Björk: “I always write one song a month – it’s like the full moon”

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Björk has opened up about her creative process, revealing that she “always write[s] one song a month”.The Icelandic singer-songwriter sat down for a rare filmed interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 where she discussed her new Cornucopia concert film, out on Apple TV+ tomorrow (January 24).At one point in the conversation, Björk explained: “I always write one song a month, one every two months.

It doesn’t matter what happens in my life, it’s like the full moon or it’s just like a rhythm because I’ve been doing it so long.“So I think the minute when I release an album, part of me is so relieved and so bored with the subject matter that I’m super excited to do something [the] complete opposite.

So I start gathering info or research or whatever tech is going on as well. But then just to contradict what I just said… I also really get bored very easily, so I never want to do it twice the same.”She continued: “So sometimes, I will first write all the songs, like I did [2015’s] ‘Vulnicura’ just with string arrangement songs, and then I do the next stage.

Or sometimes I will start the complete other… Like with ‘Utopia’ [2017], maybe on flute arrangements, doing flute arrangements for a year and rehearsing with flute players in my cabin every Friday, and with us driving there and gelling together as a group and just becoming really good friends, and that becomes the heart of an album.“And then afterwards, I will stick other stuff on top.