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VESPERTINE was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.

Bjork's first non-soundtrack album since HOMOGENIC is positively pastoral compared with that release's experimental electronic textures. Swathed in strings and laced with beautiful choral arrangements, VESPERTINE has more in common with SELMASONGS, echoing that DANCER IN THE DARK soundtrack album's meandering melody lines, while smoothing out and adding an ethereal sheen to the more angular approaches of the singer's previous work.

Here the idiosyncratic Icelander lets loose with her full range of vocal stylings, though even her most innocent, little-girl-lost persona can't hide her steely intelligence. The album-opening "Hidden Place" starts with foreboding electronic rhythms--it's about unspoken or unfulfilled desires, and it's simultaneously exotic-sounding and dripping with melancholy, a mood that persists until the gently cathartic "Undo," with its mantra-like line "It's not meant to be a strife/It's not meant to be a struggle uphill." Though VESPERTINE's textures might ostensibly seem smooth and seamless, beneath the surface Bjork's emotions run raw and exposed, as evidenced by the final naked outburst of "I love him" in the coda to "Pagan Poetry." VESPERTINE is Bjork's most mature, fully realized integration of her pastoral Icelandic roots and her contemporary electronica (electronic scamps Matmos are collaborators here) inclinations to date.

This DVD-Audio disc features 12 tracks such as "Hidden Place," "Cocoon," "Undo," "Aurora," "Sun in my Mouth," "Harm of Will" and much more!

Full Frame - 1.33

MLP 6-Channel - 96 kHz - 24 bit

MLP Stereo - 48 kHz - 16 bit

Dolby Digital 5.1

Engineers include: Jake Davies, Damian Taylor, Erik Gosh.

DVD Features:

Personnel: Bjork (vocals, programming); Caryl Thomas, Zeena Parkins (harp); Guy Sigsworth (celeste, Clavichord, programming); Jake Davies, Damian Taylor, Matthew Herbert, Matmos, Thomas Knak, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Marius De Vries, Martin Console (programming).

Producers: Bjork, Thomas Knak, Marius De Vries.

Region 0

Audio:

Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.106) - Ranked #16 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records".
Rolling Stone (1/03/02, p.118) - Ranked #4 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001".
Rolling Stone (9/13/01, pp.105-6) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The best solo record of her career...a particle beam as weightless as light but concentrated with direction....awash with strings and choirs...When she opens her mouth...you go in, swept up to a box seat inside her head..."
Spin (1/02, p.76) - Ranked #5 in Spin's "Albums of the Year 2001".
Q (9/01, p.109) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...an album which sounds like nothing else while also powerfully evoking the complex and emotional spirit of its creator....Not far from ideal."
Uncut (9/01, p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Extraordinarily intimate and tender....She uses her voice as well as she ever has, giving the moods light and shade..."
Alternative Press (2/02, p.64) - Ranked #3 in AP's "25 Best Albums of 2001".
Alternative Press (10/01, p.77) - 8 out of 10 - "...A smoldering heart of emotion and a true pop sensibility reveal themselves..."
The Wire (1/02, p.40) - Ranked #1 in Wire's "50 Records of the Year 2001".
The Wire (8/01, p.52) - "...A beautiful thing..."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/02, p.69) - Ranked #7 in Mojo's "Best [40] Albums of 2001".
Mojo (Publisher) (9/01, p.99) - "...A gorgeous reverie that lives up to its devotional title..."
NME (Magazine) (12/29/01, p.59) - Ranked #32 in NME's 50 "Albums Of the Year 2001".
NME (Magazine) (8/25/01, p.51) - 8 out of 10 - "...Enchanting splendor is the overriding rule....way, way off the beaten track..."

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Category Rock Albums, Electronica CDs, Rock, Rock/Pop, Alternative, Live Performances, DVD Audio
Label Elektra
Orig Year 2001
All Time Product Rank 39,094
CD Universe Part number 2023698
Discs 1
Release Date Feb 26, 2004
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
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1Hidden Place * See All 20 Bjork HIDDEN PLACE Lyrics4:08
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2Cocoon * See All 18 Bjork COCOON Lyrics4:31
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3It's Not up to You * See All 18 Bjork ITS NOT UP TO YOU Lyrics4:31
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4Undo * See All 16 Bjork UNDO Lyrics5:48
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5Pagan Poetry * See All 33 Bjork PAGAN POETRY Lyrics5:13 $1.29
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6Frosti * See All 15 Bjork FROSTI Lyrics1:23
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7Aurora * See All 17 Bjork AURORA Lyrics3:44
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8Echo a Stain * See All 15 Bjork ECHO A STAIN Lyrics4:04 $1.29
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9Sun in My Mouth * See All 10 Bjork SUN IN MY MOUTH Lyrics2:40 $1.29
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10Heirloom * See All 8 Bjork HEIRLOOM Lyrics5:12 $1.29
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11Harm Of Will * See All 16 Bjork HARM OF WILL Lyrics5:30
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12Unison * See All 15 Bjork UNISON Lyrics5:24
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Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars) 5 stars

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5 stars Una gran calidad de audio
Este dvd audio es buenisimo, es posible reproducirlo en un DVD-Video estandar. Pero para que escuches el magnifico sonido que tiene este DVA necesitas un DVA player o DVD-Video compatible con DVA. Lo recomiendo mucho.
Submitted by nobody (Mexico) Verified Buyer
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5 stars Bjork Rules.....
Sure this album is a little softer and more heart felt than "Homogenic", which is aslo a great album, but who cares Bjork rules!!!!!!!! I'm so stoked for "Medulla" I can't stand it. Buy all of Bjork's stuff, including The Sugarcubes albums, you will regret it not....Vive La Bjork....
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5 stars wow!!
This a u-turn from the excellent and dense album "Homogenic", this time Björk makes it ecstaticly intimate, delicate and tender, diaphanous and ethereal. If you already have "Selmasongs", you could feel the transition and you could have expected the style of Vespertine. The album is great, Björk is definitively the most creative female musician nowadays. Her voice is better than ever and it outstands beautifully in songs like "Cocoon" and "Aurora". The electronic beats, mixed with harp, musicboxes and beautiful choirs creates a kind of music like you've never heard. For me the best songs are "Hidden Place", "It's not up to you", "Aurora" and I think "Pagan Poetry" (excellent!! no words to describe it...!!) by itself makes the album worth buying.
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3 stars Good, but not as fresh as earlier albums.
I appreciate the intimacy of this album, but I do not think it has the blatant originality and as unique a sound as "Homogenic" and other of Bjork's earlier efforts. I'd say buy if you're a fan, but don't expect to hear any groundbreaking work.
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5 stars 4.7 stars
Just when you thought Bjork couldn't get any more creative, she does. Vespertine is an amazingly unique and sharp piece of work. 'Undo' is gorgeous. Instrumentation is wonderful and moving throughout, apart from the lapse in 'it's not up to you'.. If you are looking to buy Bjork's music you could divide her body of work in two categories: before Vespertine and after Homogenic. Both are good, but she has now definitely matured as an artist. She deserves much applause for abandoning rules of her usual savvy pop and going out on a limb to create such defined and multi-faceted work. This is definitely not 'homogenic'!
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