August 3, 2017
Björk Calls Upcoming LP Her 'Tinder Album'
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Bj�rk is gearing up for a new album. After launching a pre-order for the LP on her website earlier this week, the Icelandic singer is opening up on the yet-untitled album with Dazed magazine, calling her upcoming effort her "Tinder album."
The "Earth Intruders" singer is on the cover of the latest issue of Dazed and says her new album, which was unfinished when the article was written in mid-June, was coproduced by out musician Arca, who worked on Bj�rk's 2015 LP "Vulnicura," Stereogum reports.
She said they started working on the new album shortly after finishing "Vulnicura," calling her work with Arca the "strongest musical relationship I've had." She compares their relationship to Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius for "Hjira."
"You can tell they're doing the tango. It's that synergy when two people lose their ego," Bj�rk told Dazed (via Stereogum).
She went on to call her album her "dating album," and mentioned the dating app Tinder.
"It's like my Tinder album. It is definitely about that search - and about being in love. Spending time with a person you enjoy on every level is obviously utopia, you know? I mean, it's real. It's when the dream comes real," she said.
She also added that the new LP is somewhat political.
"Maybe that's why it became a utopian theme - if we're gonna survive not only my personal drama but also the sort of situation the world is in today, we've got to come up with a new plan," Bj�rk told the magazine, according to Stereogum. "If we don't have the dream, we're just not gonna change. Especially now, this kind of dream is an emergency."
The singer also let slip a few possible names for songs, which include "Allow," "Features Creatures" and "The Gate," which she called a "love song." Dazed writer Selim Bulut who spoke with Bj�rk got a sneak peak at the LP and wrote the new songs "feel lighter than air" and writes "['Vulnicura']'s elegiac string arrangements [are] replaced by flutes and woodwind instruments."
Earlier this week, the singer took to social media to announce her new album was "coming very soon." Click here to pre-order the album.