The new Bon Iver EP, Blood Bank, is about what you would expect--dark, poetic, starkly beautiful, perfect winter music. I like what the critic at Pitchfork wrote about the first line of the title track--"I met you at the blood bank/we were looking at the bags"--about how that is the kind of line an aspiring novelist spends his career searching for. This guy has moments like that throughout, but in particular in that song, taking the idea of our blood hanging in rows of bags, how they are all the same color, and makes it into a meditation on identiy. I saw Bon Iver in December at Town Hall and he's got such an adoring following and he is a funny, gawky down-to-earth guy from Wisconsin who happens to write killer songs. DC, you will like it because he messes around auto-tunes on his voice, which is mainly found in mainstream hip-hop, your fav genre.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Blood Bank
The new Bon Iver EP, Blood Bank, is about what you would expect--dark, poetic, starkly beautiful, perfect winter music. I like what the critic at Pitchfork wrote about the first line of the title track--"I met you at the blood bank/we were looking at the bags"--about how that is the kind of line an aspiring novelist spends his career searching for. This guy has moments like that throughout, but in particular in that song, taking the idea of our blood hanging in rows of bags, how they are all the same color, and makes it into a meditation on identiy. I saw Bon Iver in December at Town Hall and he's got such an adoring following and he is a funny, gawky down-to-earth guy from Wisconsin who happens to write killer songs. DC, you will like it because he messes around auto-tunes on his voice, which is mainly found in mainstream hip-hop, your fav genre.
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I was at that town hall show - it was downright wonderful. and the sing-a-long outro to the wolves was inspired. most of all i was curious to learn if he spoke like an ordinary guy, and he does.
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