Bon Iver - Justin Vernon

[Mecca]

That isn't the conoalias that I remember...

[nyquillyn]

[conoalias]

That isn't the conoalias that I remember...

That guy was an ass

[iceagecoming]

I really like Anais Mitchell's Hadestown on which he features along with Greg? Brown, Ani DiFranco and other people.

I was obsessed with this track for a while:

[conoalias]

I really like Anais Mitchell's Hadestown on which he features along with Greg? Brown, Ani DiFranco and other people.

I was obsessed with this track for a while:

yeah I've listened to that one so many times, great tune

[Norah]

Seriously, the first album has been absolutely destroying me lately. The title track especially.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Seriously, the first album has been absolutely destroying me lately. The title track especially.

I love For Emma so much, i thought it was just ok at first, mostly got stuck on Flume and Skinny Love early on, but when i got to see them at pitchfork in 08 every song on the album was enhanced so much, but none as much as For Emma, and i thought it would fall back down for me because its a pretty catchy song and those get old for me a lot of times, but it just gets me every time.

[Strat]

Good lord. I am perfectly Wine Buzzed right now and listening to S/T on my new system. Vinyl. Holocene is on right now and I would give my left testicle to turn the volume knob up a little bit more right now. Its sounding so good right now. So incredible.

[Strat]

[Strat]

Alright!

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/07/176144654 ... =fb&cc=fmp

ustin Vernon has to feel pressure every time he steps into a recording studio. As the leader of Bon Iver, he's gone 2 for 2, with a classic debut (For Emma, Forever Ago) followed by a lush and fussed-over album (Bon Iver) which won him a pair of Grammys, including one for Best New Artist. No matter his commercial ambitions, however reluctant he is to be viewed as a star, he's a star — and his career moves will be picked over accordingly.

But Vernon also has capital to burn — not to mention favors he'd like to repay, friends whose careers he'd like to boost, and fun he'd like to have. So, a few years after recording a lovely album with his friends in Milwaukee's Collections of Colonies of Bees (under the name Volcano Choir), Vernon returns as part of an agreeably ramshackle, Tom Petty-esque blues-rock trio called The Shouting Matches.

It doesn't even take 10 seconds for The Shouting Matches' debut album, Grownass Man, to present itself as something lighter in spirit than anything by Bon Iver; even before the opening riffs, a mere glance at the cover shows a smiling Justin Vernon, hanging out with his hometown pals. This isn't the stuff of mystery or misery, of yearning, of finding one's voice in a secluded cabin. It's the work of a guy who loves playing music — who's drawn influence from Talk Talk and Bruce Hornsby and many points in between — and saw an opportunity to have a blast on the side with friends he's joined on stage whenever possible.

It's not that there are no stakes at work on Grownass Man — The Shouting Matches will play Coachella this summer, after all — but the trio benefits from a vibe of untethered looseness, even playfulness. Working with once and future bandmates Phil Cook and Brian Moen (the latter of Peter Wolf Crier), Vernon sheds his Bon Iver falsetto to showcase something closer to the deeper voice he employed in his DeYarmond Edison days.

In "Heaven Knows," Vernon gets to work out his raggedy blues moan amid blustery rock that stomps and wails, but Grownass Man eventually works in a bit of the fragility on which its star made his name. "Seven Sisters" sounds for all the world like a lost Tom Petty classic — it's urgent, but with an undercurrent of gorgeousness — while "I'll Be True" locates the tissue connecting The Shouting Matches to its Grammy-winning big brother. It's Bon Iver's tenderness, after all, that gave Vernon the clout to will Grownass Man into being, so he never quite lets it leave his sight entirely.

[solace]

stupid double post.

[solace]

album is pretty fun...

but i'm def sort of disappointed in it based on the EP and other things i'd heard.

still excited for their first proper Twin Cities show soon though

[nyquillyn]

It's a fun record. Miss the falsetto, but still fun.

https://soundcloud.com/antler/avery-hill

[solace]

to be fair, that's how he sang before Bon Iver, but yeah... fun record.

was a little let down by it after the 5 year wait and compared to the EP, but still excited to see them soon

[Jorge]

https://soundcloud.com/antler/avery-hill

I hated pretty much every second of this

[Strat]

I like it. Its easy going. Its exactly what I would want from Justin after Bon Iver. now I can hear his voice without wanting to blow my brains out and cry.

Fun, easy, light and loose summer record....

[Jorge]

To me it sounds vapid and derivative. I feel like there's just nothing there. It's a car commercial jingle.

[Strat]

To me it sounds vapid and derivative. I feel like there's just nothing there. It's a car commercial jingle.

The song or the album?

[nyquillyn]

I'm not in love with it, but I think it's fun. Not something I will listen to often.

And strat, depressing music is the best.

[Jorge]

To me it sounds vapid and derivative. I feel like there's just nothing there. It's a car commercial jingle.

The song or the album?

I was just referring to that one song on the Soundcloud link that t2b posted, I haven't heard the album.