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Released | January 20, 2009 | |||
Recorded | December 2006 – June 2008 | |||
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Genre | Indie folk | |||
Length | 16:54 | |||
Label | Jagjaguwar | |||
Producer | Justin Vernon | |||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AbsolutePunk.net | 91% [1] |
AllMusic | [2] |
The A.V. Club | B+ [3] |
Drowned in Sound | 8/10[4] |
The Observer | (favorable) [5] |
Paste | 85% [6] |
Pitchfork | 7.9/10[7] |
Tonespace 2.5 vst crack. Blood Bank is a 2009 EP by Bon Iver.It was released on January 20, 2009, and features four tracks, three of them recorded for the release. The EP is a follow-up to the band's award-winning debut album For Emma, Forever Ago, self-released in 2007 by Bon Iver frontman and founder Justin Vernon, and re-released in 2008. Oct 09, 2010 This music is meant for preview only. Please purchase the music on iTunes or, even better, at a local record store. This helps support the music industry to keep releasing music. If the music.
Blood Bank is a 2009 EP by Bon Iver. It was released on January 20, 2009,[8] and features four tracks, three of them recorded for the release. The EP is a follow-up to the band's award-winning debut album For Emma, Forever Ago, self-released in 2007 by Bon Iver frontman and founder Justin Vernon, and re-released in 2008.
Information[edit]
The title track was written with the previous album but didn't 'feel right' and was not released.
'Woods' was sampled in Kanye West's single 'Lost in the World' from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and re-recorded as 'Still' by Justin Vernon's side-project, Volcano Choir, for their debut album Unmap. It was featured in a Series 3 episode of Skins.
Jagjaguwar has said the following about the content of the EP:
As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air move. Studiolinked trophies. Like a fire you've been stoking for hours and finally got to sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is frozen solid.
The EP entered the Billboard 200 at No. 16 with 23,000 copies sold. 79 percent of the sales were digital.[9] As of October 2009 it has sold 89,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.[10]
A reissue of the EP with both original songs and live versions of them was released on March 27th 2020.[11]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks are written by Justin Vernon.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'Blood Bank' | 4:45 |
2. | 'Beach Baby' | 2:40 |
3. | 'Babys' | 4:44 |
4. | 'Woods' | 4:45 |
Total length: | 16:54 |
Bon Iver Woods Live
No. | Title | Length |
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5. | 'Blood Bank (Live From Ericsson Globe, Stockholm SE, Oct 31 2018)' | 5:45 |
6. | 'Beach Baby (Live from The Bomb Factory, Dallas TX, Jan 23 2018)' | 3:04 |
7. | 'Babys (Live from Eventim Apollo Hammersmith, London UK, Mar 4 2018)' | 6:21 |
8. | 'Woods (Live from Pitchfork Paris Presented by La Blogothèque, Nov 3 2018)' | 3:27 |
Personnel[edit]
Bon Iver
Autotune during live performances. Additional personnel
- Mark Paulson — nylon guitar (track 3), recording
- Lauren Hudgins — front cover photo
- Ashley Farland — back and inside photos
Charts[edit]
Charts (2009) | Peak[12] |
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Irish Singles Chart | |
UK Indie Chart | |
UK Singles Chart | |
U.S. Billboard 200 |
References[edit]
- ^Parno, Travis. 'Review: Blood Bank EP'. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^Sendra, Tim. Blood Bank at AllMusic. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^Martins, Chris. 'Review: Blood Bank EP'. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^Tudor, Alexander. 'Review: Blood Bank EP'. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^Warren, Emma (18 January 2009). 'Review: Blood Bank EP'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^Enstad, Chris. 'Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP :: Music :: Reviews :: Paste'. Pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^Petrusich, Amanda. 'Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP'. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
- ^'Bon Iver — Blood Bank'. Jagjaguwar. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^Caulfield, Keith (2009-01-28). 'Romance And Indie Rock Hit The Billboard 200'. Billboard. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^https://perpetua.tumblr.com/post/293484776/pitchfork-top-10-albums-in-us-sales
- ^'Bon Iver Announce Blood Bank Reissue'. pitchfork.com. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^Blood Bank UK & Irish chart info from acharts.us
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Review by Tim Sendra
Bon Iver's debut album made a huge splash in 2008, receiving both critical acclaim and near-mainstream popularity as the record fanned out over indie rockers, alt-folk fans, and lovers of quietly emotional and frequently inspiring songs sung by a dude with the voice of an angel. All the adulation was well deserved, because For Emma, Forever Ago is the kind of record that manages to capture a musician's soul and transmit it in a way that truly connects with a large array of listeners. It's an impressive achievement and one that holds up over many listens. Released in 2009, the Blood Bank EP is both a pause for breath for Justin Vernon and a reminder why so many people fell so deeply in love with the record and the sound he created. Recorded over a couple years and in various locations, the EP sounds like outtakes from Emma, but not in a bad way. 'Blood Bank,' with its subtly propulsive drums and idiosyncratic lyrics, would have been one of the album's best moments. The same goes for the more experimental but still beautiful 'Babys,' which features both some gently jarring piano and Vernon's soothing, multi-tracked falsetto. The only stretch Vernon makes here is on the closing 'Woods' -- in a somewhat bold move, he embraces Auto-Tune and warps his vocals into almost unrecognizable shapes. Starting off as a lone voice, he begins to harmonize with himself and then adds layers of warbling vocals until the song builds to a frenzied, backwoods R&B symphony of weirdness. It's a move that could send lots of people into fits of disbelief but strangely enough, it works -- especially over headphones, where the vocals can envelope you completely. It's probably a direction Vernon won't follow, but it's an interesting experiment that keeps the record from sounding like outtakes (worthy outtakes, but outtakes all the same) from For Emma, Forever Ago. [The 10th Anniversary Edition reissue of the EP adds live versions of the songs recorded in 2018. Given full band treatments that seem designed to rattle the rafters of the venue and sounding like a combination of Radiohead and the Band, the versions show how far Vernon has come sonically over a decade's time. Most of the backwoods intimacy of the originals is lost -- even 'Woods' is blown out to extremem proprtions -- but the emotion and songcraft is still there.]
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