the (second) Bon Iver album

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.

(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.