Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) gathered his Wisconsin friends from the Collections of Colonies of Bees to make an unconventional, meandering record of guitar strings, choir swells, and electronic bleeps. On the aptly-titled Unmap, the music slowly unwinds and reveals a placeless beauty, somewhere in the void, where matter and sound are still taking shape, still fighting to combine with the emerging topography. The album cover implies a group of ancient, mysterious musicians and some sort of north woods escapism calling for large trees, heavy snows, endless nights, and gospel gatherings.
The D Man is always looking for the right music to capture the given mood of life's myriad moments with their varied emotional rhythms. While driving home on a clear Halloween night, with an ever-so-close full moon, Volcano Choir offered the perfect accompianment. The opening sequence is perhaps the record's strongest passage. Check out opener "Husks and Shells," second track "Seeplymouth," and the video for the vivid "Island, IS."
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