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Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:16 AM PDT
 Photo by Cameron Wittig Whether he was tossing back some brewskis with the Shouting Matches, in it during the Yeezus sessions, trading notes with Alicia Keys, or working with Kathleen Edwards, Justin Vernon has worked very hard to prove he's having too much fun with his friends to work on a third Bon Iver album, and the new Volcano Choir album, Repave (out out September 3 in the U.S. and September 2 internationally via Jagjaguwar), drives that point home. 2009's Unmap was a repository for the most stoned musical ideas of Vernon and his collaborators from Collections of Colonies of Bees. "Comrade", the second single from Repave, isn't just a callback to Bon Iver's exploratory, ornately orchestrated hymns-- it's an accidental and logical extension of them. |
