New Bjork album inspired by‘National Geographic’

Wed 19th Jan, 2011 in International News

Bjork recently held a three-day karaoke marathon in protest against foreign ownership of Iceland’s natural resources (as you do) and although it’s kind of interesting to hear her cover Love Will Tear Us Apart the news that she’s about “halfway there” on the follow-up to 2007’s Volta and hoping to “be able to be on tour in the fall” is far more exciting.

We don’t expect Bjork to do anything too predictable and even the news that she’s working on a new album has arrived via an unusually complicated path: a December interview published in the Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið, translated into Spanish, then into broken English, and finally posted on Facebook this week.

In the interview Bjork complains that “I find it so annoying that I always do the same. So if I get a new instrumental base, then it’s like I have a new one, but I admit I am a bit innovative -.. otherwise I would probably die of boredom is very exciting start blindfolded without knowing anything and that is what I feel. There will be some ‘risk’. This project is, I can promise that.”

Although she is wary of offering many details about the album – “I have some bad experiences with a number of things before. I’m very superstitious. I go into the studio with a plan to go do what I have in mind, and then the idea is half dead” – she does note that her new songs are inspired by a National Geographic conference she recently attended. “I saw 100 talks and met eccentric people who had been in Africa for four years with lions and insects,” she explained, “Then one night after drinking whiskey with them I began to hear stories. This is one of the collaborations I can talk about.”