the Bon Iver album

YEAH I really liked Skinny Love, it was pretty soulful but it gets sort of irritating near the end. Some of his other songs (which I forget) are a bit hit and miss, he's got a good ear for sort of old bluesey Southern sound but eh...He's really on point with SL tho. Definitely

There's some talk of this album in the Rolling Indie thread, which I cannot find on search for some reason.

Anyway, yeah, agreed - when it's pretty, it's goosebumps-y. "Flume" is incredible, and I think his lyrics can be just weird enough to make that wintery-cabin-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-stuff from all the album's press sound convincing (and haunting). ("I wear my garment so it shows... gluey feathers on the flume").

I saw him do a big in-store a month or so ago (at Rough Trade off Brick Lane) which was amazing. His band is subtle, but they're all deceptively good musicians. They played a couple of songs plugged in, and then the main dude said something like "if this isn't too precious or whatever, I think it'd be better if we kind of did this sitting on the floor and acoustic and all that," and they did the rest of the songs with just a strummed acoustic and 3-part harmonies. It was really nice.

how precious

just watched the letterman performance, i love that it's a dude with his acoustic guitar + three singing drummers (kinda lame that they all play the same part though).

the forthcoming Bloodbank e.p. is fantastic, better than the album esp. 'the woods'. its like an old folk song with just his voice put thru autotune.

this album is good i think

Would I be considered a degenerate for not really enjoying this as much as everyone else?

Though Bloodbank is really good.

Would I be considered a degenerate for not really enjoying this as much as everyone else?
No, that makes you a better person.

I don't understand what's appealing about facile, one-chord-and-a-half aimless guitar jangling with a quasi castrato singing on top. Awful.

i love Bon Iver!

more live i've boner

more like i've boner

i'm amazed by how much emotion can be conveyed in the song woods where he does nothing but sing the same line over and over and just sing with hardly and other elements. i like it.

so is russ feingold miniature or is bon iver gigantic?

http://www.russfeingold.org/blog/russfeingold_justinvernon.jpg

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_tall_is_Russ_Feingold

if Feingold becomes president someday, will Bon Iver be the new Beard Czar ? since they are bros and all.

Here's a little 50-second clip of what's presumably music from the new album: http://vimeo.com/22055577

And full single out today -- liked it, which I didn't fully expect to.

Inoculated by Gayngs?

wow ned, a step towards beardo.

Probably because there were way more keyboards than guitars.

Beard Raggett

Sounds like The Knife to me

P_te_ _abrie__

http://boniverotica.tumblr.com/page/4

Love this

I’m clicking with the new album in a sad weekend morning kind of way