Bjork Full Album

[Jesper Sahu]

Thediscography of Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjrk consists of eleven studio albums, two soundtrack albums, one compilation album, six remix albums, seven live albums, four box sets, three collaboration albums, forty-five singles, ten promotional singles and eight remixes series.

Bjrk started her career after a recording of her rendition of Tina Charles' 1976 song "I Love to Love" became popular on Icelandic radio. Her first eponymous solo release, considered juvenilia, was released under Flkinn label in 1977. Thereafter, Bjrk ventured into bands, singing as the lead vocalist of groups like Tappi Tkarrass, Kukl, the Elgar Sisters and, most notably, the Sugarcubes. In 1990 she released Gling-Gl alongside Tr Gumundar Inglfssonar, a cover album of jazz standards.

Bjrk released her first adult solo studio album, titled Debut, in 1993, under One Little Indian Records. A sleeper hit in United Kingdom, the record eventually hit the top three in the Official Charts Company and received platinum certifications from BPI, RIAA and ARIA. The album included the singer's debut single "Human Behaviour", which gained chart success on Billboard Alternative and Dance charts. The album was later reissued to include the third single "Play Dead", taken from the soundtrack of The Young Americans, which became her first top 20 single on BPI charts. Subsequent singles "Big Time Sensuality" and "Violently Happy" also obtained moderate chart success and recurrent rotation on MTV. Her second album, Post, was released in June 1995, and peaked at number two in the UK and was certified platinum by BPI and RIAA. The album spawned three top 10 singles in the UK, including "Army of Me", "Hyperballad" and "It's Oh So Quiet", which became her best-selling single and was certified gold by BPI. The album was followed by a companion remix album, called Telegram (1996).

In 2004, Bjrk released her fifth studio album, titled Medlla, composed almost entirely using human voices and sounds. Its first promotional single, "Oceania", was commissioned by the International Olympic Committee for the 2004 Summer Olympics and debuted at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens. The next year, Bjrk starred in and composed the soundtrack for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9. Bjrk released her sixth studio album, Volta, in 2007. The album was her first to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart, while its first single "Earth Intruders" is Bjrk highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The 2009 release Voltac, is a companion box-set consisting of live and remix recordings.

Bjrk's seventh studio album Biophilia (2011), was a multimedia project encompassing various apps for each song, a series of educational workshops in four continents, a worldwide tour and a documentary. After releasing several remixes as a part of "The Crystalline Series" and the "Biophilia Remix Series", Bjrk released a remix album titled Bastards in 2012. After the end of the tour, the singer released her sixth live album, Bjrk: Biophilia Live. Coinciding with a MoMa exhibition on her career, Bjrk released her eighth studio album, Vulnicura in 2015. The album was followed by the "Vulnicura Remix Series", an acoustic album called Vulnicura Strings, and a live album, Vulnicura Live.

A live album recorded at Olympic Studios in London in 2007. A CD/DVD version includes also two live performances recorded during the Volta tour in Paris and Reykjavk. Both were also included in Voltac.

The last Biophilia tour show with "in-the-round" format, performed at the Alexandra Palace in London, was directed and edited by Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton. It was released as a concert film, debuting at 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and then receiving a series of screening around the world. The album also features bonus footage recorded at the Miraikan in Tokyo.

Bjrk is the only studio album by Icelandic singer Bjrk as a child singer, released in December 1977 by Flkinn. In 1976, Bjrk appeared on Icelandic radio singing "I Love to Love" through the music school she attended, which led her to a record deal and the release, with the help of stepfather Svar, of her first solo album in 1977.

The album is reputed to be juvenilia work and it is not included in the singer's official solo discography, hence the 1993 release Debut is widely considered to be Bjrk's first studio album.[2][3][4][5][6]

The songs were a mixture of covers translated into Icelandic, like The Beatles' "The Fool on the Hill" ('lfur t r Hl'), Edgar Winter's "Alta Mira", Melanie Safka's "Christopher Robin" ('Bnin') and Stevie Wonder's song "Your Kiss Is Sweet" ('Bkolla'), but it also contained some songs written specifically for the album, like the song "Arabadrengurinn" ('The Arab Boy') written by stepfather Svar, and one instrumental recorder-tribute to Icelandic painter Jhannes Kjarval, written and performed by 11-year-old Bjrk.

AllMusic critic Joslyn Layne gave the album an overwhelmingly negative review, stating: "Novelty value can only carry an album so far, and even covers of Stevie Wonder's 'Your Kiss Is Sweet', sung in Icelandic, and the Beatles' 'The Fool on the Hill' will probably not be enough to keep you laughing, or interested for the duration."[9]

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This week I've been listening to a lot of old Bjrk, namely the 1990 jazz album she put out with her trio, Bjrk Gumundsdttir & tr Gumundar Inglfssonar. (Shout out to Ivy, who I stole the album from in college via MyTunes.) The whole album is an easy listen but my personal fave is "Luktar-Gvendur," a sad piano ballad where Bjrk just fucking goes for it. It's a cool Icelandic refraction of "The Old Lamplighter," a classic and widely-covered bandleader jam from the 1940s that's about an old kook who carries a lamp around town and follows children in a non-spooky way.

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Explained to Dazed Magazine back in September 2017, Bjrk mixes the themes of love and personal hardships with political and environmental dilemmas that happened throughout the writing process of the album:

The bulk of the project was handled by Bjrk, alongside fellow artist Arca. The inspiration came whilst they were wrapping up the production for Vulnicura; Bjrk wanted to do the whole record with Arca rather than involve her at the end. As a result, this is also the first album where Bjrk has collaborated with one particular artist all the way through an entire record.

The first news of the album came from Bjrk herself during her pre-taped acceptance speech for International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards. Since then, she teased another album in several interviews before officially announcing one on August 2nd 2017 with a handwritten note on her social media accounts.

"Breakup album" seems a trite term, a genre too trivially mopey to fit this unflinching, devastating exploration. That sounds melodramatic, but Vulnicura is so intimate in its agonies, so clinical in its dissection that your brain, listening, tries to hide from it as if the pain was its own; and, as if the pain was its own, cannot.

Post is considered an important exponent of art pop. It features an eclectic mixture of electronic and dance styles such as techno, trip hop, IDM, and house, but also ambient, jazz, industrial, and experimental music. Bjrk wrote most of the songs after moving to London, and intended Post to convey the city's pace, urban culture, and underground club culture.

Bjrk contacted Nellee Hooper, who previously worked on Debut, to produce the album.[1] He refused initially, encouraging her to produce the album herself, but agreed when she insisted. However, Bjrk agreed to co-produce along with other enlisted producers; "to make it stay fresh, she had to think about other people being involved". With Hooper's confirmation, Bjrk commenced work on the album almost immediately at the Bahamas' legendary Compass Point Studios. The picturesque locale inspired Bjrk to meld the recording process with the exotic natural environment.

For this record, Bjrk incorporated shelved songs she wrote in Manchester with 808 State's Graham Massey, which had preceded the recording sessions for Debut. These included "Army of Me" and "The Modern Things", which had become live staples over the summer, and did not need to undergo extensive transformations at Compass Point.

Although the album was supposed to be delivered the day after she returned from the Bahamas, Bjrk felt it was not yet complete and decided to continue its production back in London. She enlisted a new team of engineers and programmers, and spent the next months "tweaking, rearranging, and sometimes completely rerecording her pre-existing tracks". Ultimately, it was the inclusion of more "real" instruments that "resuscitated Post for Bjrk".

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