Her music still teems with alien vim, but if you’ve ever seen a David Attenborough documentary, you know that Björk belongs here. For nearly three decades, she’s been voicing the emotions that shape our humanity: desire, courage, grief, love – all while evoking the most fantastic extremities of this pale blue dot. Her melodies can feel as volatile as splashy magma or as delicate as a bird of paradise doing a courtship shimmy, but for all of their weirdness and wonderment, a Björk song is only ever as strange as the natural world.
