Hace una semanas nos enteramos de la colaboración entre Arca y Björk. Hace unos días supimos que el nuevo disco estaba en una de sus fases finales y se tenía previsto que se lanzara a mediados de marzo. Apenas la semana pasada supimos que se agregarían un par de tracks adicionales y que aún no se tenía el nombre definitivo. Sin embargo, el 13 de enero Björk reveló el nombre: Vulnicura y los tracks que lo componían. Y supuestamente, por una filtración ilegal, se han decidido a lanzar el disco de modo anticipado, sin anunciar la colaboración de Antony Hegarty en la canción "Atom Heart" y sin dar detalles de la portada por Inez & Vinoodh. Vulnicura Aquí se puede descargar.

Björk publicó lo siguiente en su cuenta de Facebook:

i am so grateful you are still interested in my work !!

i appreciate every little bit !!!

i wanted to tell you the tale of making of this album

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 .

there is a way out

and then a magic thing happened to me : as i lost one thing something else entered . alejandro contacted me late summer 2013 and was interested in working with me . it was perfect timing . to make beats to the songs would have taken me 3 years ( like on vespertine ) but this enchanted arca would visit me repeatedly and only few months later we had a whole album !!! it is one of the most enjoyable collaboration i have had !

i then went ahead and wrote string and choir arrangements and recorded them in iceland

towards the end of the album i started looking around for a mixing engineer and was introduced by a mutual friend of ours , robin carolan to the haxan cloak . he mixed the album and also made a beat for one half of "family" . together with chris elms the engineer we kinda formed a band during the mixing process and this is the album we made !!!

i do hope you enjoy it

i would like to thank this overqualified little team ( where roles often blurred )

. i also would like to thank robin , his generous approvals gave me more courage to complete this as is .

and my group of songswapping / dj friends : the right tune can truly cure : ta for those sonic ointments

but most of all i would like to thank my team : james merry , derek birkett and emma birkett . rosemary and elisa . this album could not have been done without you