The little drums your talking about are called "Micro Beats" and were invented by Bjork. There made up of loads of common sounds like cards being shuffled, and were made by her, so the album would sound crisp and clear when played on an laptop, which at the time had terrible speakers which couldn't process a lot of music's actual sound. She's a genius!
My favorite björk album, so intimate, crystalline and beautiful. Pagan Poetry is one of her top tracks ever, her vocals at the end of the song are unreal
U’ve just discovered (imo) the greatest singer songwriter / producer of all times, and absolutely the best album too. Try her album Homogenic next, it’s almost equally amazing.
You know that saying 'dance like no one is watching'? Well Bjork sings like no one is listening, totally unfetered and free, no worries of sounding unusual. Some of the production on this album was by electronic duo Matmos who were experimenting a lot around this time with these kind of sounds. Their 'A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure' album was made primarily from samples of medical tools and procedures.
this album is so excellent that i want to keep it a secret. i don't want to tell people how good it is because it feels like a piece of my heart. to share it feels like I'm exploiting it and I've never had this experience with an album before.
every single björk album sounds different and special, there's always something unique with her music that will catch your ear. homogenic, medúlla, post, vulnicura, fossora... all of them actually :P
I always love watching more people discover Bjork 😊😊🥂. I will recommend listening to her discography in chronological order. It will truly showcase her Growth As a Person & her Sonic Evolution 🤯🤯. This album was inspired by her romance with a good friend and fellow music producer she would collab with at times, Matthew Barney. She had gone thru a divorce from her son's dad ; a few years before this album. This project is a reflection of this new phase of her life and encountering Love again but hesitant to trust. Vespertine's sounds are full of classical instruments , electronic Synths but also ingeniously incorporates the use of Micro-Beats(everyday sounds like shuffling a deck of cards to shaking a bag of chips) in the lush yet simple production. Your comment about RadioHead and the sounds are spot on. Her previous albums Debut (1993) & Post (1995) were influence for Radiohead and their 97 album, Ok Computer.
Before Björk, there was Nina Hagen. Since Björk's vocals caused such an impact on you, take a listen to her album Nunsexmonkrock. It's arguably the most creative use of human voice ever put on a record. Sometimes people say she sounds evil, I see it as the wrath of angels in ecstasy.
Since you liked those awesome screamy female vocals and also the intimate moments on this one, I think you'd love 'Uh Huh Her' and also 'Is This Desire?' by PJ Harvey.
Weeeell, candid reaction! If you liked her voice, I would recommend her next album, "Medulla": it is an a capella album. It is incredible how she changes from Homogenic to Vespertine and then Medulla!
I've been following your series for a while, I know I'm under the wrong video but I've really appreciated your prog rock reviews, and here I recommend a few albums that imo you should listen to! Soft Machine - Third Egg - Self titled Gong - Angel's Egg Aphrodite's Child - 666 Beware because these are a tough listen! Keep it up!
That frosti interlude is pretty great like i love music boxes there beautiful but like the way its processed is like really christmasy like its beautiful its sleepy and nice but also like really upbeat and bell like
This album is best listened to on headphones going for a long walk on a dark street ,at night in January during -10 degrees Celsius, with the snow crunching under your feet as you walk with your face to the stars and maybe glimpsing a shifting aurora... Pure magic. ✨✨ Because i did in my twenties and it felt like my soul was soaring with the stars and universe
This whole album is very ASMR. Bjork has said that it is supposed to sound like winter actually! Thank you so much for covering great yet less popular artists. ❤️
@@lemmmakestunes8312 yeah id say rdj is probably the best, saw1 is also pretty easy to get into but its also much more mellow than most of his discography
It's cool you enjoyed it. I still haven't come around on this album. If you're interested in noise rock at all, Umber by Bitch Magnet is a fine release. The album has a level balance of harder and slower material.
Im hoping you can expand your format a bit, cause you should really try watching the live performance of Vespertine "Live at the Royal Opera House" Its literally perfect.
would be awesome to see you do a reaction to ceres and calypso in the deep time by candy claws! amazing shoegaze album that sounds nothing like other stuff from the genre
Very good album . You are a great guy :) and I notice on your video on your left the album sade love deluxe . How is it possible for a young guy like you to know this album and love this album ???? ^^ I really love this album love deluxe Every track . Kiss of life Mermaid Bullet proof soul oh my god this album is perfection .
idk why the thumb is killing me but nice video this album is amazing . Btw - there are some bsides from the album too that i think ud enjoy (ie generous palmstroke, domestica)
You should totally react to a matmos record. They did some of the beats on this album (mostly the samplier stuff) and they have a really cool discography. I would recommend either the civil war, which is this really cool medieval folktronica thing or ultimate care 2 which is a single 40 minute song, entirely sampling the duo’s washing machine. They are both dope as fuck
"Dreamy and surprisingly intense" is a PERFECT description of this album. And the way you're just sitting there with your jaw hanging open? Yeah I did the exact same thing 21 years ago, LOL Never occurred to me until you mentioned it that this album is chock-full of ASMR sounds. Also, your T-shirt is killing it. Props!
one of my all time favorites. bjork is such a mastermind. here are some more recommendations Jane Weaver - Flock St. Vincent - Actor Portishead - Dummy Portishead - Third Nico - The Marble Index here are the others i left previously Broadcast - Haha Sound Broadcast - Tender Buttons Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
I heard this for the first time a couple days ago, and can say my reactions were very similar to yours except with a bit more tearing up lol. This album got me floating. Edit: also crazy how this album goes from metaphors to just straight up sucking dick, honestly kind of awesome (pause) (but also kind of unpause because the album is really amazing)
@@smags1082 I'll put my vote in for Fever Ray's debut album "Fever Ray". It's dark electro pop (I guess) from a Swedish artist. I think you'll enjoy it if you're a fan of great production!
don’t wanna be that guy but more like Radiohead is a male version of Bjork. Her works, especially Homogenic, heavily influenced Thom on Kid A and future projects of theirs so ye
12:13 that was a completely unnecessary comment. You're were so good with the reaction until this point. Men and their stupid urge to say something misogynistic
"I don't know if I can relate to this" on Cocoon killed me bruy 💀💀💀💀
i literally SCREAMED at "yo this guy's dick must be fire bro" 😭😭😭
one of the best albums of all time
is vulnicura
@@gxngy6612 that aswell. they go hand in hand
@@gxngy6612 wrd
@@gxngy6612 nah sis
@@sergiocabezuela9713girl every album and song even holographic entry point
Vespertine is one of the great albums
yes, ever
The little drums your talking about are called "Micro Beats" and were invented by Bjork. There made up of loads of common sounds like cards being shuffled, and were made by her, so the album would sound crisp and clear when played on an laptop, which at the time had terrible speakers which couldn't process a lot of music's actual sound. She's a genius!
I can cry with the track unison .
Perfection
Half the album makes me tear up
you know what time it is
0:00 Intro
0:50 Hidden Place
3:32 Cocoon
5:54 It's Not Up to You
8:24 Undo
10:49 Pagan Poetry
13:20 Frosti
14:24 Aurora
15:50 An Echo, a Stain
16:59 Sun in My Mouth
18:35 Heirloom
19:44 Harm of Will
21:09 Unison
22:57 Discussion
This album never gets old and never fails in making me emotional. Really beautiful
My favorite björk album, so intimate, crystalline and beautiful. Pagan Poetry is one of her top tracks ever, her vocals at the end of the song are unreal
My favorite Björk song ever
her vocals are crazy
U’ve just discovered (imo) the greatest singer songwriter / producer of all times, and absolutely the best album too. Try her album Homogenic next, it’s almost equally amazing.
You know that saying 'dance like no one is watching'? Well Bjork sings like no one is listening, totally unfetered and free, no worries of sounding unusual. Some of the production on this album was by electronic duo Matmos who were experimenting a lot around this time with these kind of sounds. Their 'A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure' album was made primarily from samples of medical tools and procedures.
VESPERTINE and Kid A are one of the best albums ever created
Along with BoC's 'Geogaddi' and 'Music has the Right to Children :)
Before ASMR was ever even a thing. Man, she's one in a million. This album is so ethereal, that's the term I'd use.
this album is so excellent that i want to keep it a secret. i don't want to tell people how good it is because it feels like a piece of my heart. to share it feels like I'm exploiting it and I've never had this experience with an album before.
Well it's very famous lol
Wtf
i get you
every single björk album sounds different and special, there's always something unique with her music that will catch your ear. homogenic, medúlla, post, vulnicura, fossora... all of them actually :P
babe wake up smags dropped vespertine reaction
every time smags uploads an angel earns it’s wings
Unison one of the most beautiful songs ever created 💎
I always love watching more people discover Bjork 😊😊🥂.
I will recommend listening to her discography in chronological order. It will truly showcase her Growth As a Person & her Sonic Evolution 🤯🤯.
This album was inspired by her romance with a good friend and fellow music producer she would collab with at times, Matthew Barney. She had gone thru a divorce from her son's dad ; a few years before this album.
This project is a reflection of this new phase of her life and encountering Love again but hesitant to trust.
Vespertine's sounds are full of classical instruments , electronic Synths but also ingeniously incorporates the use of Micro-Beats(everyday sounds like shuffling a deck of cards to shaking a bag of chips) in the lush yet simple production.
Your comment about RadioHead and the sounds are spot on. Her previous albums Debut (1993) & Post (1995) were influence for Radiohead and their 97 album, Ok Computer.
Before Björk, there was Nina Hagen. Since Björk's vocals caused such an impact on you, take a listen to her album Nunsexmonkrock. It's arguably the most creative use of human voice ever put on a record.
Sometimes people say she sounds evil, I see it as the wrath of angels in ecstasy.
Nina Hagen is a goddess
Since you liked those awesome screamy female vocals and also the intimate moments on this one, I think you'd love 'Uh Huh Her' and also 'Is This Desire?' by PJ Harvey.
top 5 album for me
Weeeell, candid reaction! If you liked her voice, I would recommend her next album, "Medulla": it is an a capella album. It is incredible how she changes from Homogenic to Vespertine and then Medulla!
I've been following your series for a while, I know I'm under the wrong video but I've really appreciated your prog rock reviews, and here I recommend a few albums that imo you should listen to!
Soft Machine - Third
Egg - Self titled
Gong - Angel's Egg
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Beware because these are a tough listen! Keep it up!
My favorite album, it's pure perfection ❤️
Maravillosa reacción macho 🎉🎉🎉
bro unison is so good 😭😭
That frosti interlude is pretty great like i love music boxes there beautiful but like the way its processed is like really christmasy like its beautiful its sleepy and nice but also like really upbeat and bell like
This album is best listened to on headphones going for a long walk on a dark street ,at night in January during -10 degrees Celsius, with the snow crunching under your feet as you walk with your face to the stars and maybe glimpsing a shifting aurora... Pure magic. ✨✨ Because i did in my twenties and it felt like my soul was soaring with the stars and universe
One of my absolute favorite albums, makes me always emotional, almost a spiritual experience
Just found ur channel and you've reacted to like all my favourite albums and I'm so happy about it >:)
Titanic rising by weyes blood is my favorite art pop album. I would love a reaction video
an echo a stain becomes so much more interesting with time, i swear
This whole album is very ASMR. Bjork has said that it is supposed to sound like winter actually! Thank you so much for covering great yet less popular artists. ❤️
I almost died the first time I listened to it.
It is so emotional,so intimate.
My favourite album of all time! 😫 A great album that I would recommend would be Aphex Twin’s ‘Richard D.James Album’ or ‘druQs’ :))))
YES!!!!!
second the aphex twin recommendation, but drukQs might not be the easiest entry point lmao
@@zxr9291 yeah I agree with this actually. Possibly the first selected ambient works? Or syro even?
@@nicholaspetersen9626 syro is way harder to listen than druqks imo rdj is definitley the best place to start
@@lemmmakestunes8312 yeah id say rdj is probably the best, saw1 is also pretty easy to get into but its also much more mellow than most of his discography
It's cool you enjoyed it. I still haven't come around on this album. If you're interested in noise rock at all, Umber by Bitch Magnet is a fine release. The album has a level balance of harder and slower material.
Im hoping you can expand your format a bit, cause you should really try watching the live performance of Vespertine "Live at the Royal Opera House" Its literally perfect.
I agree. It's the best concert film I've ever seen.
You had me at 'bjonk'
Fun fact. An influence on her interesting choices in the percussion sections you comment on is Aphex Twin
would be awesome to see you do a reaction to ceres and calypso in the deep time by candy claws! amazing shoegaze album that sounds nothing like other stuff from the genre
Probably the best album of all time in my opinion. I’ve never heard anything so beautiful
more björk!!! id recommend post or debut 👍🏻
(preferrably post)
Very good album .
You are a great guy :) and I notice on your video on your left the album sade love deluxe .
How is it possible for a young guy like you to know this album and love this album ???? ^^
I really love this album love deluxe
Every track .
Kiss of life
Mermaid
Bullet proof soul oh my god this album is perfection .
YAY Bjork is amazing!! Definitely check out “Post” or “Homogenic”
A masterpiece album
Welcome to a new world young man.
immaculate album.
idk why the thumb is killing me but nice video this album is amazing . Btw - there are some bsides from the album too that i think ud enjoy (ie generous palmstroke, domestica)
do more bjork reactions, i love that shit, people love that shit :D !
Pagan poetry is easily my all time favorite song ever
also, Cocteau Twins - Treasure
if you’ve never heard it!
deffo listen to melanchole by salvia palth, its such a beautiful and calming shoegazy album
also '6 feet beneath the moon' by king krule is great, really different to legit anything
any king krule tbh
Hey man I think you should listen to something by Ozric Teentacles, super cool space rock band. Id recommend there Erpland or Strangeitude album!
You should totally react to a matmos record. They did some of the beats on this album (mostly the samplier stuff) and they have a really cool discography. I would recommend either the civil war, which is this really cool medieval folktronica thing or ultimate care 2 which is a single 40 minute song, entirely sampling the duo’s washing machine. They are both dope as fuck
How's about White Light White Heat by Velvet Underground?
"Dreamy and surprisingly intense" is a PERFECT description of this album. And the way you're just sitting there with your jaw hanging open? Yeah I did the exact same thing 21 years ago, LOL
Never occurred to me until you mentioned it that this album is chock-full of ASMR sounds. Also, your T-shirt is killing it. Props!
would love to see a reaction to george clanton - slide
My favourite album
I definitely recommend Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Let's fucking go
nice review
one of my all time favorites. bjork is such a mastermind. here are some more recommendations
Jane Weaver - Flock
St. Vincent - Actor
Portishead - Dummy
Portishead - Third
Nico - The Marble Index
here are the others i left previously
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Reviewing dummy soon I think
@@smags1082 🥶🥶🥶🔥🔥🔥
Just listened to actor i think its my fav from vincent
listen to all her albums NOW
You have to listen to COCTEAU TWINS HEAVEN or LAS VEGAS
12:11 You didn't already get that from hearing Cocoon?
Try Warpaint’s album “The Fool”
I heard this for the first time a couple days ago, and can say my reactions were very similar to yours except with a bit more tearing up lol. This album got me floating.
Edit: also crazy how this album goes from metaphors to just straight up sucking dick, honestly kind of awesome (pause) (but also kind of unpause because the album is really amazing)
The video clip from pagan poetry is a real sex tape of bjork and her ex husband ^^
The man she is singing about is the artist Mathew Barney.
My first time on your channel.. great reaction! Do you have a Patreon page to take requests?
No but possibly in the future once I gain more supporters. Thank you !!
@@smags1082 I'll put my vote in for Fever Ray's debut album "Fever Ray". It's dark electro pop (I guess) from a Swedish artist. I think you'll enjoy it if you're a fan of great production!
Little Spongebob underwater beat 💀
12:12 jajajajaja she is súper intense like that
please please please listen to Grace by Jeff Buckley
B-jonk 😂
yo i love bjorb
Do it review/react of Casino Versus Japan - Go Hawaii
@12:13 bro my thoughts the whole album 😭
12:13
fight me homogenic stans, but vespertine is her master piece
You definitely have to do Homogenic.
BJONK
12:13 LMFAOOOO
wdym ut gonna go to aurora borealis
I realise this is a year old but just so you know her name is pronounced BeYurk. Have a great life my friend.
I feel like men and women have such a different experience of this album
The Radiohead comparison is spot on! Bjork is basically female Radiohead lol
don’t wanna be that guy but more like Radiohead is a male version of Bjork. Her works, especially Homogenic, heavily influenced Thom on Kid A and future projects of theirs so ye
Viva La Woman by Cibo Matto
Amazing album.
do you mew
Screaming at pagan poetry commentary 😭😭
12:12 HUH?
You’re missing the microbeats
Homogenic by Bjork
I’m sure you’ve read some pagan poetry-Everyone’s read Beowulf, no?
Uh VVhy are yall styled like our Generation and Culture and how we grew up now and you didn't ?
Not B'junk💀
12:13 that was a completely unnecessary comment. You're were so good with the reaction until this point. Men and their stupid urge to say something misogynistic
As if women were not rating men by beauty and wealth all the time.
@@johnnyrichards77 What does that have to do with anything?
Learn to take a joke😭
How is that misogynistic or mean in any way 😭😭😭