Björk - Family

björk: family taken from the new album vulnicura

[sassisbetter]

so many people have said her music is alien or otherworldly, yet this is the most human thing I've ever witnessed. I felt a rainbow of emotions and experiences

[stephaniewescoup]

This album came out when I was going through my divorce. Its special to me.

[valentinolvigos]

I think we all agree that the end of this song is fucking magical, breathtaking, trascendental. Those chords, and strings and her voice; the atmosphere it generates is so lovely, sad, nostalgic but encouraging at the same time. It makes me feel things that i never felt before, Björk is just magical; a mistic of sound and emotions from another dimension.

[ishallremaincalm]

Björk is the reason I'm not afraid of pain. She made me feel strong in ways I didn't even ask for.

[WKADESIGNS]

If Vulnicura has a centerpiece, or heart rather, then this is definitely it.  The beginning is a shroud of sorrow and darkness, a whisping black veil of despair and grief.  But as it progresses, the clouds slowly part and the beam of hope and healing come to evaporate the flood of pain.  This is true genius, and I don't know how Björk had the composure and strength to document these feelings so purely and intensely.

[jimjam]

The ending feels like there are hundreds of butterflies in your upper chest. Like a wound being sown.

[jeremiahmason]

I cry every time. Literally the only artist in this world to bring me to tears. I discovered her while serving in the US Navy on deployment. Bjork is very special to me. Her music has gotten me through so much. This truly felt the pain.

[tymcbee]

"I raise a monument of love..." Such a beautiful lyric and moment in a very ethereal track! So beautiful!

[Leo-gcvi]

It's unbelievable how final part of this song gives me shivers every time i hear it. It's almost like a transportation to another dimension, a flutuation, a levitation.!
I have to confess tears flood my eyes.

[wolfgangromine]

Next to Undo, and All Is Full Of Love (the album version), this is one of the most beautiful and otherworldly songs she's ever written.

[diogogrijp]

everything starts to shine when love comes at 4:00
Is the moment of cure.

Sometimes love seems to be the cause of all pain and devastation, but in fact it is the remedy

We need to raise these monuments during our life to move on

[DanielRodriguez-lpgr]

I think the reason why Bjork's music comes as "weird" is because it's pure, in the sense that is no seekeing to adapt to any style or kind of music, it might not even atempt to be "likeable"or pleasing to the ear, but express feeling just like they are, in the most raw possible way.

[KELE]

Is there a place
Where I can pay respects
For the death of my family?
Show some respect
Between the three of us
There is the mother and the child
Then there is the father and the child
But no man and a woman
No triangle of love

So, where do I go
To make an offering?
I fall on my knees
Lay my flowers (Burn incense)
Light the candles
So, where do I go
To make an offering?
To mourn our miraculous triangle?
Father, mother, child
Father, mother, child

How will I sing us
Out of this sorrow?
Build a safe bridge
For the child out of this danger

I raise a monument of love
There is a swarm of sound
Around our heads
And we can hear it
And we can get healed by it
It will relieve us from the pain
It will make us a part of
This universe of solutions
This place of solutions
This location of solutions

[RyanVoorhies]

first track i listened to after the news of my friend's suicide... always thought this was a devastating piece of music, and it hits even harder now. really beautiful, and eloquent in its expression of grief.

[jesstwocrow]

My husband of 16 years and the father of my children passed away a week ago. Bjork was his favorite. I know she wrote this about divorce, but it is touching me so deeply right now.

[josephtheodorkelly]

This song is like an album in itself. I would love an extended 15 minute version- it's complex enough.

[ryancalcaterra]

I could tell this was produced by the Haxan Cloak immediately. That massive rattling, rumbling bass is a dead giveaway.

[eosphoroussanchez]

Idk why the beginning violin sound gives me the image of like rotting or decomposing then the harsh drum sound gives me like a visual of someone digging up a grave. Then the somberness of it all kicks in. Then towards the middle it like the spirit of whatever is being dug into a grave is outraged by the whole thing but by the end it becomes at peace with the situation and ascension happens and there is hope.

[NatureFreak]

i cannot put into words how beautiful this track gets from the fourth minute.

[szarnyasmajom]

This must be one of the most difficult songs to listen to. Not because of its structure or sound, but because it's so emotionally heavy. I can feel physical pressure in my chest and a stinging feeling in my eye whenever I listen to this track, it's almost as if Björk literally put her heart into it. I can't even imagine how hard it must have been to sing this song night after night on tour, I have massive respect for her and her wonderful art. ❤️