Bjork to rush release album after leak
Bjork will release her new album months ahead of schedule after she became the latest artist to suffer an online leak.
The Icelandic singer said her first album in three years, Vulnicura, would be out within the next 24 hours and described it as a "complete heartbreak album" about a romantic breakup.
Songs from the album emerged on pirate sites on Tuesday, several days after Bjork had announced that Vulnicura would come out in March and provided a list of songs.
In a message on Facebook and Twitter, Bjork did not directly comment on the leak but instead thanked her fans for their interest.
Bjork described the album as a "pretty much accurate emotional chronology" with three songs before a breakup and three after.
"The anthropologist in me sneaked in, and I decided to share them as such. First I was worried it would be too self indulgent but then I felt it might make it even more universal," she wrote.
Internet leaks of albums have become increasingly common in an era in which reproducing music files requires little technical skill and pirate websites enjoy an eager listenership.
Bjork worked on her latest album with Arca, the Venezuelan DJ known for producing rapper Kanye West and the rising British trip-hop artist FKA twigs.
The singer last week announced a series of intimate New York concerts to promote Vulnicura including two nights at New York's Carnegie Hall, one of the world's premier classical venues.
