{"id":15257,"date":"2019-07-12T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2019-07-18T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:02:37","slug":"bon-iver-announce-new-album-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/bon-iver-announce-new-album-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon Iver announces new album, releases two more songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/bon-iver-two-new-songs\/\">two new songs<\/a> last month, Justin Vernon is making it official: There\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/11\/740644172\/bon-iver-announces-a-new-album-releases-another-pair-of-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new Bon Iver album<\/a> on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>The Eau Claire-based \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.avclub.com\/bon-iver-now-an-amorphous-collective-shares-new-son-1835204959?rev=1559579273754&amp;utm_content=Main&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=SocialMarketing&amp;utm_campaign=SF&amp;fbclid=IwAR12PG3KDGN10ZEfzsUEQxFQkZaA0bpk8FSD_7JGmQmwUDo1mSQg1fYGcPw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amorphous collective<\/a>\u201d will release its fourth album, <em>i,i<\/em>, on Aug. 30. Yep, Vernon is continuing to give copy editors nightmares. <em>i,i<\/em> has a rap album amount of features on it, too. Its star-studded cast includes Bruce Hornsby, James Blake and The National\u2019s Bryce and Aaron Dessner. Both Dessners!<\/p>\n<p>Bon Iver has also released two more new tracks from the album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cJelmore\u201d<\/strong> is a jarring mix of electronics that would sound kinda spooky without Vernon\u2019s soulful vocals. The lurching \u2014 literally \u2014 lyric video just goes to drive that dichotomy home. It finds humanity in abstract.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bon Iver - Jelmore - Official Lyric Video\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnDDghFYEGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p>And <strong>\u201cFaith\u201d<\/strong> sounds fucking <em>huge<\/em>. Perhaps more than any Bon Iver song, \u201cFaith\u201d seems to have been engineered to fill giant arenas, a level of popularity that Vernon has flirted with since first popping up on a Kanye West album. And speaking of \u2019Ye and his penchant for collabs, <a href=\"https:\/\/boniver.org\/news\/2019\/new-album-ii-out-august-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both new songs feature<\/a> (at risk of sounding like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A94ktjmgZvM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stefon<\/a>): Buddy Ross, Francis Starlite, Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak, Camilla Stavely-Taylor of The Staves, a guy whose actual name is Rob Moose, and The Brooklyn Youth Chorus with Bryce Dessner. (Both Dessners!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bon Iver - Faith - Official Lyric Video\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wU-s_Zxv_MQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaith\u201d makes much more obvious use of its supporting cast than \u201cJelmore,\u201d which partly why it\u2019s the stronger of the two. Of the four new songs we\u2019ve heard from Bon Iver so far, the strongest ones are clear-cut collaborations. With <em>i,i<\/em>, Vernon and his amorphous collective are reintroducing Bon Iver as Justin Vernon\u2019s <em>Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly: Both Dessners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After releasing two new songs last month, Justin Vernon is making it official: There\u2019s a new Bon Iver album on the horizon. 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