
Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago was one of last year's most lauded releases. And rightly so! It was a heart-rending recording. Holed up in a cabin in wintry Wisconsin, Justin Vernon penned some of the loveliest misery-tinged, affecting folk songs of 2008, perhaps encouraging singer-songwriters to take to the woods and hibernate. Currently touring Australia, Bon Iver is poised to release Blood Bank on Jagjaguwar on January 20. Featuring Vernon, Mike Noyce and Sean Carey, the four-song EP scratches at the door of For Emma . [...]