"Wanderlust" is a song written and recorded by

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ic singer

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. The track was released digitally as the fourth single from her sixth full-length studio album, '' Volta'', on 7 April 2008.

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s of the single were issued in February 2008. The physical single was released on 12 June after an almost two-month delay. Björk has described "Wanderlust" as being the heart of ''Volta'', and has said that the song is about "the state of looking for something and almost knowing you're never going to find it" and that it makes fun of her hunger for "something new". It was released in the UK on 30 June. As Björk said in an interview for ''

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'', "Things go in circles. Wanderlust, for example, is a sort of continuity of '

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Promotion

Björk has performed the song during every show of her

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. She also performed the song on ''

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'' on 21 April 2007 and on ''

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'' on 27 September 2007. The 3D version of the music video was premiered as part of the 19 April

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culture. Over 10,000 pairs of 3D glasses were distributed for home viewing as well as selected in-store video kiosk locations.

Music video

The

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, directed by

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and Sean Hellfritsch of Encyclopedia Pictura in

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, involves a mixture of large scale puppeteering, live-action acrobatics, miniatures, and CG. The video took nine months to complete and required the creation of a custom-built 3d camera system. It was choreographed by Chris Elam, artistic director of Misnomer Dance, and features Brynne Billingsley and Coco Karol. The video features an unusual style of

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ing where the inside edges are concave. It officially premiered on Yahoo Music on 31 March. In the video, a group of

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crowd beside a river bank. Björk, in an ancient

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tribal costume, appears amongst them and creates a river from the ground. She rises up and leads the herd into the river, and they all float downstream, with Björk on the back of one of the yak-like creatures. Throughout the video, a clay personal

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, dubbed the "painbody" by the directors, comes out of her backpack and tries to attack her. Finally, a god creates a waterfall and Björk falls off the edge and into the water below, where a pair of hands catches her after a vortex of water has engulfed her and the painbody. The opening section of the video features the prelude of

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s that precede "Wanderlust" on the album (it's included on the "

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" track, right when the song ends). The video itself was awarded as Best Art Direction, Best Alternative/Indie Video and Video Of The Year at the 2008 UK Music Video Awards, and was also nominated for Best Special Effects. The video also received Video of the Year nods from the DA&D Awards and SPIN Magazine.

Track listing

The limited edition "multiformat" box set consists of a sticker-sealed fold out box with five colored nesting boxes containing two 12" vinyl singles, a CD and a DVD in colored paper sleeves, a set of 3D glasses and stickers from the music video.Few Ways to Get Wanderlust straight In

12" double heavy weight vinyl

# "Wanderlust" (

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Remix) # "Wanderlust" (

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Mix) # "Wanderlust" (

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Remix) # "Wanderlust" (Mark Stent Instrumental)

CD

# "Wanderlust" (Matthew Herbert Remix) # "Wanderlust" (Mark Stent Mix) # "Wanderlust" (Ratatat Remix) # "Wanderlust" (Mark Stent Instrumental)

DVD

# "Wanderlust" (3D Music video) # "Wanderlust" (2D Music video) # "Making Of"

Digital iTunes EP

# "Wanderlust" (Mark Stent Mix) # "Wanderlust" (Matthew Herbert Remix) # "Wanderlust" (Ratatat Remix) # "Wanderlust" (Mark Stent Instrumental) # "Wanderlust" (music video) In some territories, the music video is replaced with the radio edit of "Wanderlust".

Charts

References

External links

Wanderlust webpageWanderlust releases list at Discogs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wanderlust (Bjork song) 2007 songs 2008 singles Björk songs Songs written by Björk Songs with lyrics by Sjón One Little Independent Records singles Song recordings produced by Björk