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Vespertine by Björk

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Hidden Place 5:29 262,116
2 Cocoon 4:28 161,514
3 It's Not Up To You 5:09 150,352
4 Undo 5:39 148,361
5 Pagan Poetry 5:15 293,765
6 Frosti 1:41 154,270
7 Aurora 4:40 150,318
8 An Echo A Stain 4:05 32,661
9 Sun In My Mouth 2:40 127,107
10 Heirloom 5:12 102,065
11 Harm Of Will 4:37 127,750
12 Unison 6:48 131,984
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About this album

Universal Music Portugal SA (2007) Released: 3 Dec 2007 12 tracks (55:43)
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.
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  • felipssucks

    From track 1 to 7 is the best part of this record to me ♥

    Wednesday morning

  • Axiemeister

    vv I mean, Vespertine is great, don't get me wrong, I haven't found paradise under my kitchen table like everyone else seems to. But saying Volta and Biophilia are atrocious? That's just alien to me. What's so bad about them?

    Saturday afternoon

  • flygandejakob

    This album is a freaking masterpiece always and forever.

    last week

  • lewi91

    v whatthefuckamireading.jpg by far her best, one of the best by any artist ever actually. volta and biophilia are atrocious

    last week

  • Axiemeister

    I really like this but for a Björk album this is SO overrated I can't even begin. It ties with Medúlla as her "least amazing" work. I'll never get what Vespertine has that keeps like thousands of people so completely enamored by it in detriment of underrated but more precious gems (Volta and Biophilia).

    19 days ago

  • okbabylol

    I can't stop listening to this album! Unison and Harm Of Will are amazing...

    19 days ago

  • lewi91

    v 2. This was her last decent contribution to music IMO. I can put on "Undo" and it's as magic as the first time I heard it years ago...

    20 days ago

  • SpiritOfYetaxa

    Bjork is one of those artists who has one work which outshines every other one but such a margin that it's ridiculous. This is her masterpiece

    20 days ago

  • llex

    прекрасен

    23 days ago

  • xstarstruckkkx

    I cannot like this album. Out of ALL of Bjorks albums. This album is not appealing to me at all!!! Besides "Pagan Poetry," I can honestly say I only like two other songs from this album: "Frosti," which is an instrumental and "Hidden Place." Sorry but "Vespertine" is not an album for me.

    last month

  • justmatornot

    still her best work, after eleven years.

    last month

  • xperfume

    her best in my opinion

    last month

  • Howll_

    Definitely her best album.

    March 2012

  • ChesterWhelks

    we have a recurring dream, everytime we lose our voices, we dream we swallow little lights, our mother and sons bake for us.

    March 2012

  • EricValeev

    ♥ it

    March 2012

  • gugzmoonmonster

    listen to this album while reading. it's magical.

    February 2012

  • Jhowkun

    I think that I'll need a time to get addicted to this one. It's an great album, awesome productions, but I didn't find this so addictive as Homogenic... not yet ^_^

    February 2012

  • mercercy

    My favorite album of hers, hands down.

    January 2012

  • tod123321

    Love this album, I think its her last great album everything shes done since blows imo.

    January 2012

  • peehsuxx

    I have an eargasm when she says "i love him, i love him, i love him, i love him" in Pagan Poetry

    January 2012
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