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July 24th 2026
Vinyl Reissue
Drawing Restraint 9 is a highly avant-garde soundtrack and the seventh full-length studio album by Icelandic musician Björk. Released on July 25, 2005, via One Little Independent Records (formerly One Little Indian), it serves as the official score for the experimental art film of the same name created by her then-partner, visual artist Matthew Barney.
The album represents a radical departure from traditional movie scoring and stands out as one of Björk's most deeply abstract, experimental, and instrumental-heavy bodies of work.
Set aboard the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru, the narrative explores themes of Shinto religion, traditional tea ceremonies, marine biology, and a surreal transformation between two guests. The music mirrors this with an intense fascination with the ocean, Japanese ritualism, and the hidden structures of nature.
Unlike her previous studio efforts, the project is characterized by a major absence of Björk's own signature singing voice, which only appears prominently on three tracks. Instead, the vocal arrangements rely on guests like Will Oldham (singing an English translation of a letter written to General Douglas MacArthur regarding whaling moratoriums), Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, and traditional Noh theater vocals by Shiro Nomura.
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