Bjork has pushed back the release date for her new album ‘Biophilia’ to October 10th.
‘Biophilia’ is without doubt one of the year’s most complex releases. Part album, part performance, part app the material manages to criss-cross the relationship between technology, humanity and nature.
Pushing back the release for the studio album to October 10th, Bjork has admitted that she has been forced to re-think certain sections. Issuing a statement, the Icelandic singer revealed that performances in Manchester over the summer added a new dimension to how she perceived ‘Biophilia’.
“i played biophilia for few weeks in manchester and some of the songs grew while playing them live and i decided to add some of this into the album , i ended up even using a live recording of one of the songs on the album . take my hunch the whole distance but in order to do that i had to put the album back a bit”.
Continuing, Bjork explained that ‘Biophilia’ had “growth potential” saying: “i felt the album had different kinda growth potential than the app box and it is important to follow those hunches even though they are slippery and you don’t know sometimes where they are taking you”.
Furthermore, the singer revealed that Leila Arab was responsible for adding new sonic elements to the album while mastering engineer Mandy Parnell helped to pull the different sections together.
Read the full statement below:
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dear folks
i would like to explain why my album is coming out later than was first intended
after humongous and fun adventurous work with the app builders we handed in the music for the app box last may i felt sonically it fitted that underworld of apps and virtual reality like a glove , kinda acoustic and clean with a slick dark sub but somehow the cd needed more blood and muscles , oxygen and stuff
i felt the album had different kinda growth potential than the app box and it is important to follow those hunches even though they are slippery and you don’t know sometimes where they are taking you
i played biophilia for few weeks in manchester and some of the songs grew while playing them live and i decided to add some of this into the album , i ended up even using a live recording of one of the songs on the album . take my hunch the whole distance but in order to do that i had to put the album back a bit
my friend , the incredibly talented music maker leila arab came to iceland with no notice and added some sonic sculpting , especially to the bottom end and the great talented mastering engineer mandy parnell came over as well and helped me give the whole thing more warmth and flesh somehow
i am really happy i did this , seems like biophilia the album has a body
leila also introduced me to “current value” who now has put a new beat into one of the songs
hope you like it
warmth , björk
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‘Biophilia’ is due to be released on October 10th.
