the (second) Bon Iver album

His phrasing is exquisite, but, wow, that Raitt cover (which I just heard) left me cold. Rather appropriate that he stretched out the "Don't patronize me" line.

to me his only serious misstep there - Raitt's delivery of that line sets a ridiculously high bar though

I can't get past his voice, and I'm not that fond of Asia.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 20, 2011 5:47 PM (Yesterday)

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I have no idea how I feel about this album yet, but this is an excellent sentence.

Colbert interview right now is lolz. Gonna do "Calgary" after the commercial break.

a second opinion

Hrm. Can see that getting replaced down the road.

do we still use enya as a generic stand-in for "shlocky aural wallpaper"?

and geez, two-and-a-half? that's a one-star review if i've ever read one. "overblown debacle," ouch. sounds like someone didn't get what they wanted for christmas.

yeah overblown is pretty lol considering one of the first things that jumps out is the careful arrangements

which btw remind me more of Antony than anyone

man fuck enya haters

it's always hilarious when some indie album gets a lot of attention and people who would never in a million years have listened to it otherwise get all up in arms about it

then again that sentence is probably true just as a generalization with all genres - it's hilarious/boring when some (metal, rap, bossa) album gets a lot of attention and people get all OH NOT DON'T YOU REALIZE IT'S HORRIBLE

all right so i am listening to this for the first time at 2 am which feels pretty right, okay

this is a very pretty thing

wasn't going to check this out before the 9.5, now i am going to check this out

I kind of have to rmde at all the "OMG where in the world did 'Beth/Rest' come from?!?!" comments from critics who, by saying that, admit that they really haven't been paying all that much attention Vernon since For Emma. I mean, if you heard the (pre-Kanye) "Woods" and the Gayngs album, this wouldn't come as that big of a shock.

should we be bringing up green gartside or would that set people's teeth on edge...

Passed by a coworker watching the Colbert appearance and I idly noted Bon I. sitting there surrounded by people doing deliberate handclaps and I was all "Huh."

should we be bringing up green gartside or would that set people's teeth on edge...

When discussing, say, Destroyer, sure. This guy don't know about rhythm.

I prefer the Sean Carey album.

That Allmusic review is an embarrassment.

performance on fallon was kinda O_O -- sorta lol'd at giving his own band the gas face

anyway it made me think of sufjan, altho their recorded music is different in many, many ways

the (second) biggest seller on the billboard charts

Gave this a chance due to normally sane people rating it highly & late Talk Talk comparisons. Still sounds like castratos being murdered. Horrible.

late talk talk comparisons would work if the record ever stopped being exhaustively pretty and relaxed a little.

Sounds like Sting when he needs to poo.

listened to it prob three times riding back and forth to the beach today--there is some really cool stuff going on and a lot of subtle stuff i probably missed because i wasn't cranking it--ultimately i think i'll always want to like this guy more than i do (because imo he has a really high not-giving-a-fuck quotient and attaches himself to so many odd endeavors like gayngs and the kanye record) but i could see this being a cool record that i get into to an extent and look back on fondly.

brg30 bringing the heat

Haven't felt the urge to listen again once.

"beth/rest" is playing in starbucks & i'm on the table on my knees holding a lighter up & sobbing

The barista will help you in a minute, sir. There's a line.

"beth/rest" is playing in starbucks & i'm on the table on my knees holding a lighter up & sobbing

oh man I heard this at Starbucks on Friday too.

is that the fake 80s song

the Jack Wagner number, yes.

I wish the tempo was double on all his songs

I bet he ran out of coffee in the woods

Just noticed: the album debuted at #2 last week, with sales of 104,000. (Jill Scott was #1.)

really feelin this album now

just sayin'?

loving this. i havent been paying attention to the lyrics so much as this really has a nice mood. "beth/rest" is great, like A-Ha on valium.

scratch that "beth/rest" reminds me more of bruce hornsby than a-ha

I think that might be why I like Active Child much more when it comes to the a-ha deal.

Unfortunately I googled the lyrics to "Beth/Rest."

bought this on friday and listened to it out at the coast over the weekend. pretty and hypnotic, but it never quite reaches any destination for me. reminds me a bit of a triple-tracked peter gabriel

The opener blew me away straight off. The rest of the album sounded like shit.
Played it again.
Then again.
Then got it.

Fucking beauty. Seriously great.

Halocene is almost as good as Flipper's "The Way of the World"

Red House Painter

There's a huge picture of this guy on a Bushmills billboard outside of my house, and it creeps me out a lot. I like the guy and everything, but it's pretty sleazy.

I tried to Google image search it, but I couldn't find it. Here's another one, though:

http://sidewalkhustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Bushmills-Since-Way-Back-Bon-Iver.jpeg

At least in the one in my neighborhood, he's wearing a Jagjaguar shirt and giving those guys some exposure.

He probably made a decent chunk of change off that Kanye album, no?

I like this second record just fine, but dude sucked the life out of the new Kathleen Edwards.

you already heard new kathleen edwards?? i thought it doesn't come out till jan?

Real ugly ad. Lazy copyrwiting and bad art direction overall. It doesn't seem like it took them longer than an hour to arrange it.