Vespertine

Vespertine is the fourth studio album by Icelandic singer Björk. It was released on 27 August 2001.

History

Vespertine ( dt, evening ) is regarded as Björk's most experimental album to date and introvertiertestes. The singer himself called it, mutatis mutandis, as their " Winter Album ".

The musical base of the plate is electronic, but it come in a couple of tracks and acoustic instruments are used. A celesta is used in three pieces and played by Guy Sigsworth. The harp on six tracks is played by Caryl Thomas and Zeena Parkins.

The title Heirloom based on the instrumental piece Crabcraft of Weilheim electric Artist Console. Part of the text for Sun in my Mouth comes from the poem " Impressions" by EE Cummings.

The album was recorded in various studios in New York as well as in Spain and Iceland.

Title list

Reception

Heather Phares of Allmusic assigns four and a half stars out of five. In your opinion, sound the new features compared to the previous works " familiar and tricky " ( " intimate and intricate "), while the album " a tribute to peace and silence" ( " singing the praises of peace and quiet" ) was.

Ryan Schreiber of Pitchfork Media also missed the innovations that distinguished the previous albums and awards 7.2 points ". While undeniably beautiful, Vespertine fails to give electronic music the forward push it received on Björk 's albums Preceding " ( "Though undeniably beautiful, creates Vespertine not to give electronic music this forward thrust, which she received by Björk's previous albums. " )

The magazine Wire is one Vespertine to the top 50 music albums of 2001.

Singles

As singles following tracks on the album were released:

• Hidden Place (8/ 01)
• Pagan Poetry (11/ 01)
• Cocoon (03 /02)