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Björk has confirmed she has a new album coming out soon. The album, titled Fossora, is the follow-up to 2017’s Utopia and is due later this year.

Björk has revealed the title of her new album ‘Fossora’, and discussed how it concerns the death of her mother in 2018.In a new interview with The Guardian, the Icelandic singer officially announced the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Utopia’, which is touted to arrive this autumn.Two songs from the record, ‘Sorrowful Soil’ and ‘Ancestress’, are said to be directed tributes to the singer’s mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, who died in 2018.On the latter track, she sings: “The machine of her breathed all night while she rested / Revealed her resilience / And then it didn’t.”Discussing her mother’s death at the age of 72, the singer added: “That’s quite early. I think me and my brother were not ready to … we thought she had 10 years left.

Thao has shared a cover of Björk‘s ‘Human Behaviour’ for Mental Health Awareness Week – watch her rendition below.The singer-songwriter (real name Thao Nguyen) has teamed up with non-profit organisation Sounds Of Saving (SoS) to deliver a new rendition of Björk’s 1993 track, the lead single from the Icelandic singer’s debut studio album, ‘Debut’.“I chose Bjork’s ‘Human Behaviour’ because to me it marks a renewal and a revival of my own interest in music, in my own recommitment to the joy of music,” Thao said of her cover (via Stereogum).“Growing up, most of the access to music I had was only the radio. I didn’t have an in to music that wasn’t easily accessible to me, you know? And so to choose a song that I don’t know that well by an artist that I don’t know that well, but whose energy and whose commitment and devotion to music is so well known, it was a great opportunity to embody the difference that I’m looking for.”You can check out Thao’s version of ‘Human Behaviour’ below:SoS is a 501c3 Music x Mental Health nonprofit organisation.

Björk has shared that she would like to see more female directors taking on the Viking Age in film and TV.The musician and actor stars in Robert Eggers’ new viking epic The Northman as a whispering Seeress predicting the future of Alexander Skarsgård’s Amleth.The film follows Amleth as he seeks revenge for the murder of his father, played by Ethan Hawke, and aims to save his mother Queen Gudrún, played by Nicole Kidman. Other stars include Anya Taylor-Joy, Claes Bang and Willem Dafoe.Posting to Facebook after attended the Icelandic premier of the film, Björk shared a statement about her role and to thank those involved.“so proud to be part of this,” she wrote.

Björk in The Northman.The actor plays lead character Amleth in the third feature film from director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Witch), starring alongside Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe.The most unique cast addition is Björk, who plays a seeress, whose last feature film acting credit was in 2005’s Drawing Restraint 9 from director Matthew Barney.Speaking to NME about acting alongside the musician, Skarsgård said: “I felt very lucky. It was crazy.“I don’t think you see it on camera in that scene, but we shot it in that burnt out barn after the big raid. And Björk when it was her shot, behind her I could see it was just this gigantic full moon right behind her head and it felt so perfect for that scene and her character and the way she looked.

Björk in The Northman has just been shared exclusively with NME – take a look above to watch it.The musician and actor stars in Robert Eggers’ viking epic as a whispering Seeress predicting the future of Alexander Skarsgård’s Amleth.The film follows Amleth as he seeks revenge for the murder of his father, played by Ethan Hawke, and aims to save his mother Queen Gudrún, played by Nicole Kidman.Anya Taylor-Joy also stars in the film as Olga, alongside Claes Bang as Fjölnir, Amleth’s uncle, and Willem Dafoe as Heimir the Fool.Eggers co-wrote the screenplay for The Northman with the Icelandic poet Sjón, who has previously collaborated with Björk on the songs ‘Jóga’, ‘Cosmogony’, ‘Oceania’, and others.The filmmaker had previously directed The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, and folk horror film The Witch which starred Anya Taylor-Joy.Last year, British actor Ralph Ineson, who also stars in The Northman, shared further details from the movie.“It’s an enormous movie,” he told NME. “I saw a four-minute montage of some of the stuff they’d already shot and I was really blown away.

Björk has said she is currently “finishing” her upcoming 10th album, revealing that it will “probably come out in the summer”.Back in October 2021, the Icelandic musician explained that the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Utopia’ was “for people who are making clubs at home in their living room” during the COVID-enforced lockdown.Björk described the record’s sound as being like “a man who was headbanging, then sat down again and had another glass of red wine, and everyone is home by 10 o’clock, done with the dancing and everything”.The artist also revealed that her new tracks were mostly around the 80-90 beats per minute mark because that is the speed she walks at.Speaking in a new interview with LA Weekly this week, Björk explained: “I’m finishing [the new album] 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.”During a separate conversation with The Mercury News, the singer said the record’s release date “depends on the speed of publishing in 2022”.

Björk has shared some details of what to expect from her next album, including its readiness for at-home clubbing, in a new interview.The Icelandic musician has been working on the follow-up to her last record, 2017’s ‘Utopia’, in recent months.In an interview with Iceland’s national broadcaster RÚV, Björk said her 10th studio album is “for people who are making clubs at home in their living room, restricted to their ‘Christmas bubble’”.Of the record’s sound, she described it as being like “a man who was headbanging, then sat down again and had another glass of red wine, and everyone is home by 10 o’clock, done with the dancing and everything”.

Björk‘s son Sindri Eldon has responded to a resurfaced interview where he claimed to be a better songwriter than his mother.Over the past few days, an interview Eldon gave over a decade ago has resurfaced online, with fans paying particular attention to the segment where he compares his mother’s talents with his own.In the interview, Eldon said: “My main statement will be to prove to everyone what I’ve secretly known for ages: that I’m a better songwriter and lyricist than 90 per cent of Icelandic musicians, my mother included.”After many online criticised his comments, Eldon gave new context for the comments, and put distance between his past and current self.“Ok.

Björk‘s 2017 album ‘Utopia’ is now just worth 4p.Purchases of the album came with 100 ‘Audio Coins’ reported by The Next Web to be worth around $0.20 (15p) at the time of the album’s release.Now, as reported in a new Record Of The Day mailout (via The Line Of Best Fit), these 100 coins have significantly decreased in value and are worth just over 4p.The sale of the Audio Coins along with the album came as a partnership between Björk and British startup Blockpool, who said at the time: “This isn’t about jumping on a bandwagon or trying to get rich quick.