NEWS: Bjork Half Way Through Seventh Studio Album

Bjork has told Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið, that she is halfway through completing her seventh studio album. She also alluded to a tour plan for later in the year by saying "Hopefully I will be able to be on tour in the fall".

Bjork said she was wary of giving too many details about the album away, adding: "I have had some bad experiences with a number of things before. I'm very superstitious. I go into the studio with a plan to go do what I have in mind, and then the idea is half dead."

The singer did reveal that one of her new songs has been inspired by experiences she'd had after attending a conference organised by National Geographic magazine.

"I saw 100 talks and met eccentric people who had been in Africa for four years with lions and insects," she said. "Then one night after drinking whiskey with them I began to hear stories. This is one of the collaborations I can talk about."

Bjork has recently finished writing a song for a short film called 'Lee, With Love, Nick' dedicated to the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Alexander designed the artwork to Bjork's third studio album Homogenic.