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









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Disc 1:

1. Hidden Place
2. Cocoon
3. It's Not Up To You
4. Undo
5. Pagan Poetry
6. Frosti
7. Aurora
8. An Echo A Stain
9. Sun In My Mouth
10. Heirloom
11. Harm Of Will
12. Unison

Rating: - Another all-time favorite
One of the most beautiful Bjork albums. Sometimes an album represents a season, and this one is all about winter for me.

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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!

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Rating: - Walking in a Winter Wonderland
It'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 in steady, warm, electronic beats and subsequently dressed up in soaring vocal harmonies and strings. Hidden Place kicks things off with a call to the unknown, represented by a mysterious melody that climbs and gently cascades back down a choral harmony. It's Not Up To You is similarly immediate but this time more happy, also given string treatment in addition to well placed harp glissandos. As with most Bjork albums, the best songs are utterly unstoppable. Hidden Place, It's Not Up To You, Pagan Poetry, and Aurora all deserve places on any Best of Bjork compilation yet to be released, as they all either match or trump anything on Post in terms of poppy fun. But the fun hardly stops there. There are several other fun songs, namely Frosti, Crabcraft, and Sun In My Mouth, all worth getting to know on their own chilly and beautiful terms. Also like most Bjork albums, good and bad, Vespertine has several clunkers and is prone to being uninteresting. Particularly, Cocoon and Undo have uninspired melodies that cannot be saved simply by being dressed up. In this way, Vespertine is far from the best it could be, but all things considered, it is a very pretty album that is to be respected as an album that suceeds on its own terms and creates lush, sophisticated styles that make it completely memorable.

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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....

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Rating: - Uniquely Artistic
There 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.