Bjork - Unravel

While you are away
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn

Album: Homogenic [3rd album]
Recorded: Malaga, Spain
Genre: Art Pop, Electronic
Release: September 22nd 1997 [as a part of the album]
Length: 3:22
Producer: Bjork, Guy Sigsworth
Vocals: Bjork [age 31]
Label: Elektra Records, One Little Indian Records

Tour visual


Live in Hamburg 2002


Official Audio

Charts

Australia (albums): #6
Iceland (albums): #1
UK (albums): #4
UK (albums): Certified gold in October 1997
USA (albums): #18
USA (albums): Certified gold in August 2001
Spotify = 13,000,000 +
YouTube Music = 4,000,000 +
Slant Magazine Best Albums of the 90's (2011): #1
Spin Magazine Best Albums of the Year 1997: #4
Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 90's (2003): #21
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: #202
Brit Award Winner 1997: International Female Solo Artist
Grammy Award Nominee 1998: Best Alternative Music Performance (losing to Radiohead)

Details

Clavichord, drums, keyboards, pipe organ

Details

• This is her first record with Mark Bell as producer and has a distinctly more uniform approach than her previous efforts. The songs also have a chillier, almost icy feel.
  
• The song is about being separated from a lover and anticipating getting back together.
  
• Bjork's vocals are sang but they are almost spoken word.
  
• Radiohead's Thom Yorke described the song as the most beautiful piece of music he has ever heard.
• Cover version by Thom Yorke
• Ether Coven released a sludge metal version in 2020