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Vulnicura [Bonus Track] by Björk (CD, 2015)

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Title: Vulnicura. Edition: Album Digipak. Featuring the single 'Stonemilker' the album debuted at #11 in the UK Albums Chart. Format: CD. Missing Information?. 4: Black Lake. 3: History of Touches. 2: Lionsong.

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Record Label
One Little Indian
UPC
5016958998622
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10050181951

Product Key Features

Artist
Björk
Format
CD
Release Year
2015
Release Title
Vulnicura [Bonus Track]
Run Time
58 Mins 37 Seconds
Genre
Electronic

Additional Product Features

Distribution
Relativity (Label)
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Additional information
Personnel: U Strings (strings). Audio Mixer: The Haxan Cloak. Illustrator: Andrew Thomas Huang. Photographers: Vinoodh Matadin; Inez . Never one to do things timidly, with Vulnicura Björk delivers a breakup album that isn't just sad -- it throws listeners into the total devastation of heartbreak. Starting with the album cover's wound/vulva imagery, she explores the tightly linked emotional and physical pain the end of a relationship brings with an intensity that has been missing from her music for too long. As expertly as she wedded feelings and concepts on Medúlla, Volta, and especially Biophilia, hearing her sing directly about her emotions is a galvanizing reminder of just how good she is at it. For the first time in a long time, the conceptual framework of a Björk album feels like it's in service of feelings she must express, and as she traces the before, during, and after of a breakup, she links Vulnicura to the most emotionally bare parts of her discography. The clearest connection is to Homogenic's electro-orchestral drama, which she updates on "Stonemilker." The way Björk sings "emotional needs" echoes "Joga"'s "emotional landscapes" and prepares listeners for the state of emergency that makes up the rest of the album. On "History of Touches," she inverts the hushed intimacy of Vespertine (the album that celebrated the beginning of her relationship with artist Matthew Barney, just as this one chronicles its end) with choppy synth-strings that convey the fractured sensuality of being physically close and emotionally worlds apart. However, Vulnicura's songs are often longer and more deconstructed than either of those albums, and the involvement of co-producers Arca and Haxan Cloak (who also handled most of the mixing) ensures that this is some of Björk's darkest music. "Lionsong" brilliantly captures the nauseating anxiety of an uncertain relationship, its warped harmonies and teetering strings evoking a high-stakes game of "he loves me, he loves me not." Even though Björk crawls out of the abyss on the album's final third, which culminates with the relatively hopeful "Quicksand," Vulnicura's agonizing middle section is its crowning achievement and crucible. The ten-minute "Black Lake" allows Björk the space to let everything unravel, and as the strings drone and the beats tower and tumble, her unvarnished lyrics ("You have nothing to give/Your heart is hollow") perfectly distill the moments of purging and clarity that eventually point the way out of heartache. Here and on "Family," where Haxan Cloak's claustrophobic production makes Björk's anguish (the way she sings "sorrow" contains multitudes) all the more wrenching, the purity of her expression is both highly personal and universal. Vulnicura honors her pain and the necessary path through and away from loss with some of her bravest, most challenging, and most engaging music. ~ Heather Phares
Reviews
Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "VULNICURA is a unified set of nine dark, swarming, melodically distended songs....This may be the most heart-rending music she's ever made." Spin - "[W]hat a welcome surprise that VULNICURA, her ninth album, is not just her most focused work in more than a decade, but her first in a while aimed more at the heart than the head." Entertainment Weekly - "[A] devastating chronicle of the demise of her marriage..." Magnet - "Bleak and cold, spacious and smothering, VULNICURA has a tactile shroud that you can almost touch..." NME (Magazine) - "Masterful string arrangements by Björk express matters of the heart with the same candour as the words, while Venezuelan producer Arca's fractured, difficult beats -- often in uncommon time signatures -- reflect the disruption to Björk's real-life rhythm." Paste (magazine) - "Complexity and metaphors reign on VULNICURA. The stark, dueling musical styles invoke a rare intricacy and intimacy that seem to represent her mixed emotions of fear, anger, depression and sadness." Clash (Magazine) - "Her voice is hers alone -- and it shall always remain so, unequivocally unique."
Engineer
Bart Migal; Chris Elms; Frank Arthur Blondahl Cassata
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo

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