The urgent Mouth Mantra has a quick glitch-inspired beat. While Vulnicura uses strings as it’s crutch to support the sadness of Bjork’s words, there are moments where the beats are allowed to take control. While calling Black Lake a diss track might be slightly off base, it is not hard to pick up the anger in her voice layered beneath the wave of heartbreak emotion she expels across the song. On the albums centerpiece, the ten minute Black Lake, Bjork sings “You fear my limitless emotions/I am bored of your apocalyptic obsessions/Did I love you too much.” This is scorned lover role that even the listener feels uncomfortable hearing Bjork play. Family for example focuses on Bjork’s personal disillousionment after her family triangle between mother-father-child was severed. Heartbreak and loneliness are about the most standard topics in pop, but Bjork takes these themes and breaks them down into poetic words that encompass so much feeling without the clichés. Lyrically the album deals with a pretty familiar theme.
This sense of sprawl is a running theme throughout Vulnicura, with all but two of the nine tracks extending well over six minutes in length, each utilizing a perfect marriage of strings and beats, as provided by the Venezuelan newcomer, Arca (notable for his work with FKA twigs and Kanye West, as well has his excellent debut album, Xen), all to varying degrees across this collection of songs. But while Joga took this impeccable style that compliments Bjork’s iconic voice so well and condensed it into an classic pop song structure, Stonemilker unravels this formula and flows boundless in a cathartic release, setting the tone for the rest of the album. The expertly crafted string arrangements swim on top of a subtly constructed beat, not sounding far off from the Homogenic gem, Joga. That much becomes abundantly clear just two minutes into Stonemilker, the sprawling, seven-minute opener to Vulnicura.
She was hurt really bad once, and she has a lot to say about it. Review Summary: If Homogenic and Vespertine had a baby.ījork was hurt.
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