Björk Sings About Healing in 2015 Album, 'Vulnicura'
Björk released a new album, "Vulnicura" earlier than previously announced because the album leaked prior to its release. The album came out in January, two months earlier than its planned March release.
The eighth studio album is a personal journey for the Icelandic artist as she previously shared in her Facebook posts. Björk shared that she penned the six of the nine songs in "Vulnicura" and that is "a complete heartbreak album" with an "emotional chronology" to it.
The album's track list includes:
1. "Stonemilker"
2. "Lionsong"
3. "History of Touches"
4. "Black Lake"
5. "Family"
6. "Notget"
7. "Atom Dance" featuring Antony Hegarty
8. "Mouth Mantra"
9. "Quicksand"
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The singer hopes that the song would serve as a universal message of how the process of heartbreak can be a biological one: "The wound and the healing of the wound. Psychologically and physically, it has a stubborn clock attached to it."
The album's title "Vulnicura" translates to "Cure for Wounds" (Vulnus + Cura). It's about what may come to a person at the end of a relationship. It talks about the dialogues we may have in our heads and in our hearts, the healing processes."
The album debuted No. 20 on the Billboard Top 200. Co-produced with Arca, who is also Kanye's producer, "Vulnicura" is the singer's first album in four years after her 2011 album "Biophilia." She shares that it was in the summer of 2013 that Arca approached her and dropped a possibility of working together. The Venezuelan producer describes working with Björk as a form of "healing."
"The way she exists as a human being is a big influence on the way I exist as a human," he added.
Björk also opened her Museum of Modern Art exhibition last March 7 in New York. The exhibit featured a visual narrative of Björk's singing career.
There is no news yet, if the eccentric singer will go on a full tour for "Vulnicura" but Björk has had intimate shows in New York.
