Heartleap

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Heartleap
Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap.jpg
Studio album by
Released6 October 2014
Recorded2007-2014
Genre Psychedelic folk, freak folk
Length34:42
Label FatCat
Producer Vashti Bunyan
Vashti Bunyan chronology
Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind – Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967
(2007)
Heartleap
(2014)

Heartleap is the third studio album by Vashti Bunyan, released on October 6, 2014, in the UK on FatCat Records and October 7 in the U.S. via DiCristina. First announced in June, Heartleap was accompanied by a statement where Bunyan wrote, "The whole point of the album was finally to learn a way that would enable me to record the music that is in my head, by myself. I neither read nor write music, nor can I play piano with more than one hand at a time, but I have loved being able to work it all out for myself and make it sound the way I wanted. I've built these songs over years. The album wouldn't have happened any other way." [1]

Contents

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (82/100) [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork Media (7.8/10) [3]
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The Line of Best Fit(8.5/10) [5]
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The 405(8.5/10) [7]
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Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Dusted Magazine(Very Favourable) [10]
No Ripchord(8/10) [11]
Clash (7/10) [12]
PopMatters (7/10) [13]
The Quietus (Favourable) [14]
Unrecorded (84/100) [15]

Track listing

All songs written, arranged and produced by Vashti Bunyan, except arrangement of strings in "Across the Water", improvised by Fiona Brice and Ian Burdge.

No.TitleLength
1."Across the Water"3:48
2."Holy Smoke"4:48
3."Mother"3:30
4."Jellyfish"3:42
5."Shell"4:08
6."The Boy"1:40
7."Gunpowder"3:04
8."Blue Shed"2:11
9."Here"3:18
10."Heartleap"4:39

Personnel

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