Break Up to Wake Up Music?
Listening to Vulnicura
this morning, I was thinking this is the music that has the broad sweep of a
film score, but of course that is only really opening track Stonemilker. The next Lionsong retains the orchestrations but
it engages more in electronica, and the lyrics are too intense for what would
be the much longer narrative of a movie. What does prevail are the gorgeous if
at times complex harmonies, and naturally the sound of Bjork’s vocal which is
always informed by that accent. Keen to hang on to my filmic referencing, there
is a dreamlike quality to these and the tracks that follow, third History of Touches set inside an
electronic theatre of sound and the storytelling a confessional performance.
These are candid songs, and beautiful songs as with the chamber music of Black Lake. There are more brooding
tones in Family, and the competing
voices create tension within its bleaker though still swelled musical
landscape. Apparently her 'breakup' album - the cover a literal reflection of this - I don’t think this is morning music, but I have started……
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