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[@ollietaro]

When Bjork discovered choirs that is her gift to the world

[@janrozec1474]

Vespertine is a MASTERPIECE from beginning to end.

[@jaimepe4765]

Heirloom has one of the cutest, most intimate lyrics (family wise). Drinking medicine prepared by her mom and son to heal her damaged vocal chords is something you won't hear about in other songs.

[@cristianovia]

that's my favorite one

[@abrahammerr1801]

You NEED to listen to her podcast! the Vespertine episode is magical and she explains a lot about her creative process and the sound design behind it.

[@slisersidekick1967]

what's the podcast called? sounds lovely

[@w.h.y.0061]

@@slisersidekick1967 sonic symbolism on spotify.

[@lorenlash9174]

You're one of the few reactors that seems to really seems appreciate the depth of Bjork's artistic expression. Love it!

[@Lau..]

3:14 Hidden place 🛡️ 9:10 Cocoon 🕷️🕸️ 13:32 it's not up to You☠️ 18:12 Undo🌦️ 22:30 Pagan poetry 📖🖋️ 25:48 Frosti❄️☃️ 27:04 Aurora🌬️🌨️ 31:20 A echo A stain🗣️ 34:53 Sun in my mouth☀️👄 37:40 Heirloom 🌈 41:28 Harm of Will👹 45:33 Unison❤️ The emojis are only for aesthetic ☠️

[@ARCHIEBRADLEYSELFTAPES]

Thank u so much for this list!!!

[@allenrpn]

This album is perfect ! Feels like winter ❄️ it’s a journey , walking in the frozen tundra looking for a warm shelter , amazing feeling , heavenly , celestial , loving among other things , still I believe UNISON is her best song ever .

[@allenrpn]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4GoqpWgnLqdbLc everyone should watch this live performance of UNISON, so touching and powerful

[@javier_govi]

There’s a song that she added in her Greatest Hits album. It is called It’s In Our Hands. She sang it during her Vespertine tour. You might like to check it out. It is gorgeous.

[@anakin8132]

i think its so interesting u correlated the sound in It’s Not Up To You with a stomach grumbling sound 😭 i always thought it was the sound of coffee brewing!

[@jaimepe4765]

I knew Bjork since I was a child because of the Big Time Sensuality video clip that was popular in Colombian music programs, but the song that made me fall in in love with Bjork was Hidden Place, and that open this world to me. Vespertine is, after all these years, my favorite album, something so different from my tropical existence.

[@adamfatima3003]

Her album Vulnicura is beautiful and tragic and is about the demise of this same relationship.

[@jaimepe4765]

Vespertine and Vulnicura are so connected! I love them both.

[@solfacture905]

This is her “domestic/motherhood” album… it’s ambiguous about if she’s singing about a lover or her child in her womb/ or her newborn… her live performance of this barefoot in the sainte chapelle church in Paris was unbelievable… she didn’t use a mic

[@solfacture905]

And the beats are all by Matmos who samples kitchen cutlery tapping and shoes walking in snow etc.. a vast library of domestic/intimate sounds

[@syntheticsilkwood2206]

@@solfacture905 no they're not get your facts right björk made 80% of the microbeats And matmos only added some percussion in the end when the songs were already completed Björk deserves the credit I'm so sick of ppl ignoring that

[@solfacture905]

@@syntheticsilkwood2206 I was recalling the press from the time (20 years later…), but yes youre right she said “I did 80% of the beats on Vespertine and it took me three years to work on that album, because it was all microbeats - it was like doing a huge embroidery piece. Matmos came in the last two weeks and added percussion on top of the songs, but they didn't do any of the main parts, and they are credited everywhere as having done the whole album.” She’s so gracious about the wonderful collaborations she has and the sort of symbiosis with say Marc bell, Arca, Anoni… each in their own way.. but I guess the Matmos collab was aggressively misconstrued: “[Matmos'] Drew [Daniel] is a close friend of mine, and in every single interview he did, he corrected it. And they don't even listen to him. It really is strange” -Björk to Pitchfork, 2015

[@syntheticsilkwood2206]

@@solfacture905 ok I thought they have the whole credit to matmos but I'm glad to hear that he corrected the people Respect for him and thanks to you for giving me the information Edit: it's just how you said that the beats were all done by him so sorry I misinterpreted it

[@S_E_R_]

She didn't have her daughter until a year after the album so the album wouldn't have been about that

[@madjuicebox_x5296]

You should do Biophilia and Vulnicura!! I think they are different sides of Bjork, My favorites are Crystalline and Family respectively

[@markstuartwakeley]

One of greatest albums of the last 20 years.

[@syntheticsilkwood2206]

Of all time*

[@sebastian_reu9220]

A perfect winter album! I am so happy that you discover her music! You will love love love Vulnicura! ;)

[@medievalphantom]

This is my favorite Björk album 🥹

[@purplefaced_]

absolutely should do vulnicura next its my absolute favorite and if you like her strings, youre in LUCK.

[@sebastian_reu9220]

So true!

[@sam_bamalam]

YES! Especially coming from Vespertine, the themes are great for a direct comparison.

[@charlieinslidell]

This album is the personification of polyphonic soundscapes to capture fantastical intimacy.

[@mafurock33]

FYI - Sun in My Mouth lyrics are from a poem by e e cummings

[@anaelhonings8683]

yes, great idea to listen to her Sonic Symbolism podcast! Even as an obsessive fan for the past 25 years, I learned a lot of stuff I didn't expect 🙂 I can't wait for your Medulla review!!!

[@massimilianopraticelli8986]

Yes, it actually is a falling in love album. Since you have listened to this one, you might be interested in Vulnicura, which in a sense is the opposite side of Vespertine. Also, if you're going to listen to her podcast, "Sonic Symbolism", I recommend that you listen to the albums beforehand. Like, if now you have only listened to Homogenic, Vespertine (and Fossora). Just listen to the episodes where she talks about those albums. I think listening to the podcast before even listening to the album itself can ruin the experience. But that's just my suggestion, this is up to you.

[@disuba]

Omg I just figured out that Heirloom is about a dream where her mother and son pour oil into her throat to pass on a healing heirloom. And Ancestress, that is about her mother's death, is all about biological and biographical and intergenerational heirlooms passing on to her as the daughter, and this time her son is singing alongside her and they are pouring oil into her mother as a sacred ritual for her passing. It's like a very deeply sad and beautiful Heirloom part 2.

[@imeowmeow4868]

An Echo A Stain took a while to grow on me but now it is my favorite!!!! so intense.

[@jaimepe4765]

My man, you gotta review her video clips one by one!!

[@robertkowalski1176]

Love the album and the reaction. Please go chronologically from here. Medulla should be next.

[@Maybeahh]

I just discovered your channel and I am totally on board. Like, I love you reactions (Björk is one of my fav artists of all time) and I wish you could react to her whole discography, but that might be a bit too much... (I know!) Also, your thoughts, for a first impression, are so on point. Some of these songs I've heard hundreds of times, but your interpretation in the moment just opened their meanings to a whole different dimension for me. Thank you very much, you're gorge!

[@a.e.rivera-weaver8175]

I lived in midtown Manhattan when 9/11 happened and this album came out right before and I would walk around the empty city listening to this. And it has forever been apart of the memory of that time. The boy in these songs was the trade center. And to this day it brings me back....

[@ingerfie291]

the lyrics of Sun in my mouth is actually a poem by EE. Cummings called Crepuscule, which se adapted into the song:)

[@AlonsoTipacti]

Ready for the crying

[@kylelenci]

Vulnicura, Volta & Medulla are my other favorites. Can’t wait for you to react to them. Vulnicura I truly believe is what she should be remembered for.

[@lucasoaks4521]

The lyrics on Sun In My Mouth are a poem from E. E. Cummings.

[@czbaterka]

Medula is my favorite, nurturing, womanhood,voice,vocals vs body. ✨✨✨

[@cristianovia]

yeah Medulla is special as well as Biophilia

[@willjones4825]

Gosh you make me excited about everything you react to

[@angusuranus]

thank you luscent, i really enjoyed the video🍊🧄🍒

[@imeowmeow4868]

I love this album so much!! Just so you know there is a documentary about the making of this album!

[@janciepants]

I used to listen to this to fall asleep all the time! ❤🎶

[@brudererdmanchen5661]

Luscent I love you❤ You are such an interesting and intelligent man. Pure inspiration🤩

[@got2bjosh]

About time! Feels like forever since the last Bjork reaction. Had to get my fix elsewhere, but when watching others I still think about your readings of those same albums. What would Luscent think? 50:32 This is the key to Bjork.

[@igorknown8608]

Lovely video. You should watch her performing this live in Alexandra Palace on dvd - a lot we think is production is in fact her singing and its a miracle to behold ( also this is an ASMR album designed for laptop speakers and is interesting to see how its put in an opera house with a symphonic orchestra and a live choir etc 😳

[@ARCHIEBRADLEYSELFTAPES]

I love ur reactions so much! Would love to hear your thoughts on my personal favourite björk album, utopia!

[@sebastian_reu9220]

Masterpiece 🤭❤️

[@barneyhubble8009]

Its hard to say best album its so hard to pick but yes its one of her best. If not her best (depending on mood). Fking magic. I encourage you to watch the recording /dvd of it at the Opera house.

[@pavelmaryin5664]

"Heirloom" is one of a few Bjork's songs which she wrote using earlier released instrumental by other musician - in that particular case "Crabcraft" by Console AKA Martin Gretschmann of the German band The Notwist kzbin.info/www/bejne/fafYmJ95ZZ2Ghs0 Check Console's 1998 album "Rocket In The Pocket" if you like it. "Undo" also based on previously released track by Opiate/Thomas Knak called "1% In 2/3 Speed" but with many additional arragement kzbin.info/www/bejne/apXPpIOvpt6tba8

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Watch her performance of this album at Royal Opera house, incredible

[@davemizore9166]

Amazing reaction!

[@benmarshall3941]

I doubt you'll read this since you posted this about a year ago, but I have a couple of answers/anecdotes based on your reactions! When I was first researching about the production of this album, I found two very interesting details that helped me realize the production process and overall sonic vision for this album. First off, you mentioned it during your reaction of 'Cocoon' about electronic sounds being used as drums/beats, 'Undo' actually samples the song: '1% in 2/3 speed' by Opiate. This track is pretty incredible because it uses soundscape sampling of general office sounds heard in the late 90's/early 2000's. All of those little electronic microbeats are "organic" samples coming from vintage office electronics. (ie. printers, fax machines, paper shredders etc.) Secondly, you also wondered about the instrument at the end of 'It's Not Up To You'. During the early production for this album, Bjork locked herself away in Iceland and spent quite a long time crafting her own music boxes which are featured throughout this album, including the outro to 'It's Not Up To You' and throughout 'Pagan Poetry' and 'Frosti'. Love your reviews, keep it up!

[@Luscent]

so cool to hear how she did Cocoon cos i still plan to steal that idea for a song hahaha

[@lucasoaks4521]

Heirloom samples a song by Console. Maybe that's why it feels different from the rest of the album.

[@owlwingisme]

you should react to all of her discography! since everyone is suggesting different albums, might as well do all of them lol

[@matiaspalma964]

omg i was just listening to this album

[@carlosalarcon5839]

My fav album of all times ❤

[@shanelogan630]

Harm of will is hard to understand but beautiful and tragic, as a Troubadour is generally in medieval terms a high class player so to speak, and it’s about a girl who falls in love with a man, who treats her as if she is the best thing in the world, even placing her on top of his family tree in her mind, and she’s flattered by how he puts her above all others, but after having given herself to him, she realizes she was nothing but a conquest for him, and secret at that, as he leaves once he’s had his sex with her, and makes her remain quiet about it as he doesn’t want his reputation being sullied, while she is the one left with a broken heart.

[@gianfrezzotti4057]

i love your reacts, u should react to Utopia by björk it's my personal love letter, love from argentina! ❤

[@figgefrack]

Radiohead is the best band of all time and Björk is the best artist of all time

[@amyf7713]

I recommend Allie X (specifically her first 2 albums, "Collxtion", and "Collxtion II"). I think you'd really love her work. Edit: I'm loving your reactions to Björk's albums, btw. She's my favorite female artist, and it's so cool to share the experience of her music with you in your reactions.

[@hennerz93]

Interesting how you automatically associate glitchiness with negative emotions

[@tristramcoffin926]

Are you already familiar with Mew? I would love to get from you a reaction to at least the first half of And The Glass Handed Kites. It is a song suite. All seven tracks run together.

[@Travelinmatt1976]

When my wife and I got married if we had a daughter we planned on naming her Aurora

[@DerGeek]

Matmos, French electronic duo.

[@binkytube]

Vocal fryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy is an affectation.

[@naa-iemahlve1994]

emails i can’t send - Sabrina Carpenter REACTION

[@jacobhanna]

Now go for vulnicura!!

[@jessicabrum9200]

Now listen again, since you know how it ends with vulnicura :D

[@Sergio6077]

I'm afraid that this cute guy will die hearing Utopia 😂

[@Posisinia]

Why did I think that you had already reacted to this album?

[@imeowmeow4868]

Same .

[@viviana2263]

I hope you read my comment 🤗I met bjork with vespertine! Since then i fell in love of her art. And let me tell you, i met vespertine THROUGH A MEXICAN EXPERIMENTAL ARTIST CALL JUAN SON! Through his album MERMAID SASHIMI. Please listen his album is from another world. I read in some interview of juan son that he mentioned bjork as his inspiration and some musical critic wrote that Mermaid sashimi was like a little brother of vespertine from bjork.

[@janciepants]

Did I miss Frosti? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@panchiolarranaga1616]

A W E S O M E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jaimepe4765]

Unison is actually rumored to be about Lard Von Trier!

[@shenandoah7875]

I am not unconvinced that Bjork isn’t some kind of elf or witch. Her music casts a spell on me.

[@gabby127_]

Vulnicura will break you after listening to Vespertine

[@tvduete6954]

if you don't do vulnicura my life isn't complete