Bon Iver just announced that they’ll be releasing a new EP, entitled “Blood Bank”, on January 20 in Canada and the U.S. I was lucky enough to catch Bon Iver play two of the EP’s tracks this past summer in New York and I have to admit that I wasn’t immediately blown away. A friend of mine described the tracks as sounding very Coldplay-ish. Regretfully, I think that’s a pretty accurate statement. I’m sure that they’ll begin to grow on me once I accept the fact that Justin Vernon’s heart can’t stay broken forever. It can’t be easy to try and write a followup to something like “For Emma, Forever Ago”, so I’ll cut him some slack until the next LP.
The tracklisting for “Blood Bank” is as follows:
- Blood Bank
- Beach Baby (really Bon Iver?)
- Babys
- Woods
In the meantime, check out an early recording called Hazelton. It was written by Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon before the band found any kind of success. I kind of love it.
(Also, the last two weeks of class are absolutely the hardest)
