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Justin Vernon of Bon Iver teams up with Collection of Colonies of Bees, a band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in his side project, Volcano Choir. “Youlogy,” the second song of this collaboration (first being “Island, IS”) can be described as an experiment of sounds coming from all angles.
It starts off peaceful and slow with Vernon’s angelic voice (I’d say it can be compared to the sounds of Southern hymns). But listeners beware! Although you may feel at ease after you hit play, within a minute, slamming percussions disturb the serene rhythms.
If you are driving down the street people are not honking at you from every which direction, its just the song. So, I advise you, listen with caution: there are sudden jolts of hell in the churchy feel of the song that may leave you with coffee on your shirt or worse… in a car crash.
The entire Volcano Choir album, Unmap, is out September 22. Listen to “Youlogy” here
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Tags: Bon Iver, Volcano Choir
Is that for real? I really enjoy Bon Iver, but that was one of the worst songs that I’ve ever heard.
and you enjoyed Bon Iver? haha.
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@Leigh: Did you even listen to song? The lyrics?
you could take the world’s greatest poetry and put it to music, but if it sounds like that, then yeah, it’s f*cking awful.
that was like the world’s worst funeral dirge.
Yeah but they don’t call Volcano Choir “experimental” for nothing
if you don’t like it, don’t listen and let us music-lovers enjoy it.
Everyone who leaves negative comments about this song, please write something more affecting. Listen to Justin Vernon’s solo work or DeYarmond Edison and you’ll see that this is all based on pain. But real pain, not that pussy pain everyone says they feel when they breakup with their girlfriend. Pain that sits so deep inside a person that they can’t feel anything else. Vernon brings that human experience to an accessible state…music. This song personifies death, heartbreak, sadness and loneliness. Sorry Kanye didn’t make the beat…