LISTEN: Bon Iver Play Two New Songs at Eaux Claires Festival

Justin Vernon’s curated fest in Wisconsin gets the debut of the first new Bon Iver material since 2011.
LISTEN: Bon Iver Play Two New Songs at Eaux Claires Festival

Justin Vernon’s curated fest in Wisconsin gets the debut of the first new Bon Iver material since 2011.

Words: FLOOD Staff

photo by D.L. Anderson

July 20, 2015

Bon Iver. Justin Vernon. Credit D.L. Anderson

Beth has rested. This weekend, at the inaugural Eaux Claires Festival in—you guessed it—Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Bon Iver played two new, untitled songs. The premieres come just a couple of weeks after we all got click-baited into believing that the group would potentially not be making any new music at all. “As far as putting a record together, I don’t really know what’s happening,” Vernon told Grantland’s Steven Hyden. For what it’s worth, he also told Hyden that he had been “trying to collect […] real moments, [and] put them in a pot and serve them up.” Consider this weekend one of those moments.

The new tracks lean more heavily toward the gauzy, synth-driven material of 2011’s Bon Iver than they do the cabin-barren folk of 2007’s For Emma, Forever Ago. Whether or not Vernon is planning to record the songs remains unknown, but for now, you can give them both a listen below.

(via Vulture)