Dig it.
Has an album out called "For Emma, Forever Ago."
It's nice, reminiscent of Iron and Wine, but it feels more authentic to me. The harmonies are beautiful. I normally hate this kind of music, for the record.
Dig it.
Has an album out called "For Emma, Forever Ago."
It's nice, reminiscent of Iron and Wine, but it feels more authentic to me. The harmonies are beautiful. I normally hate this kind of music, for the record.
yeah bon iver is good
as predicted by nostradamus
His new album is due out in June and Greg Leisz and Colin Stetson contributed. I'm very excited.
4/15: Tama Sumo @ Seattle
4/25: Rolling Coastal Blackout Fever, Sloucher @ The Crocodile
4/27-30: Stagecoach
5/16: Mount Kimbie @ Neumo's
5/25-27: Sasquatch
Looking forward to it. I resisted the last one for too long.
Wow I love this thread. I never would have taken Jared for a Bon Iver fan. Way to be ahead of the curve as usual. Took me almost a year more before I got into him.
I'm nervous about this new album. Not a big fan of Volcano Choir or Gayngs. I have a feeling this album isn't going to be like his last at all.
I'm hoping Justin got his ya-yas out with Volcano Choir and Gayngs and the new stuff is at least in the same vein as For Emma and the EP.
Well those projects were collaborations (did he even have any creative input with Gayngs?) Volcano Choir retained some of his sound, but both of those sounded more to me like someone adapting his style to work with artists who had clear visions of what they wanted to create.
I think my worries come from those two collaborations, and this article I read the other day:
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/...h-on-new-albumBon Iver frontman Justin Vernon is readying the follow up to the 2007 debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, for release in June.
Kanye West’s favourite auto-tuned folk singer told Rolling Stone that the ten track album will open with a track titled Perth, which was inspired by a “rejuvenating experience” Vernon had while on tour in Australia. According to Rolling Stone the song features “a marching drum beat, a childrens’ choir and wailing guitars” and “sounds a lot like birth”.
Other songs on the record include Minnesota Wisconsin with finger-picked guitars, double bass drums and distorted bass saxophone, which Vernon describes as “a Civil War-sounding heavy metal song… sort of chaotic, dense, jarring” and a horn-heavy album closer titled Beth/Rest which Vernon claims is “definitely the part where you pick up your joint and re-light it.”
Vernon famously wrote For Emma while holed up by himself in the wilderness, but claims that he struggled to write the follow up album – “Somewhere along the line, I forgot how to write songs. I couldn’t do it anymore with a guitar. It wasn’t happening.”
So, perhaps inspired by the collaborative efforts on Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy of his membership in the 23 piece band*Gayngs*, Vernon says he “brought in a lot of people to change my voice — not my singing voice, but my role as the author of this band, this project… I built the record myself, but I allowed those people to come in and change the scene.”
Guests on the album include saxophonist Colin Stetson, who has played with Tom Waits and Arcade Fire and who visited Australia last year as part of the Vivid LIVE festival, and pedal-steel guitarist Greg Leisz (Wilco, Joni Mitchell).
Rolling Stone(Justin Vernon) says it was liberating to recognize his own limitations and move on. “I always had a dream to be that sort of student of Neil Young, one of those people who can sit down and write a song and have it be this full statement and sound good,” he says. “I just don’t think I’m as good at it as those people, frankly, and over the last few years, I’ve adapted.”
this is good stuff. Volcano Choir is still my favorite thing he's done, but I'm digging this one.
Where can I listen?!![]()
FOUR TET. HOT CHIP. SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO. BOOKA SHADE. LEE SCRATCH PERRY. BEACH HOUSE.
Richie Hawtin. James Blake. Loco Dice.
He's boring and makes me angry. That is all.
We're here to play some Mississippi Delta Blues. We're in a horrible depression, and I gotta admit - we're starting to like it.
I'm so glad I went out on a limb and got tickets for one of the shows in August even though it's three hours away. This is really, really good.
Wash is gorgeous. Beth / Rest makes me queasy.
In a good way? I think it's a fucking awesome jam.
Nah. It's autoskipping fodder for me, I'm afraid.