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 and final studio album by English singer-songwriter 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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