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Björk has discussed the shock release of her new album Vulnicura for the first time, and her gratitude to fans. Hear the interview below.
The icon opens up her Icelandic punk origins, playing Carnegie Hall for the first time, the 'gazillions' of painful disco ballads and how "her heartbreak record" of "torch songs with beats" came when she was still touring Biophilia.
She discusses how she immediately felt when the leak.
“There is no way to say how you should react," she says. "In my situation, I had one thing going for me - the album was mastered and ready. I don’t know how I would have reacted if it was four months before. It might have been messier.... And I think also, because of the nature of the album for me emotionally, it’s the sort of subject matter where I really wanted to just get it out of the way, over and done with it. My gut reaction was immediately like that. It was an immediate album and I did it so quickly and it was like ‘Oh, it’s leaked, let’s just put it out.'"
She also explained that her manager initially tried to reassure her that they had 'erased all the leaks' and that the original release date would still stand, but Bjork remained unconvinced.
Bjork also reiterated how much she enjoyed working with Arca in Iceland. “I work a lot on my own.... I actually like it, I don’t document it at all. It’s quite a secretive process for me. When [Arca] came, I’d done all the songs already, the strings and the structure of the song. A lot of it was done. When he came into it, it was more like a celebration, both because he’s total magic and so fun to be with.”
Hear Zane Lowe's interview with Bjork below
Vulnicura is out now on iTunes.
