The Tunz.

[kontractions]

So every now and then I find an album that I like so much that I'm willing to play it constantly, at least while I'm getting to know it. The last ones were probably Alligator and Boxer from The National.

Right now, it's Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever AgoI rarely find music when it's new, and this album is a little over a year old. You may already

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yay for new music recommendations!

[autumnpoet]

::downloading in progress::

[jingoperiod]

"Vernon wrote most of the lyrics for the album by recording a word-less melody and listening to the recording over and over and writing words according to the sound of the syllables of the melody".

Not trying to equate myself to a much more talented song writer, but that is how I write all my songs. Sometimes I get a general idea, but often, when I hear music I haven't heard before, I start singing with it, making up my own music/melody of vocals, and always like the result. That's what I did with Don a while back... I had him lay down some music, then I listened to it over and over again and put lyrics and a vocal melody to it. It was pretty cool, and he really dug it, but we got distracted and it ended there.

[kontractions]

I write the same way.

Another interesting note... After listening to this album a few times, I noted to Ember that I find it interesting that he chooses to play live shows, since so much of the music (like my own) is dependent on multiple vocal tracks and harmonies.

Then I found this in the same Wiki article:

Because of the large amounts of overdubbing in For Emma, Forever Ago, Justin Vernon was concerned that there would not be enough voices to duplicate the sound of the songs on the album. To compensate for this problem, Bon Iver gave lyrics for some songs to the audience to sing along to during shows.