You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece,

tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

My name is Björk and I'm here to talk about Stonemülgör on my album Volnikura.

In January 2015, Björk released Volnikura.

She described it as a complete heartbreak album.

And in November, she released Volnikura Strings, a companion album that stripped away the

electronics.

In this episode, Björk breaks down the making of both the original version of Stonemülgör,

as well as the string's version.

She traces her writing and recording process for the track and her reasons for wanting

to make a second version.

It's about someone who's trying to get emotions out of another person.

The whole song is emotionally about wanting clarity, wanting simplicity, and talking to

someone who wants things to be really complex and foggy and unclear.

And you're saying, OK, I've got clarity.

So you know, one or not.

So it's like sort of celebrating simplicity and clarity.

I was walking on a beach and I was kind of walking back and forth and the lyrics kind of came

along kind of without me really editing them.

The strings of this album really is just simplicity and you know, this kind of like thinking

out loud feeling.

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