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Vulnicura Metacritic: 87 w/ 30 reviews
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musicOMH - 4.5/5
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Whilst the break-up album is hardly the most original or novel of concepts, Björk’s great skill here is to take material that could become self-indulgent or introspective and render it warm and universal. It’s also a work about family bonds and how fragile they can turn out to be. This is an album in which to find solace, healing, empathy and understanding. Björk is a great artist – but she’s also a human being.
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Chicago Tribune - 3.5/4
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Bjork is in peak form, creating a thematic and sonically linked work that flows seamlessly from track to track.
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Los Angeles Times - 3.5/4
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"Vulnicura" is a serious, heavy journey through a rough ordeal, a work certainly too deep to fully absorb so quickly after its release. Like many of her recent records, it's not toe-tapping beat-based music. But fans like myself will find much to love as we explore its many peaks and valleys.
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The AV Club - B+
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One big event has sent Björk from looking to the future to remembering the minutiae of being in love. The musical moments that capture Björk’s heartbreak are frequently stunning on Vulnicura, but the whole thing is a little shy on hooks and reasons to take the grueling journey with her often.
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NME - 8/10
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It’s not an easy listen, but a brave, beautiful and affecting album – an attempt to find order in chaos that, as she wishes for it, offers a “crutch” to the heartbroken.
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[size=4The Guardian - 4/5[/size]
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You could say there’s something gimlet-eyed about a woman who realises her relationship is collapsing and automatically thinks: still, great material. But it’s nothing if not honest. And besides, on the evidence of Vulnicura, she has a point.
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The Quietus - 80
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"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.
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Clash - 4/5
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Only Björk has been through these travails, seen out these most tumultuous tests, and only she could have articulated what she felt once all had settled into some sort of new normality in quite such a mesmerising manner.
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The Telegraph - 4/5
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After the wild beach party of 2007’s Volta and the shiny wonders of 2011’s Biophilia, Vulnicura is a windswept trek of a record. But one which gradually repays its difficulties with the raw exhilaration of survival.
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The New York Times - 4/5
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Even amid the most abstruse music, these songs have an emotional immediacy. The physicality of Björk’s voice and the strings are even more striking against the impersonal electronic sounds, all the better to reveal the interior landscape of heartbreak and healing — not a simple story, and all the better for it.
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Slant - 3/5
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Vulnicura isn't the album to take her to that place; if Biophilia suggested she may be heading toward its vicinity, this alien object is a reminder we may never understand the inner workings of one of the most truly unique icons in popular music, even if the trajectory of that path continues to be worth mapping.
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The Independent - 3/5
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But throughout, Bjork’s own vocals are the stumbling-block: as she painstakingly enunciates cumbersome lines like “I wish to synchronise our feelings” and “I am bored of your apocalyptic obsessions”, it’s like hearing an android learning how to communicate - which may, I suppose, be the point, but doesn’t make it any more attractive.
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have they payed attention to the lyrics??
