ALL SUITED UP. While DeYarmond Edison's lineup evolved, the band's final form featured, from left to right, Joe Westerlund, Justin Vernon, Brad Cook, and Phil Cook. (Photo by John Cranford)

What are being called “two of DeYarmond Edison’s best and final songs”are now available on streaming platforms as a preview of a boxed set that will drop Aug. 18.

The songs, “Epoch” and “Song for a Lover (of Long Ago),” were released today on all digital platforms. Originally unveiled quietly on MySpace way back in 2006, the tunes are part of a treasure trove of material that will be part of a huge box set also titled Epoch. The collection will include five LPs and four CDs of early work by future Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and bandmates Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Joe Westerlund, and others.

DeYarmond Edison was born in Eau Claire in the early 2000s, relocated to North Carolina in 2005, and split up the following year. The breakup famously led Vernon to create the Grammy-winning Bon Iver, while the Cooks and Westerlund formed Megafaun. The evolution of the band, the numerous musicians it included, and their impact on the scene in Eau Claire and beyond, will be the subject of a 114-page biography that will be part of the box set, which will be released by indie record label Jagjaguwar.

The full collection is available for preorder in advance for the Aug. 18 release date. Check out the newly released songs on various digital platforms here or watch the lyric video below:

Read the full media release about the single below:

Two of DeYarmond Edison's Best & Final Songs Unearthed as Latest Preview of Forthcoming Box Set: "Epoch" b/w "Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)"

Epoch Out August 18th on Jagjaguwar, Telling The
5-LP, 4-CD & 114-Page Story of The Band That Birthed Bon Iver, Megafaun & Many More

Monumental Collection Features Dozens of Previously Unreleased Recordings From Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Justin Vernon & Joe Westerlund, Unique Symbology, In-Depth Interviews & Complete Biography by Executive Producer Grayson Haver Currin

Today, nearly 17 years after a haphazard release on MySpace, two of DeYarmond Edison's best and most promising pieces of music are now available on all digital platforms: "Epoch" b/w "Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)." As the title track of a monumental new box set out August 18th on Jagjaguwar, "Epoch" is as close as band members and childhood friends Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Justin Vernon and Joe Westerlund ever came to capturing the vision of what DeYarmond Edison might have become. It is also, in the end, what broke them apart at the height of their collective power in August 2006. Just 12 months after moving from Wisconsin to their adopted home of Raleigh, NC – seeking new inspiration and an opportunity to reinvent themselves as a collective, four-piece unit – the competing impulses and broadening palette of sounds ultimately split them into a pair of more enduring bands, Bon Iver and Megafaun. The result seemed dismal at the time, but "I learned more in that year than I've learned in the decade since," says Justin Vernon.

While DeYarmond Edison's sudden implosion unequivocally birthed two of the most singular and venerated groups of their generation – as well as projects like Gayngs, Volcano Choir, the celebrated solo careers of all four members and more – it is far from the beginning or end of the definitive story that will soon be revealed. Through 5 LPs and 4 CDs of music, and a revelatory 114-page biography from journalist and executive producer Grayson Haver Currin, the Epoch box set charts the complete rise and fall of a short-lived but life-changing band, whose impact is essential to understanding so much powerful music and art that has arrived in its wake.

Each of Epoch's LPs and CDs encapsulates a specific era in DeYarmond Edison's complex evolution, with the band dynamics also reflected in a unique language of geometric shapes, symbols and color combinations showcased in the box set's artwork and accompanying visuals. "Epoch" and "Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)" are part of Epoch, etc., recorded between July 2005-July 2006 while the band was sorting through dozens of different ideas, digging deeper into the musical disciplines they each individually loved, and hosting a transformative monthly residency at the Bickett Gallery in Raleigh. Epoch begins, however, with All of Us Free. Starting at the end of the 20th Century in Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley, the LP excavates the work of a high school-aged, funk-rock-reggae-jazz group called Mount Vernon, as well as turning points like "As Long As I Can Go" and more that a primitive DeYarmond Edison tracked for their debut album in the nude at a local Presbyterian church.

DeYarmond Edison's second studio album, Silent Signs, has been remastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time as part of Epoch. Justin Vernon's solo effort hazeltons also makes up one of Epoch's five LPs, foreshadowing future Bon Iver breakthroughs with songs such as "Holocene"-precursor "hazelton" and other ideas that would be explored on For Emma, Forever Ago and beyond. Where We Belong combines tapes from the very first Megafaun rehearsal, different DeYarmond Edison reunions, and other buried treasures that came after the band's dissolution, and That Was Then – the four-CD component of Epoch – recovers live performances from both the Bickett Gallery residency and a triumphant 2006 show at Wisconsin's Mabel Tainter theater.

Across its 83 unearthed recordings and 60,000-word tome, Epoch serves as a vulnerable testament to the magic that can happen when no one is looking, when all that imagination and innovation require are a cheap house and the drive to reshape your world, together. It is a tale of small-town transcendence, coming of age and collective ambition, and for more of the story, subscribe to the DeYarmond Edison newsletter for exclusive updates and excerpts: HERE

Epoch Tracklist

LP1 - All of Us Free

Mount Vernon - We Can Look Up
Mount Vernon - Morning
Phil Cook & Justin Vernon - Feel the Light
Justin Vernon - Breathe
DeYarmond Edison - The Lake
DeYarmond Edison - Dusty Road, So Kind
DeYarmond Edison - As Long as I Can Go
Justin Vernon - Right Down There in Your Tributary
DeYarmond Edison - The Orient

LP2 - Silent Signs

DeYarmond Edison - Lift
DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs
DeYarmond Edison - Heroin(e)
DeYarmond Edison - Love Long Gone
DeYarmond Edison - First Impression
DeYarmond Edison - Bones
DeYarmond Edison - Heart for Hire
DeYarmond Edison - Dead Anchor
DeYarmond Edison - Ragstock
DeYarmond Edison - We
DeYarmond Edison - Dash
DeYarmond Edison - Time to Know

LP3 - Epoch, etc.

DeYarmond Edison - Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)
DeYarmond Edison - Epoch
DeYarmond Edison - Baby Done Got Your Number
DeYarmond Edison - Brief Scene
DeYarmond Edison - Where We Belong
DeYarmond Edison - Red Shoes
DeYarmond Edison - Heroin(e)

LP4 - hazeltons

Justin Vernon - hazelton
Justin Vernon - frail sail
Justin Vernon - game night
Justin Vernon - easy
Justin Vernon - liner
Justin Vernon - song for a lover (of long ago)
Justin Vernon - hannah, my ophelia

LP5 - Where We Belong

Justin Vernon - Look Down That Long, Lonesome Road
Justin Vernon - Handwriting on the Wall
Ticonderoga (feat. Justin Vernon) - Hands Up
Justin Vernon - Funeral Lights
Megafaun - Lazy Suicide (Edit)
Megafaun (feat. Justin Vernon) - Carolina Days
Megafaun (feat. Justin Vernon, Frazey Ford + Fight the Big Bull) - Trials, Troubles, Tribulations (Live from the Sydney Opera House, June 1, 2013)
Megafaun + Bon Iver - Worried Mind
DeYarmond Edison - Set Me Free

CD1 - That Was Then - North Carolina - The Bickett Gallery Residency

DeYarmond Edison - What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?
DeYarmond Edison - Step It Up and Go
DeYarmond Edison - Phil's Instrumental
DeYarmond Edison - Louis Collins
DeYarmond Edison - Old Dollar Mamie
DeYarmond Edison - Two Scenes
DeYarmond Edison - Sea Legs
DeYarmond Edison - Abel + Cain
DeYarmond Edison - Half Life
DeYarmond Edison - Afro Blue

CD2 - That Was Then - North Carolina - The Bickett Gallery Residency

DeYarmond Edison - Four Keyboard Phase in A
DeYarmond Edison - Cybernetic Meadow
DeYarmond Edison - Paul's Park
DeYarmond Edison - Justin's Phase Piece
DeYarmond Edison - Exercise in Abandonment
DeYarmond Edison - Bones
DeYarmond Edison - I Live The Life I Love (I Love The Life I Live)
DeYarmond Edison - My Beautiful Reward
DeYarmond Edison - A Satisfied Mind
DeYarmond Edison - Come and Go With Me (to That Land)

CD3 - That Was Then - Wisconsin - The Mabel Tainter Concert

DeYarmond Edison - Intro
DeYarmond Edison - I Been Drinking
DeYarmond Edison - Down on the Banks of the Ohio
DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs
DeYarmond Edison - Please Find Me Here
DeYarmond Edison - Abel + Cain
DeYarmond Edison - We
DeYarmond Edison - Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
DeYarmond Edison - Afro Blue

CD4 - That Was Then - Wisconsin - The Mabel Tainter Concert

DeYarmond Edison - Intro
DeYarmond Edison - The Longest Train
DeYarmond Edison - No Depression in Heaven
DeYarmond Edison - Red Shoes
DeYarmond Edison - Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)
DeYarmond Edison - Ain't No More Cane
DeYarmond Edison - easy
DeYarmond Edison - All Tomorrow's Parties
DeYarmond Edison - A Satisfied Mind
DeYarmond Edison - Come and Go With Me (to That Land)