A French Article for a Band with a French Name

Shmello readers (I have readers?), I haven't posted in a while. I've been swamped with this, soon to be this. But I'm on spring break (partayy!), so I figure I'd reunite with the interwebs.

If you haven't seen this video, do yourself a favor: sit down, plug in some good headphones or speakers, and enjoy.

It's part of a series of live Bon Iver concerts put on and filmed by Blogotheque, a pretty damn awesome, if overly french, music website. Luckily, most of its content can be translated into english, at expense of its indie cred.

Here is the video's original article. It includes a few other hair-raising videos. But keep in mind that I'm extremely biased.

My top ten songs on itunes are

1. "Flume"

2. "Styrofoam Plates" (Death Cab)

3. "Skinny Love"

4. "Team"

5. "Blacking out the Friction" (Death Cab)

6. "Lump Sum"

7. "Wolves (Act I and II)"

8. "Blindsided"

9. "Creature Fear"

10. "Why You'd Want to Live Here" (Death Cab)

This is only from when I got my new computer in August, but 7 of my top 10 are Bon Iver. Did I mention I like Bon Iver? The other three are off the same Death Cab Album, which is awesome, but the topic of another post.

So, yes, Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago is a fantastic album, and Blogotheque did a great job capturing the spirit of it in this article. The videos are as natural feeling and sounding as the original album, which Justin Vernon wrote while holed up in a Wisconsin cabin. It's what makes Bon Iver and these videos great.