Vespertine

Joe, there's one exception to that rule, though, and I have to get you to listen to it because it's one of my favorite albums of all time.

But, um, Björk's Vespertine, she actually recorded that album to sound good on the tiny little speakers built into her laptop.

In fact, she didn't monitor it, you know, with her normal headphones.

It's like she literally mixed and mastered that album on her laptop via the laptop speakers, and it is one of the most beautiful sounding records she ever made.

That's a desert island.

Um, uh, Vespertine Live by Bjork.

Um, that's just some astonishing music and some astonishing, um, string arrangements by Vince Mendoza.

Um, a full, full orchestra arrangements.

It's such incredible music.

Compositionally, the phrasing as to how she sings, the control, the, like, it's just...

And this, this orchestra music that's on Vespertine, on Homogenic, um, that, it's just some of the best writing I've ever heard, and it's, and it, it, it's like, um, def- for me, like, it's a big defining p- I mean, the reasons why I like to work with orchestras and, and write with that, um, with a symphony as an instrument, it's like, you know, it's just such a cool, incredible, dynamic, colorful instrument as a whole to play with.

But growing up, I was, I would go see Dave, uh, David Benoit do shows with San Francisco Symphony and things like that, and I would just be like, "Whoa, this is just like, this combination of...

Uh, on this podcast, we are exploring the career and music of Björk.

Uh, and today we're gonna continue the deep dive into her fourth studio album, Vespertine.

Very interesting album.

Uh, let's pick up where we left off.

Um, the, the, the song was, was started really late into the process with Marius de Vries, who had- A hell of a job putting this together, I think.

Um, he, he was just coming off his work putting together the soundtrack and score for Moulin Rouge.

Uh, and then had to find his way through this sort of labyrinthine stack of material that eventually becomes Vespertine.

Um, as we said, Björk had been traveling all over the world to collaborate with different people.

Yeah.

Vespertine is released on August the 18th, 2001 in Japan and August the 27th in the rest of the world.

August 2001.

Where were you guys? Steve, you and I were just about to meet.

But we're 12.

You were having the beginnings of your own music taste by now, going into year seven, I would have thought.

How close was it to the kind of music that we hear on Vespertine?

It was Green Day and The Offspring and Lit.

... yeah, yeah.

At five, Bjork with Vespertine.

You strike me as a Bjork guy.

I've never listened to Bjork, but I did watch Dancer in the Dark.

I think Bjork is one of the best artists of all time.

I'll go with her album Vespertine, 2001.

I think it's like...

has some of the greatest

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Third album? That's a good question.

Let's go Bjork, Vespertine.

Yeah, so for, I mean, the same reasons

as above, a beautiful crystal castle of a record that feels like the most perfect wintry universe and...

You can hear, like, um, the song The Crusher on Delenda, the middle part, uh, there's a breakdown that goes dun, dun, da, da, da-dun, da, da-dun, da, dun.

That, that's the first song off Björk's Vespertine.

That's the baseline.

All right.