Vulnicurais the eighth studio album from Icelandic artistBjrk.Vulnicurawas written, produced and recorded in collaboration with Venezuelan producerArcaand British musicianThe Haxan Cloak. Of the albums nine tracks, six are written byBjrkwithtwo co-written withArcaand one co-written withSpaces. Six songs are produced byBjrk and Arca, one byBjrk, Arca and The Haxan Cloakand two byBjrk. All string arrangements are byBjrk. The album was mixed byThe Haxan Cloak, except two songs mixed byThe Haxan Cloak and Chris Elms, andmastered by Mandy Parnell.VulnicuraisBjrksfirst release since the 2011 album/multimedia projectBiophilia.
“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!” –Bjrk
BjorkVulnicuraTrack Listing:
LP11. Stonemilker2. Lionsong3. History of Touches4. Black Lake5. Family
LP21. Notget2. Atom Dance3. Mouth Mantra4. Quicksand