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There were plans to harness all of our rivers for aluminium factories. They built the factory, but not all the dams. Iceland is the size of England, without Wales or Scotland. But if you had harnessed all the rivers to create the biggest aluminium factory in the world – as they wanted to – basically the highlands would have gone, that would have been it.” Cragg, Michael (20 November 2019). "Björk review – a spectacular vision of Utopia". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 21 November 2019. a b c Pareles, Jon (29 August 2004). "Björk Grabs The World By the Throat". The New York Times . Retrieved 18 April 2016. Layne, Joslyn (1990). "Björk / Gudmundar Ingólfsson Trio review". Allmusic . Retrieved 30 December 2012. Björk at MoMA: It's oh so disappointing". The Economist. The Economist Newspaper Limited. 16 March 2015 . Retrieved 25 April 2015.

Ellen, Barbara (21 July 2001). " 'I used to think I'd live forever...' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 January 2016. Björk Releases "Stonemilker" Virtual Reality App". Pitchfork. 21 December 2015 . Retrieved 15 January 2016.

Björk: Even venture capitalists understand our future is in nature". TheGuardian.com. 2014 . Retrieved 15 June 2014.

Army Of Me> Published by Universal Music/Perfect Songs Ltd. ℗ 1995 Wellhart Ltd/One Little Indian Ltd. Although Björk continued to receive more mainstream attention for her videos than her singles, Post included several UK pop hits and was eventually certified platinum in the US. [27] Björk also contributed to the 1995 Hector Zazou collaborative album Chansons des mers froides, singing the traditional Icelandic song " Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu". Schjeldahl, Peter (17 March 2015). "MOMA's Embarrassing Björk Crush". The New Yorker. Condé Nast . Retrieved 25 April 2015.She thinks about that connection a bit more, has another go: “I think her biggest radical thing was basically taking me out of the patriarchy to live in a tiny little house that leaked when it rained. Right on the edge of wild nature. But I think what happened is in the 90s, both my mother and my father, we all started in three very different ways, with our group of friends, becoming quite radical with the environment.” Hildur went on a hunger strike, for example, in 2002, to protest against the US company Alcoa building an aluminium smelter and dams for a hydroelectric plant in the Icelandic highlands. She lasted 23 days, before ending her fast.

Whiteley, Shelia (2013). Too Much Too Young: Popular Music Age and Gender. Routledge. p.105. ISBN 978-1-136-50229-3. Kornhaber, Spencer. "Björk's 'Vulnicura' Is the Definition of Devastating". The Atlantic . Retrieved 30 April 2018. It is hard to think of anyone as symbolic of their nation as Björk. The singer has lived away from Iceland over the years – in London and New York, and is often on tour – but when she’s been away she has always felt, she says, like she is “holding her breath”, both in anticipation of return and in memory of purer air. In recent years, since her relationship with the artist Matthew Barney ended in 2013, she has lived pretty much full-time near Reykjavik, where she has witnessed the great surge in tourism to the island, which has risen from a few hundred thousand annual visitors 20 years ago to almost 2 million now.

Björk will headline We Love Green festival in Paris". Mixmag.net. 3 December 2017 . Retrieved 14 March 2019. When Björk's stalker tried to kill her with a letterbomb". faroutmagazine.co.uk. 2 June 2021 . Retrieved 1 September 2023. Plagenhoef, Scott (9 June 2004). "Björk: Debut Live / Post Live / Homogenic Live / Vespertine Live". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved 9 July 2014. Live, Vespertine 's glitch-pop nuances are magnified, the choir is less cloying, and the music box melodies are more embraceable. Bjork Writes About Icelandic Environment, Economy | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. 29 October 2008 . Retrieved 14 May 2018.

Greatest Albums: Post – Bjork". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012 . Retrieved 23 December 2011. Harrington, Jim (19 January 2022). "Bjork talks her 'post-ecstatic' tour and new album". The Mercury News. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022 . Retrieved 20 January 2022.Denis, Jacques. "Björk, avant la sortie d'"Oral" avec Rosalia: "L'élevage intensif du saumon ravage les fjords islandais" ". Libération (in French) . Retrieved 10 November 2023. She has been involved in protest for 30 years, she explained to me, “but always in Iceland, where I know it can actually make a change – which later maybe could be an exemplary case [internationally]. We have,” she says, “the largest untouched natural area in Europe and a lot of us feel like guardians of this, you know, the way that you guys are guardians of whatever… ” she laughs. “Brexit, maybe?” In June 2011, the first single from Biophilia, " Crystalline", was released. [72] The song was composed using one of the several instruments custom built for the project, the "gameleste", a celesta modified with elements of gamelan. A central part of Biophilia was a series of interactive iPad apps made by programmers and designers, one app for each of the 10 songs on the new album. The second single, " Cosmogony", which served as the "mother app" for all the others, was released on 19 July 2011, followed by " Virus" and " Moon". Biophilia was the first album to be released, in October 2011, as a series of interactive apps. [73] Also in part of the project was Björk's Biophilia education programme, which consisted of workshops for school-children aged 10–12, that explore the intersection of music and science. The Reykjavik City Board of Education brought the programme to all schools in the city over the next three years. [74]