Almost six months after the release of its sophomore effort, Bon Iver is reissuing chart topper and critics’ darling Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar) as a digital-only deluxe edition. What’s so deluxe about this album the second time around, you ask? Custom-made visual accompaniments to each and every song, that’s what. Not quite music videos and not quite your iTunes visualizer, these videos are “meant to be consumed as a visual extension of the music,” says the band. Highfalutin’ language aside, we have to admit that the videos are gorgeous, so consume away, friends. Start with the clip for “Perth” below.
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Buckner: Sometimes, I hook up two stereos somewhere in the house. Over the years I’ve been collecting recordings of writers reading their own works; the likes of E. E. Cummings, Robert Creeley, Bukowski’s kitchen recordings, Brion Gysin, Kenneth Rexroth (my favorite quote by him being “an entomologist is not a bug”), Robinson Jeffers, etc., or occasionally lectures by Zinn or Chomsky. I put one of these on one stereo, then, on another (usually both are boombox-ish sort of affairs), I cue up older minimalist kind of stuff like Glenn Branca, Tony Conrad with Faust or John Cale, Cage, Feldman, Rhys Chatham, Pauline Oliveros (who has a studio in Kingston, N.Y.) or more recent flame-carriers like Vibracathedral Orchestra, Skullflower or Pelt (R.I.P. Jack Rose). Once in a while, I sway into various horror-film collections for a little drama. Now, with my stereo-ed stereos set up, I turn each one on. Each time I do this, the words and music never hit each other the same way; there is no timing involved. Even with the same combo of sounds, it never seems like the same performance; the music always manipulates the words in a different way. It’s a simultaneous palate cleanser and vocabulary lifter. Good, clean fun for a toxic afternoon.