Björk
Vespertine
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
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Hidden Place full track | 5:15 | 170,993 | ||
| 2 |
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Cocoon full track | 1:30 | 109,103 | ||
| 3 |
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It's Not Up to You full track | 5:24 | 101,923 | ||
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Undo full track | 5:48 | 100,242 | ||
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Pagan Poetry full track | 5:30 | 191,170 | ||
| 6 |
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Frosti full track | 1:41 | 104,192 | ||
| 7 |
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Aurora full track | 1:31 | 102,905 | ||
| 8 | An Echo a Stain | 4:05 | 18,277 | |||
| 9 | Sun in My Mouth | 1:30 | 85,132 | |||
| 10 | Heirloom | 5:12 | 65,194 | |||
| 11 |
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Harm of Will full track | 4:31 | 86,665 | ||
| 12 |
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Unison full track | 6:22 | 89,043 |
About this album
Vespertine, released in August 2001, is an album by the Icelandic singer/songwriter/musician Björk. It sees Björk creating an introverted, quiet world of swirling microbeats and personal lyrics. On the cover she can be seen wearing the swan dress (designed by Marjan Pejoski) that caused a stir at the 2001 Academy Awards.
Björk uses an array of sampled objects to create beats and soundscapes in a number of songs on Vespertine, including shuffling cards on “Cocoon” and “Hidden Place”; snow being walked upon on “Frosti”, and ice being cracked and smashed on “Aurora”.
Vespertine is Björk’s longest album, at 55:33 (apart from compilations).
“Hidden Place”, “Pagan Poetry” and “Cocoon” were released as singles from the album. A rumoured fourth single, “It’s Not Up to You”, never made it to release, presumably because of the birth of Björk’s daughter Isadora.
The lyrics to “An Echo, A Stain” are taken from Sarah Kane’s play Crave.
The lyrics of “Harm of Will” were written by Harmony Korine and are about Will Oldham.
The last track on the album, “Unison,” uses a sample of St Paul’s Cathedral Choir singing a segment of Patrick Gowers’s Viri Galilaei recorded in 1994.
Björk uses an array of sampled objects to create beats and soundscapes in a number of songs on Vespertine, including shuffling cards on “Cocoon” and “Hidden Place”; snow being walked upon on “Frosti”, and ice being cracked and smashed on “Aurora”.
Vespertine is Björk’s longest album, at 55:33 (apart from compilations).
“Hidden Place”, “Pagan Poetry” and “Cocoon” were released as singles from the album. A rumoured fourth single, “It’s Not Up to You”, never made it to release, presumably because of the birth of Björk’s daughter Isadora.
The lyrics to “An Echo, A Stain” are taken from Sarah Kane’s play Crave.
The lyrics of “Harm of Will” were written by Harmony Korine and are about Will Oldham.
The last track on the album, “Unison,” uses a sample of St Paul’s Cathedral Choir singing a segment of Patrick Gowers’s Viri Galilaei recorded in 1994.
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Shouts
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bsidetrack_ wrote:
God, I love this, and it's even better live. Amazing.
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cookieduff wrote:
Perhaps one of the best album of History.
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credibilitydryv wrote:
Could listen to this music for hours.
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Constellation66 wrote:
Magical. Never has an album flowed so perfectly as this one.
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InfectiousElf wrote:
SO amazing!
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double-thumb wrote:
agreed. one of the best album ever written...
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meister333 wrote:
Best album of the decade!
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niespodziewanka wrote:
fav by her. so magical, so beautiful <3
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niandra_lades wrote:
absolutely beautiful
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mogdorgluke wrote:
<33333333333333333333333333333 pagan poetry
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FernandaAS wrote:
I love this album! Björk <3<3 Aurora , Pagan Poetry and Hidden Place *o*
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tyrique12 wrote:
Good album, but some of the tracks just aren't long enough. Homogenic is better in my eyes. <Vespertine is 11 minutes longer than homogenic, retard
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cookieduff wrote:
I didn't appreciate it at first, but then i bought "Vespertine Live at The Royal Opera House" and it blew my mind, i just realized how amazing this album is, Beautiful, Amazing, Personal, words can't describe this work. Even if u don't like Björk this is a must have.
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TreesCanBeGreen wrote:
A very, very special album.
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ZeroZeroni wrote:
one of the best sleepalbums ever
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annurr wrote:
Good album, but some of the tracks just aren't long enough. Homogenic is better in my eyes.
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AinaTahti wrote:
Having this album on a mp3 player is killing the TRUE music, but it's impossible to live without "Vespertine".
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handfulofsky wrote:
as if "unthinkable surprises about to happen" listening to it..
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yinxianghecheng wrote:
Her best album by far. It's magical.
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w_1_7 wrote:
So this album might be considerd her sex album?!?! If you listen to the lyrics. She's not being to shy about it. Especially on cocoon.
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Recent Activity
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mjnorte added Björk – Sun in My Mouth to his Loved Tracks. Saturday afternoon
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mjnorte, tinabinaboobops, Ocajian and 2 other people loved Björk – Aurora. Saturday afternoon
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mjnorte, rockingirl92 and chiefcuster loved Björk – Pagan Poetry. Saturday afternoon
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mjnorte and z_darlight loved Björk – Hidden Place. Saturday afternoon
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mjnorte added Vespertine to mjnorte’s library. Saturday afternoon
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foxmouse added Björk – Undo to their Loved Tracks. Saturday afternoon
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arataeus, coolz_hyfc and kainirika loved Björk – Cocoon. Saturday morning
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rockingirl92 and BOBCATJIM loved Björk – Unison. Saturday morning
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rockingirl92, z_darlight, wildJoshy and 9 other people loved Björk – It's Not Up to You. Saturday morning
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