The FADER Issue 64 Podcast MP3
- story THE FADER
- photo Jason Nocito (F64)
For our annual photo special, we focused our sights on issues in contemporary America through the stunning domestic and landscape photographs of Peter van Agtmael and Victoria Sambunaris. And who better to reflect the state of the States than Bon Iver, who’s attained cult fame worldwide but prefers to live in the sleepy Wisconsin town of Eau Claire, and Dam-Funk, who resides in middle class South Central Los Angeles but whose music inspires funk utopias. Hence the roster of our latest issue podcast, including Family Band, Volcano Choir, Dam-Funk, Neon Indian, Kyle Hall, Warpaint and Kurt Vile, represents all corners of the USA’s urban decay and rural ramshackleness—with the exception of Fuck Buttons, whose new album is so galactic we think they might be ambassadors from another universe. Download the whole shebang below, and don’t forget to permanently blogline us since we’ll soon be dropping the entire issue on you in pdf form, for free—because in the immortal words of George Michael, you’ve got to give what you taaaaake.
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posted on Oct 6, 2009 in Homepage Top Spotlight, MP3 / STREAMS tags Dam-Funk, FADER 64, Family Band, Fuck Buttons, kurt vile, Kyle Hall, Neon Indian, Volcano Choir, Warpaint
Video: Volcano Choir, “Island, IS”
- story THE FADER
The video for new Justin Vernon/Bon Iver project, Volcano Choir’s “Island, IS” looks like it was filmed somewhere in Miami or Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and since are both littered with abandoned condos, who can tell the difference between fallen utopias, anyhow? One shot spans late night into an early sunrise, lonely like Vernon’s lyrics that parallel the internal monologues from all-nighters pulled trying to erase personal troubles. The projected light patterns mirror the drum beats and guitar riffs, and coincidentally look a lot like a game of Simon. And those guitars sound like it, too.
Stream: Volcano Choir, Unmap
- story Matthew Schnipper
Honestly, it’s weird that this thread doesn’t say “Stream: Car Talk, Best of the Puzzler” because its NPR that is streaming Bon Iver’s new group Volcano Choir’s Unmap album. We like this new trend of full album streams. “Island, IS,” the album’s first single was so compelling and unlike anything on For Emma, but it was only a track, a test. Maybe the rest of the record would be all sad cabin laments, six acoustic guitars and guy voices. Turns out it isn’t. Not that there aren’t acoustic guitars—there’s plenty—but there’s also backwards stuff, beeping and possibly Auto-Tune. For another of our favorites from Unmap, check out “Still,” a surprisingly enveloping shoegaze moment. And, for the record, we really wanted to make a joke here about Carl Kasell recording Bon Iver’s answering machine message, but couldn’t quite pull it off.
Stream: Volcano Choir Unmap
Volcano Choir, “Island, IS” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Volcano Choir: not that different from Bon Iver! No, just kidding, this is pretty out there in comparison to For Emma, Forever Ago. Justin Vernon’s collaboration with Collections of Colonies of Bees follows the same “torn-down-by-the-world-but-I’m-still-optimistic” road that Vernon has made a mega-career out of, but more inclined to branch off into warm electronic side streets. Has dude been listening to a lot of Prefuse 73? Maybe. But maybe he just got tired of people freaking out about how he chopped his own wood in the forest. Now we can all get super into how he programmed his own songs in ProTools! So rustic.
Download: Volcano Choir, “Island, IS” (via P4K)
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posted on Aug 11, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Bon Iver, Collections of Colonies of Bees, electroic/dance, experimental, psych/folk, rock, Volcano Choir
