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Vespertine by: Björk List Price: $7.98 CD-Charts Price: $6.99 You Save: $0.99 (12%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075596265324 Label: Elektra / Wea Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Elektra / Wea Release Date: August 28, 2001 Studio: Elektra / Wea Sales Rank: 4016 MPN: 62653 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: 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
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 Rating:  - Another all-time favoriteOne of the most beautiful Bjork albums. Sometimes an album represents a season, and this one is all about winter for me. Rating: - BJORK IN HER MOST SWEET MOMENT ON MUSIC JESUS I think no one could do any album-masterpiece like this one! Contains emotional songs , beautiful songs , songs that reminds you of nature , snow , etc.... In my opinion , the best 2 songs are : PAGAN POETRY and A STAIN .... :) they rock! The only weak moment of the album is when the INTERLUDE FROSTY is on , but the rest it's cool! All MUSIC-LOVERS must have Bjork's albums like this BUY IT! Rating:  - Walking in a Winter WonderlandIt's sixty degrees outside. Why is it sixty degrees outside? I live in Chicago for Christ's sake. It's January. It should be sixty degrees lower than it is. Although I suppose I shouldn't complain about not being miserable every time I leave my house. But something about listening to Bjork's Vespertine makes me feel like it SHOULD be cold, and snowing. Vespertine is as much a work of art as it is a force of nature, a call to the skies for snow, a summoning of a white blanket. This is not Bjork's best album. Homogenic will most likely never be ousted from that position. But it is certainly the second greatest, and the most consistently themed, a chilling representation of Winter. This album makes the season of death come to life. Songs are blanketed ... Read More: Rating:  - Boy oh Boy...Ive always loved Bjork and everything shes about, but this has to be the worst cd Ive ever heard of hers. It seems to have little direction and although I enjoy deep, dark depressing tunes, I would'nt listen to this cd unless I was actually killing myself. But again, that might just be me. Her other cds rock the casbah, this one doesn't! Hope you find some enjoyment out of it.... Rating: - Uniquely ArtisticThere is not much out there with this sound. It is certainly true that Bjork has a sound that cannot be categorized, and that is what I look for in unique music. This was my first Bjork album, and purchased at the recommendation of Amazon customers (as are many of my recent acquisition). The album provides an electronically contrived sound with influences as diverse as anything I've heard. The vocals are haunting and, if not beautiful, intriguing. This is art, not commercial music. |
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