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Vespertine
Björk
Retail Price (not our price): $11.98
Release Date: 2001-08-28
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
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Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Ever since Björk's vital, effusive 1993 debut, her music has been increasingly intimate, gently private, and concerned with seclusion. It's typical then that Vespertine's first single is called "Hidden Place." The studious solitude is rewarding, though. Vespertine is a lush, gorgeous swell of midpace electronica, symphonic strings, and Björk's uniquely alien, spectral vocals. There are fantastical wonders here. "Cocoon" (another eulogy to withdrawal from the world) is delicate as a breath, Björk sounding too fragile to be flesh as she lauds "a beauty this immense." "Pagan Poetry" and "Aurora," likewise, are adrift in an enchanted reverie. When she chooses, she crafts killer tunes; "It's Not up to You" is as lovely as anything on Post. Yet, frequently, on such tracks as the yearning, glancing "Undo," Björk seems to be simply thinking aloud, reveling in this wildly rich and visceral music. She's reclaimed cutting-edge electronica, so often the province of geeks and technicians, for the poets and the passionate. Vespertine is a landmark, a revelation, and a truly fabulous achievement. --Ian Gittins

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) Love it except for that one song   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I love this album its beautiful. Except for the song "Harm of Will". The music in it is quite nice but the lyrics creep me out and annoy me. They creep me out because it sounds like shes talking about having an orgy and putting pretty music behind it. (..."she is under him.....sucking him...for it is I with her on knee."..ew) They annoy me because half of them don't make any sense! Like the line: "if there are 9 shes they are bought for me." Maybe shes talking about 9 whores to join their orgy? Still who says "9 shes"?? Thats so retarded. Why don't you buy 9 English lessons? Then she does songs (that I really love) like "Unison" which lyrically sound like the opposite. So whatever shes a freak but I highly recommend this album.

2) track after track of quiet noise   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I love Bjork for her fearless experimentation and liked all of her albums I own (such as Post, Medúlla and Homogenic)--until I made the mistake of buying this one. I was so excited to add another refreshingly strange CD to my music collection, but Vespertine isn't refreshingly strange. It's like Bjork took a really strong painkiller, got all loopy, decided to record an album and did so in about an hour. This isn't music. It's irritating, headache-inducing noise. Buy any other album by Bjork!

3) Close your eyes and listen to beauty   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
After Homogenic's emotional overdrive that was at times offensive to the ears (Pluto) comes Bjork's softest album to date, and it's serene and wonderful.This is not the kind of CD you listen to while driving. Put the MP3s on an iPod/Zune/Zen, plug the headphones in, close your eyes, and allow Bjork to enchant you.The first Bjork CD I ever listened to was Medulla and I became an instant fan, buying several of her older CDs at the same time. I actually overlooked Vespertine for a long time because, compared to her other work that's so outspoken and creative and wild, Vespertine is kind of tame.But one day during a power outage, I listened to Vespertine at night with no lights and I was whisked away to another world. Some songs are as gentle as a whisper (Cacoon) and others explode with energy (Pagen Poetry, Aurora), but all of them feel introverted and intimate. The end result is captivating. If Homogenic is a thunderous rainstorm, then Vespertine is a cool breath of air that makes your hairs stand on end.The reason why I overlooked this album for so long is because there are so many gentle, subtle sounds that I probably I didn't even hear when I first listened to it. Don't do anything while listening to this CD. Allow Bjork an hour of your time. Let the music flow through you and you will not be disappointed.

4) Beauty Given Sound   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Bjork's "Vespertine" is a wonder, a shiver of sound so nimble and perpetually fresh that one never tires of listening to it. It is a groundbreaking electronic masterpiece, each song perfectly crafted with Bjork's voice beautifully jarring out its core. At times so fragile and porcelain-like, as on "Cacoon," or haunting and intense like "Pagan Poetry," it is a sonic paradise that is both perfectly succinct and wonderfully ecclectic.

5) Vespertine, Bjork at her best!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I love this album! I'm from Indonesia, and this is the rarest bjork album here. It took me months to find this album, and i'm not dissapointed at all! Almost all the tracks here can be singles (except fot sun in my mouth and harm of will). A must have album of the decade.