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Björk has taken to social media to reveal the details of her new album. Entitled Vulnicura, the record will be released in March.

Posting a handwritten note on her Facebook page, the enigmatic singer also listed the names of the tracks that will appear on Vulnicura: "Stonemilker," "Lionsong," "History of Touches," "Black Lake," "Family," "Notget," "Atom Dance," "Mouth Mantra," and "Quicksand."

Also in March, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is launching a retrospective to run March 8 to June 7, dedicated to Björk's career. As the MoMA retrospective wraps up, Björk will play the Governors Ball Music festival, happening June 5-7 on NYC's Randall's Island.

Björk's last album was 2011's Biophilia, which was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2013 Grammys.

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Long time Bjork fan here--I hope I like her latest offering better than the last. I found it too....sterile.

hell yes.........she's gonna be at the Governor's Ball as well

Do we know anything about what producers shes working with this time around?

Oh Heck Yeah! Gotta get that bluray concert too. Thanks ID.

lezama said:

Do we know anything about what producers shes working with this time around?

According to her label, she co-produced the album with young electronic artist Arca, who worked on Kanye's Yeezus and FKA twigs' second EP.

My biggest question is what it's gonna sound like. All of her albums are really distinctive.

Identity said:

lezama said:

Do we know anything about what producers shes working with this time around?

According to her label, she co-produced the album with young electronic artist Arca, who worked on Kanye's Yeezus and FKA twigs' second EP.

She's also working with the Haxan Cloak, whose work is really dark and industrial on the order of a NIN.

Lammastide said:

Identity said:

According to her label, she co-produced the album with young electronic artist Arca, who worked on Kanye's Yeezus and FKA twigs' second EP.

She's also working with the Haxan Cloak, whose work is really dark and industrial on the order of a NIN.

Wow.. two very interesting choices. Can't wait to get new music by her.

She's already announcing tour dates, starting in New York. So far...

march 7 - carnegie hall
march 14 - carnegie hall

march 25 - city center ( 8pm evening show )
march 28 - city center ( 12pm matinee show )
april 1 - city center ( 8pm evening show )
april 4 - city center ( 12pm matinee show )

june 5-7 - governor's ball

tickets : http://bit.ly/15eJTp5

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Björk: Intimate Vulnicura Shows in New York

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Lammastide said:

She's already announcing tour dates, starting in New York. So far...

march 7 - carnegie hall
march 14 - carnegie hall

march 25 - city center ( 8pm evening show )
march 28 - city center ( 12pm matinee show )
april 1 - city center ( 8pm evening show )
april 4 - city center ( 12pm matinee show )

june 5-7 - governor's ball

tickets : http://bit.ly/15eJTp5

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Thanks for this information. I'll do my best to attend at least one of these shows. The Biophilia performance was my concert of the year in 2012.

sexton said:

Lammastide said:

She's already announcing tour dates, starting in New York. So far...

march 7 - carnegie hall
march 14 - carnegie hall

march 25 - city center ( 8pm evening show )
march 28 - city center ( 12pm matinee show )
april 1 - city center ( 8pm evening show )
april 4 - city center ( 12pm matinee show )

june 5-7 - governor's ball

tickets : http://bit.ly/15eJTp5

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Thanks for this information. I'll do my best to attend at least one of these shows. The Biophilia performance was my concert of the year in 2012.

Please report back to us!

I saw her Toronto Biophilia show. Im excited to catch her on this followup tour.

unfortunately for björk, the album has leaked.

a friend played it for me, and on an initial listen, it's her best work since vespertine.

another masterpiece the likes of which we haven't heard from her in at least a decade.

Does she have a website of her own? bjork.com used to be the absolute BOMB last time I checked it, way back when.... does she have anything now?

I'm NOT going to torrent the album.... I *think* I can help it.....

scratch said:

unfortunately for björk, the album has leaked.

a friend played it for me, and on an initial listen, it's her best work since vespertine.

another masterpiece the likes of which we haven't heard from her in at least a decade.

Yep, the new album has leaked very early, but I'm choosing to buy a copy when it comes out in March.

Black Lake is hauntingly epic...

so did she break up with matthew? because this surely sounds like a break up album.

her perspective on the situation and her way of writing about it is so beautiful though.

IstenSzek said:

so did she break up with matthew? because this surely sounds like a break up album.

her perspective on the situation and her way of writing about it is so beautiful though.

According to Barney's Wikipedia page, they split in September 2013.

Lammastide said:

IstenSzek said:

so did she break up with matthew? because this surely sounds like a break up album.

her perspective on the situation and her way of writing about it is so beautiful though.

According to Barney's Wikipedia page, they split in September 2013.

thanks! i checked her page but didn't think about looking for it on his page

that lyrics about the rocket falling back to earth, i can't remember what song,

but that was one heck of a visual. brilliant analogy. love, love loved it. but i'm

not going to spoil it by repeated listens. i'm going to savor this album for the

whole year

Bjork makes my ears bleed. I don't get the "love" for her. Its atmospheric noise with a mousy voice on top of it and some random or made up deep sounding title like Vespertine, now Vulnicura (i know other titles preceded and followed these but...) ...go, STAY away already!

IstenSzek said:

Lammastide said:

According to Barney's Wikipedia page, they split in September 2013.

thanks! i checked her page but didn't think about looking for it on his page

that lyrics about the rocket falling back to earth, i can't remember what song,

but that was one heck of a visual. brilliant analogy. love, love loved it. but i'm

not going to spoil it by repeated listens. i'm going to savor this album for the

whole year

Bjork is one artist whose work I'm committed to supporting with $$$$. I couldn't resist checking out the leak, though. Lovely, occasionally melancholy, but never maudlin album. My immediate favourites are the opening and closing tracks.

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Lammastide said:

IstenSzek said:

thanks! i checked her page but didn't think about looking for it on his page

that lyrics about the rocket falling back to earth, i can't remember what song,

but that was one heck of a visual. brilliant analogy. love, love loved it. but i'm

not going to spoil it by repeated listens. i'm going to savor this album for the

whole year

Bjork is one artist whose work I'm committed to supporting with $$$$. I couldn't resist checking out the leak, though. Lovely, occasionally melancholy, but never maudlin album. My immediate favourites are the opening and closing tracks.

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the opening track is good, isn't it? it's like a cross between "jóga" and "all is full of love"

in some places and just a gorgeous song all on it's own in others. those strings!

Vulnicura Released Digitally Today
01/20/15

Remember when Björk posted a handwritten note on her Facebook page saying that she would be releasing her new album, Vulnicura, in March? Well, here we are, still in January, and Vulnicura is available to purchase on the U.K. iTunes store.

In a new post, the always surprising Icelandic singer revealed that the digital album will be gradually released worldwide over the next 24 hours.

Elsewhere in the post, Björk characterizes Vulnicura as a "complete heartbreak album."

"First i was worried it would be too self indulgent but then i felt it might make it even more universal," she writes. "Hopefully the songs could be a help, a crutch to others and prove how biological this process is: the wound and the healing of the wound. Psychologically and physically. It has a stubborn clock attached to it."

Though Vulnicura is being released now digitally, it appears that the CD and vinyl versions of the album will still be released in March as originally planned.

In support of Vulnicura, Björk will be playing six shows in New York City from March 7 to April 4. She'll return to NYC in June to headline the Governors Ball Music Festival.

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IstenSzek said:

so did she break up with matthew? because this surely sounds like a break up album.

her perspective on the situation and her way of writing about it is so beautiful though.

Guess you were right about this being a "break up" or, as Bjork puts it, a "heartbreak" album...

I'm really excited for all this upcoming Björk excitement. I really want to see one of her shows, as I foolishly missed out last time she performed... I'm kind of annoyed that the physical album and Mp3 album have separate releases now though

thekidsgirl said:

I'm really excited for all this upcoming Björk excitement. I really want to see one of her shows, as I foolishly missed out last time she performed... I'm kind of annoyed that the physical album and Mp3 album have separate releases now though

Why? Just wait for the physical CD. Bjork was forced to release it early via digital release due to leaks, the same way Madonna was...

purplethunder3121 said:

thekidsgirl said:

I'm really excited for all this upcoming Björk excitement. I really want to see one of her shows, as I foolishly missed out last time she performed... I'm kind of annoyed that the physical album and Mp3 album have separate releases now though

Why? Just wait for the physical CD. Bjork was forced to release it early via digital release due to leaks, the same way Madonna was...

Because I'm tempted to buy it now, but I want the physical cd and my cheapness forbids me from buying the same album twice.

I understand why they put it out early though.