Bon Iver Announces New Album; Streams New Songs

2016 is THE year in music.

 

AOTY

 

the album performance at eaux claires was spectacular. 8 (circle) is a favorite and the closing track was printed in the eaux claires booklet to sing along with like a church hymn. they closed the set with beth/rest featuring bruce hornsby. truly incredible.

 

Huh, I'm totally hating these two tracks. I feel like there's got to be a learning curve though.

 

Your Brady icon isn't making this comment any better. (kidding but hopefully you'll like the rest of the album!)

 

I am interested.

 

This sounds heavily influenced by The Books and that's a great thing.

 

Surprised myself as to how much I'm digging these two tracks. Definitely looking forward to this one.

 

Vernon seems to have been moving towards an abstract electronic sound for a few years now. I'm really digging these two tracks, and I'm not quite sure if it's because I actually like the music, or if it's just new Bon Iver and I'll like anything they do.

 

First track is good. Not very into the second one, but I have faith Vernon will make another fantastic record. Going to miss his folk days, though.

 

Not huge on the first song (10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄), but 22 was pretty cool. I could listen to Justin sing absolutely anything.

 

Well, the songs are definitely an interesting development..excited for the album!

 

Weird so far, but I love his voice so much

 

The books! Totally forgot about that group! Listened to them back in college circa 2006.

What was that song they had with the voiceover of a guy talking about the teachings of Ghandi? I can't find it on Spotify.

Also, are we going to find out that any of this was influenced/produced by Kanye in anyway? Seems like he is going practically full autotune. Not complaining. Just curious.

 

Strange/interesting songs, titles, and artwork. This will be great.

 

Man I love Justin Vernon.

 

Absolutely love 22. I always found his folk sound to be boring so Im really interested in this.

 

Haha, thanks! I hope it's not so reminiscent of Kid A like these two songs are.

 

"fuckified"

1st song is ok, think I'd prefer it if the percussion was 'cleaned up' slightly (it sounds like if you turned the 'bitcrusher' effect on in Garageband in 2008 lol). 2nd song is good, but I just love his voice regardless. It has such an immense softness to it, if that makes sense? Powerfully soft? IDK; someone who's good with words please sum it up for me! lol

 

So... can anyone tell me what a poly-fi recording is? I googled it but the top link was to the description above!

 

Can someone please explain to me if these are new songs or remixes of the new songs?! I haven't seen anyone or anywhere say much or anything about the fact they would appear to be remixes of some kind..

 

I hadn't heard the phrase used either but I'm going to guess its where lo-fi meets hi-fi. So mixing super modern recording techniques with the sorts of recording techniques from the first album.

 

not a Kid A fan?? That's my favorite Radiohead release

 

It's not as you go further into the album.