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Vulnicura
is the eighth studio album from Icelandic artist
Björk
.
Vulnicura
was written, produced and recorded in collaboration with Venezuelan producer
Arca
and British musician
The Haxan Cloak
. Of the album's nine tracks, six are written by
Björk
with
two co-written with
Arca
and one co-written with
Spaces
. Six songs are produced by
Björk and Arca
, one by
Björk, Arca and The Haxan Cloak
and two by
Björk
. All string arrangements are by
Björk
. The album was mixed by
The Haxan Cloak
, except two songs mixed by
The Haxan Cloak and Chris Elms
, and
mastered by Mandy Parnell
.
Vulnicura
is
Björk's
first release since the 2011 album/multimedia project
Biophilia
.
"I guess I found in my lap one year into writing it a complete heartbreak album. Kinda surprised how thoroughly I had documented this in pretty much accurate emotional chronology...like 3 songs before a break up and three after. So the anthropologist in me sneaked in and I decided to share them as such. First I was worried it would be too self indulgent but then I felt it might make it even more universal. And hopefully the songs could be a help, a crutch to others and prove how biological this process is: the wound and the healing of the wound. Psychologically and physically. It has a stubborn clock attached to it.
"And then a magic thing happened to me: as I lost one thing something else entered. Alejandro contacted me late summer 2013 and was interested in working with me. It was perfect timing. To make beats to the songs would have taken me 3 years (like on Vespertine) but this enchanted Arca would visit me repeatedly and only few months later we had a whole album! It is one of the most enjoyable collaborations I have had!
"I then went ahead and wrote string and choir arrangements and recorded them in Iceland and whom else to lure into singing with me my worship-of-love-song "Atom Dance" than my goddess of love: Antony? Towards the end of the album I started looking around for a mixing engineer and was introduced by a mutual friend of ours, Robin Carolan to the Haxan Cloak. He mixed the album and also made a beat for one half of "Family." Together with Chris Elms the engineer we kinda formed a band during the mixing process and this is the album we made!" -
Björk
Bjork
Vulnicura
Track Listing:
LP1
1. Stonemilker
2. Lionsong
3. History of Touches
4. Black Lake
5. Family
LP2
1. Notget
2. Atom Dance
3. Mouth Mantra
4. Quicksand