Album review: Bjork - Vulnicura
It’s around the start of ‘Family’, the sixth song on Bjork’s ninth album, Vulnicura, when she asks if there’s a place “where I can pay respects for the death of my family”?, that you realise you’ve gone through a whole packet of tissues in drying up your tears.
This is a break-up album to be filed alongside Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago. Whereas the beauty masked some of the pain on Justin Vernon’s debut, things are much rawer here, charting Bjork’s falling-out-of-love with the American artist, Matthew Barney. In a recent interview, the Icelandic singer, who adorns the album cover dressed like a blossoming latex flower, said that when she listened to the songs, they felt like diary entries.
