So, the Icelandic chanteuse has done the only logical thing: she has just gone ahead and released the album, similar to the move Madonna made last month.

Within the next 24 hours, Vulnicura will be available digitally on iTunes and anywhere else you buy MP3s. The physical release of the album will still come in March as planned.

Bjork has released the following statement with the release: i guess i found in my lap one year into writing it a complete heartbreak album . kinda surprised how thoroughly i had documented this in pretty much accurate emotional chronology '. like 3 songs before a break up and three after . so the anthropologist in me sneaked in and i decided to share them as such . first i was worried it would be too self indulgent but then i felt it might make it even more universal . and hopefully the songs could be a help , a crutch to others and prove how biological this process is : the wound and the healing of the wound . psychologically and physically . it has a stubborn clock attached to it .