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Post

  • "Cover Me" is extremely spooky with all those programmings and harp arrangement. It also portrays Björk's desperation pretty well.

Homogenic

Vespertine

Medúlla(To be precise, this album is half scary and half inspiring.)

  • "Pleasure Is All Mine" is full of intense bass vocals and all those disturbing choruses. It's intimidating yet very glorious in its own way.
  • "Ancestors". By far her most avant-garde song, it features throat singing that turns into a dog choking for air.
  • "Where Is the Line?" has creepy, stuttering bass vocals that could easily qualify. The music video's also rather dark. Definitely the darkest in Medulla's era.
  • "Submarine" is far too creepy for a motivational song Björk wrote for herself.

Volta

  • "Earth Intruders." After listening to it a few times, it does get admittedly less creepy... but still. The intro is mainly the squelching of footsteps in mud and some very primitive-sounding drums. Then Björk starts singing such lovely lyrics as "grinding skeptics into the soil/Shower of goodness coming to/End the doubt pouring over." Not to mention the occasional shrieking of "TURMOIL, CARNAGE!" Just to top it off, the album version ends with about a minute and a half of soft, eerie alarms and foghorn noises. The music video is essentially a tableau of primitive figures with spears superimposed on Bjork's face. Then about halfway through the video... the figures get machine guns, and whoever's listening to the song runs away.

Biophilia

  • "Dark Matter" is also quite creepy, consisting of nothing but a dissonant, rumbling organ with her chanting gibberish over it.
  • “Virus” has soothing vocals and pretty chimes, giving it a sort of dreamlike feel, but the lyrics make it unnerving when noting the title; namely “I knock on your skin, and I am in”.

Vulnicura

  • "Family" stands out as a particularly dark track, with the use of dissonant, atmospheric strings and heavy bass tones. This makes sense considering that dark ambient artist The Haxan Cloak helped to produce the song. The lyrics, on the other hand, stick firmly to Tear Jerker territory.
  • Andrew Thomas Huang's cover art for the CD and vinyl editions of the album.
  • "Mouth Mantra". Both the song itself and its video.

Fossora

  • The first act of "Victimhood" is simply terrifying, consisting of sparse long tones that sound like they came from musical purgatory.


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