Sigh.

This is going to seem really petty (and people have had a go at us for this in the past) but we're not happy with the artwork for Björk's new album/app/experience, Biophilia. It's not that we don't like it (in fact it's a big improvement on the monstrously bad Volta artwork) it's just that it's... not right. Let us explain: of course, it's aesthetically pleasing, it's appropriate, you might even say it's beautiful. But it doesn't fit.

Throughout the course of her career, Björk has been responsible for some of the most breathtaking, audacious, eyewateringly beautiful album artwork of any artist working in the realm of music. Her first five albums all featured a stunning, instantly memorable, totally unique little portrait of her, her face, her magnificent hair, an outfit only she could pull off without it wearing her. And then it all went awry. This is the story so far:




This is how it should have gone, really:




You know we're right.