Bon Iver BLOOD BANK

Bon Iver BLOOD BANKOn 2009 EP BLOOD BANK, Bon Iver aka Justin Vernon covers territory similar to that of his 2007 debut, EMMA, FOREVER AGO, without repeating himself, and instead builds on the stark sound of that album to achieve a warmer, if not fuzzier, effect. On the brooding title cut, Vernon forgoes a chorus in favor of hushed guitar squalls and the swelling, affecting sentiment of the lyric, which maps out places from which to escape the winter wind and cold. On

Format Detail: 2LP

The majority of the album's tracks aren't in the standard 4/4 time signature that most contemporary dance music follows

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" and the Gwen Stefani duet "My Heart Is Open

Adam Widoff (guitar)

Parts of "Pale Salt Seam" were recorded live at the Ironmongers Row Baths on 2nd March 2013

this hits its stride in the second half

" with its mariachi-flavored horns

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'60s-era plaything

nearly bursting through the grooves on the expansive and mind-blowing seven minute rendition of “Colors

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