Björk has announced a new solar eclipse rave she will be hosting in Iceland this summer, and confirmed that a new album is arriving in 2027.
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The new event is a one-day festival held in Víðistaðatún, Hafnarfjörður on Wednesday August 12, and dubbed Echolalia. It will host a DJ set from Björk, as well as performances from electronic music star Arca and local talent Sideproject and Ronja Jóhannsdóttir.
During the event, there will be a two hour eclipse where the site will be bathed in the natural half-light, and just over one minute of “totality”, where the moon completely obscures the sun and creates total darkness.
The event will also include celebrations to mark 40 years of the Icelandic record label, Smekkleysa, and those who buy tickets to the rave will also get admission into Björk’s Echolalia exhibition at Reykjavík’s National Gallery of Iceland.
The showcase will have three new songs of hers presented “on a theatrical scale”. The first two are ‘Ancestress’ and ‘Sorrowful Soil’, both composed by Björk in memory of her late mother, and the third will be officially shared on the singer’s new album, which has not yet been officially announced and will be released next year.
Visit here for tickets and to browse exclusive merchandise for the event, including a compilation of new Icelandic music curated by Björk.
Announcing the rave on Instagram, Björk shared that she was “grateful and thrilled” to unveil the event, and wanted to clarify that there had been “a potential misunderstanding” about the “Echolalia” title.
“Echolalia is not the title of my next album. It is an umbrella-exhibition-name; an umbrella that gives two of my ‘Fossora’ songs the treatment I always dreamed of, and some new music,” she wrote, adding that she wanted to showcase ‘Ancestress’ and ‘Sorrowful Soil’ in a new way as they “didn’t seem like live songs”.
The new versions on display at the exhibition will see them “re-record the choir and have textile scores to be enjoyed too”, she explained, also adding that the third song will be a brand new song from an upcoming album.
“The new music is a version of a song. The final version will be on the new album in 2027,” she added. “Before you buy your tickets, I want to make sure that you know that I will not be sharing the final instrumentation of my next album until next year.”
Concluding, she wrote: “I know it is a long time, but five years passed between my last two albums and I enjoyed that enormously. I seem to spend longer every time in the world-building and it is extremely satisfying to align all the different elements.”
As well as the rave and the new Echolalia exhibition, this summer will also host a separate exhibition in Iceland called Metamorphlings, which showcases work by long-time artistic collaborator James Merry and will run from May 30 to September 19.
Björk spoke to NME back in 2022 about her connection with live music and Iceland, and revealed that while she is often travelling and going to new events, she ultimately feels grounded when she returns to her home country. “ “I’m not really an urban person,” she said, explaining the balance between her social life and natural settings. “I love visiting cities and going clubbing or seeing a gallery or concert, but then I just want to go home. I’m more of a rural person by nature, so it was just a total blessing for me to be [in Iceland during the pandemic.”
The musician’s last studio album was 2022’s ‘Fossora’, and last December it was revealed that there was a new album on the way – when she first teased the ‘Echolalia’ exhibition with James Merry.
In a four-star review of ‘Fossora’, NME wrote: “An album of reinfatuation and reaffirmation, ‘Fossora’ is invigorating in its drive, if there’s little of real surprise here; hard as the mushroom-gabber beats are, if you’ve heard Pluto or Mutual Core, you won’t be shocked. And pop has, to an extent, caught up with Björk a little; to those raised on Blackpink, hyperpop and trap, ‘Fossora’ would hardly be so scary.”
Since then, Björk wrapped up her ‘Cornucopia’ tour in December 2023, shared the accompanying concert film in 2025, supported the ‘No Music For Genocide’ campaign by making her back catalogue unavailable for streaming in Israel, and described Spotify as “probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians”.
She is also soundtracking a new sci-fi multiplayer game called SEED, and appeared with Rosalía for a performance at the 2026 BRIT Awards.
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