Bon Iver, With Tree

Whoa! Jagjaguwar officially announced June 21 for the new Bon Iver album release along with a track list and an essay on the album by – get this – Michael Perry. As far as we can tell, it's called "Bon Iver, Bon Iver". Read the PR and you'll see what we mean. From said text ...

 

Bon Iver, Bon Iver

“Bon Iver is often equated with just me,” says Vernon, “but you are who surrounds you, and for Bon Iver, Bon Iver I wanted to invite those voices as musical catalysts.” Thus on the track “Beth/Rest” and throughout the album, we hear the pedal steel of Greg Leisz (Lucinda Williams, Bill Frisell), the uniquely layered low end of Colin Stetson’s (Tom Waits, Arcade Fire) saxophones, the riffing of Mike Lewis’ (Happy Apple, Andrew Bird) altos and tenors, and the lush horns of C.J. Camerieri (Rufus Wainwright, Sufjan Stevens). Bon Iver regulars Sean Carey, Mike Noyce and Matt McCaughan contributed vocals, drums and production, Rob Moose (Antony and the Johnsons, The National) helped with arranging and added strings, and fellow members of Volcano Choir, Jim Schoenecker and Tom Wincek provided processing.

So there you go. Track List, Track List:

Side A:
  Perth
  Minnesota, WI
  Holocene
  Towers
  Michicant

Side B:
  Hinnom, TX
  Wash.
  Calgary
  Lisbon, OH
  Beth/Rest

ALSO: We'll have the album available at The Local Store, so don't go all nutty and purchase your very own copy from a major web-based product distribution conglomerate, or anything rash like that. We don’t know about you, but we like to buy albums by locally-based international music phenomena from local shops.