Björk's album 'Vulnicura' hits iTunes two months early due to pesky leak

It was oh so quiet in Björk land until the Icelandic singer revealed that her new album Vulnicura — her first since 2011's multimedia project Biophilia — would arrive in March

An online leak of the album soon followed the announcement, and on Tuesday, Björk responded by releasing the nine-track Vulnicura and cover art early on iTunes

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Vulnicura was one of the most-anticipated albums of 2015. The avant-garde artist described its creation process on Facebook:

i guess i found in my lap one year into writing it a complete heartbreak album . kinda surprised how thoroughly i had documented this in pretty much accurate emotional chronology .... like 3 songs before a break up and three after . so 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 . and hopefully the songs could be a help , a crutch to others and prove how biological this process is : the wound and the healing of the wound . psychologically and physically . it has a stubborn clock attached to it Read more...

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