the (second) Bon Iver album

xpost I don't know when the Edwards comes out, exactly, but I've heard it and have it. It represents a pretty big change, I think, maybe not for the better but I bet better for her.

I guess I should give up my dream of Asking for Flowers Pt. 2

Ew, that ad. Just hangin' with my bros, makin' some music, drinkin' some Bushmills.

I also like the guy a lot though. Not quite my favourite album of the year but it's the one I play when I can't think of what to put on.

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

ok waht. I had no idea he was involved -- or why. He's got more to learn from her.

They are a couple now (she divorced her longtime ... guitarist?). He produces, collaborates and plays a bunch of stuff. And Norah Jones is on the record, too.

The songwriting and melodies are fine. Some of the production choices in regards to mixing levels for certain tracks, what sounds to use and arrangement, seem really random and jarring to me.

guys I don't know if you heard but it's hard to make a living selling records these days

just fyi

It represents a pretty big change, I think, maybe not for the better but I bet better for her.

Of course aero. I have an aesthetic gripe about that particular ad not an ethical one with Justin taking the money. There are good ads and bad ads.

this album is really fucking good

i will be listening to it a lot this winter

guys I don't know if you heard but it's hard to make a living selling records these days

Sure, fine, fair enough, but big money booze strikes me as pretty gnarly to get in bed with. Bushmills' parent company does some pretty heinous lobbying. Not everybody's gotta be Fugazi, but sheesh.

Besides - he seems to be doing just fine selling records (and selling out multi-night stands at very big venues) all over the place.

(I know, it's all pretty tiresome to get into. This one just bummed me out a little bit, between the gross press release speak, the bro-out vibe, and the fact that admittedly this time it's a dude I kind of like).

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

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didn't he give "those guys" some exposure when he released his very successful albums on jagjaguwar?

"kanye told me, go 'head change ya style up - and if they hate then let 'em hate and watch the money pile up"

Yeah, I suppose so. I guess I thought it was a cool gesture, since I've always thought of it as a little American label, and seeing it on a huge billboard by the A4 motorway is pretty insane. (He's on a different label here in the UK, btw).
Wait, why did you put "those guys" in quotes?

i guess it just read weird, like that's his label, your post made it seemed like he was coming down off the mountain to give some little label props...

i guess it's probably pretty small, but i guess these days it doesn't much matter.

anyway i didn't mean to phrase it unduly snarky, but i guess i think of him as the big jagjaguwar artist (rip the wilderness)

Ah, I see - I didn't mean it that way. I suppose I admire 'label pride,' though I have no idea what that is based on and can come up with no examples outside of the Nick Lowe tune! Maybe Tad wearing the Sub Pop "Loser" tee? (Reaching...)
He's on 4AD here.

I heard a little voice it said 'fuck you' it was little

http://awards.music.yahoo.com/blog/158-indie-band-bon-iver-turns-down-offer-to-perform-at-the-grammys

Turning down the grammys eh.

http://vimeo.com/36365467

Is that what goes on in those "cool" churches?

http://vimeo.com/36365467

Nothing like religion to ruin a perfectly good song; although it would've been nice to see a pit form when they kicked it into "Oh, Night Divine".

http://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/s-carey-two-angles

!

http://boniverotica.tumblr.com/

Bizarre S Carey packaging question: the CD packaging looks like it has space for two things - a CD and a booklet, I suppose; possibly two CDs - should it come with a booklet or is it just a packaging quirk?

Bon Iver: Band to Release First Album in 5 Years, Titled '22, A Million'

read this as they announced they would release the album in 5 years

So, I'm the guy who's never liked Bon Iver, but who thinks the two new tracks sound pretty brilliant.

that tumble linked above is pretty hilar.

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lmao at that tracklist, did he just discover Aphex Twin?

The two tracks I've heard really are v good.

Lucid Vanguard started as a music sharing process between Karl Remus and Warren Thomas Fenzi. Feeding and flowing off each other, they share many aspects of the songwriting process. To bracket them in one genre is to do them a disservice. Thoughtful vocals infused with neo-soul, world music and R&B beats. Borrowing from the method of Bon Iver and the dissolving of the ego that often comes with the singer/songwriter denotations, this band seeks a higher musical consciousness through what they create. What can be said for sure is that what Lucid Vanguard has released so far gives us a taste of the beautiful future for sound they are currently crafting.

https://tractsofrevolution.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/ego-3.jpg

Could sure go for some fried eggs right now.

hang on to your eggo

a bunch of my friends played sax on this.

good stuff? they are playing in st. paul soon

haven't heard it yet (i don't think they have either), nor are they in the touring band. sounds like the recording was a cool experience though.

I looked at the trackless, and it sounds like there's a bunch of sax on it. The whole project seems weird, but I love it so far, and I did not expect that.

Ahh so Justin finally listened to that copy of Age of Adz he had lying around

eh it's not suprising given who his musician friends are in the twin cities

Ahh so Justin finally listened to that copy of Age of Adz he had lying around

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this is so otm lol
i like these songs a lot. never listened to the 2011 record. haven't really paid attention since for emma, this new shit is wild, didn't really see it coming at all...
http://pitchfork.com/news/67876-bon-iver-share-new-song-33-god-listen/

33 God is pretty good. the main things different from the last album are the programmed drums & samples floating about. the 80s soft rock at the core of these are basically what the last album was

wow this is stunning

Not my thing, these two new tracks. Perhaps in the context of an album I'll enjoy them more. I remember loving the first single off the s/t and then disliking the record a great deal, so heh, who knows.

Second LP left me completely cold; two listens thru the new one and I'm utterly blown away. One of the freshest approaches to music I've heard in some time.

this is pretty good

i could do without some of the data decay stuff tho

This seemed really impressive on my first few listens. Some of the grotesquely over-Auto-Tuned stuff is hard for me to stomach, though. I feel like he's really driven that aesthetic into the ground.

this is like when you download some gimmicky Waves Audio plugin demo and dick around making junk sound all goofy until it runs out