Bjork releases Vulnicura
What the Icelandic art star Bjork has accomplished at the intersection of pop and the avant-garde
cannot be summed up in one detail, but one thing to focus on is the way she sings the word
"emotional." Climbing it like one of the cliffs she often evokes in her pastoral lyrics, she lets
it open up like a vista on its central, circulatory "o." The word becomes a Valkyrie's cry, a
statement of purpose both sacred and humanly thrilling. Read more at NPR