With her new album ‘Fossora’ being released on 30th September 2022, singer-songwriter Björk has created a podcast to prepare her fans for her upcoming 10th studio album. The first three episodes of her new podcast are dedicated to her first three albums: Debut, Post and Homogenic. New episodes covering her other albums will be released weekly, running up to the release of ‘Fossora’.

The Icelandic singer expresses her life through her albums. In the podcast she discusses the textures and emotional landscapes with her friends; philosopher and writer Oddný Eir, and curator Ásmundur Jónsson, guiding the listener into the mind of the musical genius.

She describes her album art as homemade tarot cards, they have symbols that create emotion with the colour and pose of herself, producing a…sonic symbolism, explaining the meaning behind the podcast title.

**Björk singing during a tour in 1997.**
**Credit:** Flickr, Anna Soler

For a taste of the podcast in episode one, she talks about ‘Debut’, her first studio album that she released after leaving her former band, The Sugarcubes, being the lead singer since she was 11 years old. Being in bands was limiting to her as the music consisted of the same instruments, going her own way and making music of her own allowed her to experiment more with different sounds and instruments, leading up to the release of ‘Debut’.

Björk describes herself as a homebody. She talks about how the coronavirus pandemic brought her back to her homeland, Iceland. The artist has had to bounce back after recent years of divorce, death and her youngest child finally leaving home. All of this has allowed her to record her 10th album, grounding herself in her homeland again that she hadn’t been back to much since she was 16 years old.

Sonic Symbolism is a podcast worth listening to, showing an insight of Björk’s life and the beauty behind her musical thought process. She is a force to be reckoned with.

Rating of podcast: 10/10

Review: Björk: Sonic Symbolism Podcast