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)