Bjork has always taken the unconventional route, and this week is no exception. Her latest album Biophilia was due to hit stores today but, in adventurous fashion, the creative dynamo from Iceland is delaying the release to add some live versions of her latest work.
Her army of fans will no doubt be happy to hear they only have to wait until 19th October to hear the reworked version, and in the meantime, Bjork has left them in no doubt of her enduring individuality, writing, producing AND art-directing a colourful video for her song Moon
The musician has also taken to her website to give her fans a full explanation for the delay of Biophilia:
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