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- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative, Rock
- Label: Jagjaguwar / SC Distribution
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon makes some new friends and departs the cabin
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We Say...
Steadfast devotees of Bon Iver's soft, languorous folk songs will be tempted to preemptively decry Volcano Choir, a longstanding collaboration between Justin Vernon and fellow Wisconsinites Collections of Colonies of Bees, as an oddball lark: warped and warbly, the group's debut LP, Unmap, is unfamiliar ground, a collection of rich, glistening sound assemblages with loads of moving parts and nary a broken heart.
For an artist so frequently mythologized as "organic" (He recorded in a cabin in the woods! In deep, dark winter!), it's not particularly surprising that Vernon is itching to indulge other urges; Unmap builds on the trembling falsetto and studio diddling Vernon hinted at on Bon Iver's Blood Bank EP, and its shifting structures and layered, occasionally nonsensical vocals — less literal declarations than sounds — reveal an affinity for the cacophonous. Collections of Colonies of Bees, known for its propulsive, instrumental dirges, provides a compelling counterpoint to Vernon's airy vocals — on "Island, Is," Vernon's hoots and whispers are balanced by synthesizer whirls and testy drums, and that give-and-take is enough to keep anyone frozen in their headphones. Unmap isn't a folk record in any traditional sense, but it's no less evocative, and no less moving.
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| 01. |  |
Husks And Shells |
3:44 |
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| 02. | |
Seeplymouth |
6:44 |
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| 03. | |
Island, IS |
4:09 |
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| 04. | |
Dote |
2:50 |
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| 05. | |
And Gather |
2:18 |
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| 06. | |
Mbira In The Morass |
3:51 |
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| 07. | |
Cool Knowledge |
1:08 |
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| 08. | |
Still |
6:56 |
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| 09. | |
Youlogy |
3:37 |
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09 Total Tracks, 35:17 Total Length
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