Pagan Poetry
MTV in America wouldn’t show the video. Nick Knight filmed pearls being sewn into her skin.
Rhune
Vespertine
Björk made Vespertine to sound like being alone in the house.
She made it after acting in Dancer in the Dark, which she said she wouldn’t do again. Most of it is quiet: Zeena Parkins’s harp, celesta, music boxes, and beats Matmos made from small sounds. She expected people to hear it on computers, and chose instruments that stay clear through small speakers.
Tracks 12 · 56 minutes
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1
Hidden Place
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2
Cocoon
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3
It's Not Up To You
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4
Undo
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6
Frosti
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Aurora
The beat is footsteps in snow, recorded by Matmos.
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8
An Echo, A Stain
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Sun In My Mouth
The words are E. E. Cummings’s poem i will wade out.
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Heirloom
Built on an instrumental from 1998 by Console, a German electronic musician.
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Harm Of Will
The film director Harmony Korine wrote the words.
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12
Unison
