the (second) Bon Iver album

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.

Also you kind of suck at google she got shakes. If you type 'bon iver bushmills' the first images are the ones you mention:

http://www.ellenwood-ep.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Bushmills.jpg

http://jagjaguwar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BonIverBanner1.jpg

I use Ask Jeeves

The founders of Bushmills developed a recipe that lasts. We hope to do the same with our music.

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.