(One Little Indian)
Björk exudes a lust for life again on her self-styled ‘Tinder album’,a hope-filled set powered by flutes and birdsongTo talk of Björk’s Utopia as a rebirth is no stretch. On the cover of her ninth solo album she emerges as though from an iridescent caul. Her brow has been modified into a uterine shape; pearls plunge from fallopian flowers.
It wouldn’t be a stretch either to note that after the austere, extreme Vulnicura the 2015 album that marked the pain and fury of Björk’s separation from the father of her daughter – Utopia harkens back to the nature love of older albums such as Biophilia and Vespertine, or the default lust for life Björk has exhibited throughout her long career.
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Source: guardian.co.uk