduled for 12 August, and will take place at Víðistaðatún sculpture park in Hafnarfjörður.
