Volcano Choir, Justin Vernon's collaborative project with state-mates Collections Of Colonies Of Bees, introduced itself with the striking "Island, IS," a track we noted "released Vernon's falsetto from its plaintively strummed trappings, pairing it instead with a hypnotic world of COCOB's loops, synths, percussion, aural ephemera." Still, as a first shot from the "experimental" project, it read first and foremost as a "song." Opposite that is the album-closing "Youlogy," a freer flowing piec...
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Volcano Choir, Justin Vernon's collaborative project with state-mates Collections Of Colonies Of Bees, introduced itself with the striking "Island, IS," a track we not... more info