Björk

Sonic Symbolism gives Björk room to describe the textures, colours and emotional climates behind successive albums. The conversations with collaborators make her visual language a practical route into the music, rather than an excuse to treat her as an inexplicable eccentric. Compare the Homogenic and Vespertine episodes for different ways of connecting sound, place and intimacy. She belongs here for the specificity of her thinking: even an unusual metaphor tends to lead back to a production choice, a mood or a structure worth hearing again.