It's okay, everyone. The world might be going to hell in a handbasket, but here comes Björk to make everything okay again.
Reykjavik Arts Festival takes place in May 2026, presumably in Reykjavik and not, like, Bognor Regis or something. The festival announced a fancy new installation from Björk as part of their line-up, and along with that there will be a new Björk album.
The exhibition will be called Echolalia, which is the name for when someone involuntarily repeats words. Children do it a lot, as do some people with autism and Tourettes, as did my old neighbour Lovely Philomena who would always repeat the last three words of anything you ever said.
"I've just been to the shop to buy milk, feta cheese and some mouldy old doughnuts."
"Mouldy old doughnuts."
She (Björk not Philomena) created the exhibition with Gloucestrian-turned-Icelander James Merry, who also worked on the visual presentation – and funky masks – for her Cornucopia tour. Some of those masks were wild: they looked like birds and beasts and barnacles.
The new album is “currently in development”. In my world, this means I have thought about it but haven't actually started any of the work. My epic fantasy novel set on Uranus is in development. My conceptual triple-album about bionic snails is in development. This blog post is in development.
The world feels more heavenly: it's always exciting to have more Björk in our lives.
"In our lives."
Thanks, Philomena.
Further Fats: Blade Runner 2049, Jóhann Jóhannsson and an origami cow (2017)
Further Fats: Best electronic music albums of 1995 – Autechre versus Bjork (2020)
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