Heartleap
by Vashti Bunyan
Vashti Bunyan bestography
Heartleap is ranked 3rd best out of 4 albums by Vashti Bunyan on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Vashti Bunyan is Just Another Diamond Day which is ranked number 1034 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,680.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Heartleap track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Heartleap ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/16/2026 14:03 | VeVt | 128 | 69/100 | |
| 01/18/2026 13:30 | TonySayers61 | 24,214 | 64/100 | |
| 11/02/2025 03:12 | lanadeleswift | 3,610 | 86/100 | |
| 08/20/2025 09:07 |  Igtonumama | 10,791 | 63/100 | |
| 10/22/2024 02:50 | VanillaBean | 1,186 | 79/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.8.
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HoldenM 06/02/2023 20:42 | #297352
I was quite smitten with this record when it dropped nearly a decade ago. Its delicate, angelic recollections on old friends, parents, childhood and so forth were soothing, if not quite as gripping or as instantaneous as other folk or baroque records I was into at the time. Yet, I've found myself coming back to Heartleap over the years. It has steadily grown into one of my favorite albums. Its unassuming, deceptively simple songwriting and storytelling bursting with a lifetime of wisdom and a peace of mind that hasn't lost one bit of curiosity. Few records are as comforting and poignant.
Where Just Another Diamond Day was a pastoral statement of authenticity and passion, and Lookaftering was a melancholy-tinged celebration of things passed and children and regret and whatever-the-opposite-of-regret-is...I don't know what this is. I don't know what it is all about. The past two albums were almost concept albums in the loosest sense of the term, and they perfectly complimented each other, which is what made me hesitant about her coming out with a new album. And I guess my hesitation was well-founded, though, perhaps my initial hesitation has coloured my view of the album. I can find things to like in the songs if I really try, but I just don't find it beautiful or captivating. My first thought on my first listen was that this is what someone who disliked Vashti Bunyan would think she sounded like. Softer than she has ever been, and seemingly saying less, both musically and lyrically, than she did before. I hope it isn't a bad reflection on me to be able to dislike something so readily by a person who has created two of my favourite albums. May this comment be rendered irrelevant by further listens, but about three listens in, can't say I'm too excited to listen to it again.
rogue 12/18/2014 13:35 | #129600
She sounds like the second coming of Nico with softer instrumentals. Simply gorgeous.
The sound of a light snowfall in winter.
Mercury 12/04/2014 18:37 | #128707
Absolutely transcendently beautiful. It takes glistening, stirring, intimate beauty to the zenith. It's truly marvelous. It brings emotional tears to my eyes.
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