Songwriter Reacts to VESPERTINE ~ BJÖRK Full Album! 

When Bjork discovered choirs that is her gift to the world

Vespertine is a MASTERPIECE from beginning to end.

Heirloom has one of the cutest, most intimate lyrics (family wise). Drinking medicine prepared by her mom and son to heal her damaged vocal chords is something you won't hear about in other songs.

3:14 Hidden place 🛡️ 9:10 Cocoon 🕷️🕸️ 13:32 it's not up to You☠️ 18:12 Undo🌦️ 22:30 Pagan poetry 📖🖋️ 25:48 Frosti❄️☃️ 27:04 Aurora🌬️🌨️ 31:20 A echo A stain🗣️ 34:53 Sun in my mouth☀️👄 37:40 Heirloom 🌈 41:28 Harm of Will👹 45:33 Unison❤️ The emojis are only for aesthetic ☠️

This album is perfect ! Feels like winter ❄️ it’s a journey , walking in the frozen tundra looking for a warm shelter , amazing feeling , heavenly , celestial , loving among other things , still I believe UNISON is her best song ever .

You're one of the few reactors that seems to really seems appreciate the depth of Bjork's artistic expression. Love it!

You NEED to listen to her podcast! the Vespertine episode is magical and she explains a lot about her creative process and the sound design behind it.

There’s a song that she added in her Greatest Hits album. It is called It’s In Our Hands. She sang it during her Vespertine tour. You might like to check it out. It is gorgeous.

i think its so interesting u correlated the sound in It’s Not Up To You with a stomach grumbling sound 😭 i always thought it was the sound of coffee brewing!

Her album Vulnicura is beautiful and tragic and is about the demise of this same relationship.

One of greatest albums of the last 20 years.

You should do Biophilia and Vulnicura!! I think they are different sides of Bjork, My favorites are Crystalline and Family respectively

I knew Bjork since I was a child because of the Big Time Sensuality video clip that was popular in Colombian music programs, but the song that made me fall in in love with Bjork was Hidden Place, and that open this world to me. Vespertine is, after all these years, my favorite album, something so different from my tropical existence.

This album is the personification of polyphonic soundscapes to capture fantastical intimacy.

This is my favorite Björk album 🥹

absolutely should do vulnicura next its my absolute favorite and if you like her strings, youre in LUCK.

This is her “domestic/motherhood” album… it’s ambiguous about if she’s singing about a lover or her child in her womb/ or her newborn… her live performance of this barefoot in the sainte chapelle church in Paris was unbelievable… she didn’t use a mic

FYI - Sun in My Mouth lyrics are from a poem by e e cummings

A perfect winter album! I am so happy that you discover her music! You will love love love Vulnicura! ;)

My man, you gotta review her video clips one by one!!

An Echo A Stain took a while to grow on me but now it is my favorite!!!! so intense.

Omg I just figured out that Heirloom is about a dream where her mother and son pour oil into her throat to pass on a healing heirloom. And Ancestress, that is about her mother's death, is all about biological and biographical and intergenerational heirlooms passing on to her as the daughter, and this time her son is singing alongside her and they are pouring oil into her mother as a sacred ritual for her passing. It's like a very deeply sad and beautiful Heirloom part 2.

Yes, it actually is a falling in love album. Since you have listened to this one, you might be interested in Vulnicura, which in a sense is the opposite side of Vespertine. Also, if you're going to listen to her podcast, "Sonic Symbolism", I recommend that you listen to the albums beforehand. Like, if now you have only listened to Homogenic, Vespertine (and Fossora). Just listen to the episodes where she talks about those albums. I think listening to the podcast before even listening to the album itself can ruin the experience. But that's just my suggestion, this is up to you.

yes, great idea to listen to her Sonic Symbolism podcast! Even as an obsessive fan for the past 25 years, I learned a lot of stuff I didn't expect 🙂 I can't wait for your Medulla review!!!

Gosh you make me excited about everything you react to

thank you luscent, i really enjoyed the video🍊🧄🍒

I just discovered your channel and I am totally on board. Like, I love you reactions (Björk is one of my fav artists of all time) and I wish you could react to her whole discography, but that might be a bit too much... (I know!) Also, your thoughts, for a first impression, are so on point. Some of these songs I've heard hundreds of times, but your interpretation in the moment just opened their meanings to a whole different dimension for me. Thank you very much, you're gorge!

The lyrics on Sun In My Mouth are a poem from E. E. Cummings.

I used to listen to this to fall asleep all the time! ❤🎶

Amazing reaction!

Love the album and the reaction. Please go chronologically from here. Medulla should be next.

Medula is my favorite, nurturing, womanhood,voice,vocals vs body. ✨✨✨

I love this album so much!! Just so you know there is a documentary about the making of this album!

the lyrics of Sun in my mouth is actually a poem by EE. Cummings called Crepuscule, which se adapted into the song:)

Vulnicura, Volta & Medulla are my other favorites. Can’t wait for you to react to them. Vulnicura I truly believe is what she should be remembered for.

Luscent I love you❤ You are such an interesting and intelligent man. Pure inspiration🤩

omg i was just listening to this album

My fav album of all times ❤

Lovely video. You should watch her performing this live in Alexandra Palace on dvd - a lot we think is production is in fact her singing and its a miracle to behold ( also this is an ASMR album designed for laptop speakers and is interesting to see how its put in an opera house with a symphonic orchestra and a live choir etc 😳

Ready for the crying

Watch her performance of this album at Royal Opera house, incredible

I lived in midtown Manhattan when 9/11 happened and this album came out right before and I would walk around the empty city listening to this. And it has forever been apart of the memory of that time. The boy in these songs was the trade center. And to this day it brings me back....

About time! Feels like forever since the last Bjork reaction. Had to get my fix elsewhere, but when watching others I still think about your readings of those same albums. What would Luscent think? 50:32 This is the key to Bjork.

you should react to all of her discography! since everyone is suggesting different albums, might as well do all of them lol

I love ur reactions so much! Would love to hear your thoughts on my personal favourite björk album, utopia!

"Heirloom" is one of a few Bjork's songs which she wrote using earlier released instrumental by other musician - in that particular case "Crabcraft" by Console AKA Martin Gretschmann of the German band The Notwist ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GvuglC08SPk.html Check Console's 1998 album "Rocket In The Pocket" if you like it. "Undo" also based on previously released track by Opiate/Thomas Knak called "1% In 2/3 Speed" but with many additional arragement ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4dlsPyqyz7M.html

Heirloom samples a song by Console. Maybe that's why it feels different from the rest of the album.

I doubt you'll read this since you posted this about a year ago, but I have a couple of answers/anecdotes based on your reactions! When I was first researching about the production of this album, I found two very interesting details that helped me realize the production process and overall sonic vision for this album. First off, you mentioned it during your reaction of 'Cocoon' about electronic sounds being used as drums/beats, 'Undo' actually samples the song: '1% in 2/3 speed' by Opiate. This track is pretty incredible because it uses soundscape sampling of general office sounds heard in the late 90's/early 2000's. All of those little electronic microbeats are "organic" samples coming from vintage office electronics. (ie. printers, fax machines, paper shredders etc.) Secondly, you also wondered about the instrument at the end of 'It's Not Up To You'. During the early production for this album, Bjork locked herself away in Iceland and spent quite a long time crafting her own music boxes which are featured throughout this album, including the outro to 'It's Not Up To You' and throughout 'Pagan Poetry' and 'Frosti'. Love your reviews, keep it up!

Harm of will is hard to understand but beautiful and tragic, as a Troubadour is generally in medieval terms a high class player so to speak, and it’s about a girl who falls in love with a man, who treats her as if she is the best thing in the world, even placing her on top of his family tree in her mind, and she’s flattered by how he puts her above all others, but after having given herself to him, she realizes she was nothing but a conquest for him, and secret at that, as he leaves once he’s had his sex with her, and makes her remain quiet about it as he doesn’t want his reputation being sullied, while she is the one left with a broken heart.

i love your reacts, u should react to Utopia by björk it's my personal love letter, love from argentina! ❤

I recommend Allie X (specifically her first 2 albums, "Collxtion", and "Collxtion II"). I think you'd really love her work. Edit: I'm loving your reactions to Björk's albums, btw. She's my favorite female artist, and it's so cool to share the experience of her music with you in your reactions.

Are you already familiar with Mew? I would love to get from you a reaction to at least the first half of And The Glass Handed Kites. It is a song suite. All seven tracks run together.

Vocal fryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy is an affectation.

Now go for vulnicura!!

Interesting how you automatically associate glitchiness with negative emotions

emails i can’t send - Sabrina Carpenter REACTION

Matmos, French electronic duo.

When my wife and I got married if we had a daughter we planned on naming her Aurora

Now listen again, since you know how it ends with vulnicura :D

I hope you read my comment 🤗I met bjork with vespertine! Since then i fell in love of her art. And let me tell you, i met vespertine THROUGH A MEXICAN EXPERIMENTAL ARTIST CALL JUAN SON! Through his album MERMAID SASHIMI. Please listen his album is from another world. I read in some interview of juan son that he mentioned bjork as his inspiration and some musical critic wrote that Mermaid sashimi was like a little brother of vespertine from bjork.

Radiohead is the best band of all time and Björk is the best artist of all time

I'm afraid that this cute guy will die hearing Utopia 😂

Any interest in reviewing golden hour by jvke?

Why did I think that you had already reacted to this album?

Unison is actually rumored to be about Lard Von Trier!

A W E S O M E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did I miss Frosti? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Vulnicura will break you after listening to Vespertine

I am not unconvinced that Bjork isn’t some kind of elf or witch. Her music casts a spell on me.

if you don't do vulnicura my life isn't complete