Tibi PuiuJustin Vernon’s second full length studio installment has long been awaited, as anticipation grows ever thick in the wake of the release of “For Emma, Forever Ago”‘s follow-up. Reports have it Bon Iver’s sophomore yet untitled release will be out this June, although a shroud of mystery is wrapped around the project, fact amplified by a recently unveiled teaser video. The very short 50 seconds video features interesting instrumentals overlapped by Vernon’s unmistakable haunting vocals…
Top Albums of the Decade: 2008
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This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Portishead – Third (Island Records) Muscular synthesizers, drum breaks and abrupt endings keeping the tension high. In a few words this is how Portishead’s third studio release, suggestively titled “Third,” sounds like. An amalgam of noise, distortions and Eastern Bloc minimalism is what the first listener might…
Kanye West vs Bon Iver – ‘Lost in The World’
I never thought Kanye West and Bon Iver can be pronounced together in a sentence, let alone a song. Seems like discrepancies and unlikely collaborations make up for a unexpectedly solid track – Lost in The World, a Kanye West production that heavily samples Justin Vernon’s 2008 eery autotune Woods. Yeah, you probably expected something like Justin spitting rhymes in the mic side by side with Kanye, but aside from it looking extremely awkward, that…
Hot Streaming: Thom Yorke, Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li, Bon Iver, St. Vincent from the New Moon soundtrack
We’ve raved a lot over what an awesome compilation the soundtrack for the upcoming teen-vampire-in-love New Moon flick will make. Today, however, we can finally sample the O.S.T. and settle once and far all if the hype is justified or not. The soundtrack itself is yet to have been released, but, like it usually happens, it got leaked all over the internet recently and Youtube is packed with streams. I’ve added bellow some streams that…
New Volcano Choir video: ‘Island, IS’
Last week, when I featured one of the leading tracks from Volcano Choir’s debut, “Unmap”, I said: “A product of the joint creative minds of Bon Iver and Collections of Colonies of Bees, the album impresses through it’s deep and sincere music, straight from the heart. Bon Iver, as always, is simply incredible, even though his vocals aren’t featured on most of the album, his presence however, for those of us who’ve had For Emma…
Download Volcano Choir: – ‘Husk and Shells’
“Unmap”, by Volcano Choir, is an incredible project, one that’s been many years in the making (more than four years!), but which has now finally been released for the common pair of ears to rejoice upon. A product of the joint creative minds of Bon Iver and Collections of Colonies of Bees, the album impresses through it’s deep and sincere music, straight from the heart. Bon Iver, as always, is simply incredible, even though his…
Bon Iver’s For Emma (a cappella version) @ La Blogoteque
I saw this beautiful a cappella version sometime last year, when Bon Iver was in Paris to record for Vincent Moon’s La Blogoteque session, and remember that at the time I was completely shocked by its spontaneous beauty. The pure joy of people singing out of the random, the completely silenced crowd outside a Paris condominium or simply a happy dog, turned the song into a really special experience. For some reason or another, I…
Hot Streaming: Bon Iver – Blood Bank EP (limited)
Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago” ranked #3 on our ZME Top 50 of 2008, making it, for us at least, one of the best albums of year and one of the best debuts in years. Although “Blood Bank,” the latest material from Justin, is just a short, four track EP, it’s interesting to see if he can produce music of the same quality, without being confined to an isolated Wisconsin mountain cabin. For those…
Download: Bon Iver – ‘Blood Bank’
2008 was Justin Vernon’s (aka Bon Iver) year, for sure. His very special debut album, “For Emma, Forever Ago,” (special thanks to its circumstances of creation, special thanks to its soothing nature, special thanks to its sincerity – special by definition) earned him a lot of recognition on and off the scene, and, ultimately, made him one of the most hottest acts of 2008. Naturally, his fans have been aching after some new material and,…
Bon Iver to return with new EP and tour
Since he released his brilliant debut album, “For Emma, Forever Ago,” last year, Bon Iver has been a bit scarassed with new material on us. Not anymore, though, as he’ll be releasing a new 4 track EP soon, titled “Blood Bank,” which will soon be in stores in UK/Ireland on January 19 and the U.S. on January 20, via Jagjaguwar Records. The format of the EP will be CD and download. Bon Iver will also…