New Volcano Choir (Bon Iver + Collections Of Colonies Of Bees) - "Island, IS"

For this new project with what he's called his "favorite band" -- fellow Wisconsites and Outsiders faves Collections Of Colonies Of Bees -- Justin Vernon does much to demystify and escape the loner-folkie backwoods aesthetic/mythology that's colored his Bon Iver material to date. (Occasional dip into auto-tune aside.) The project's called Volcano Choir, and certainly its first single "Island, IS" still pulses with a warm intimacy -- this is just what happens when Vernon vocalizes -- but here Jus...

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