She first introduced the concept during her acceptance speech as Songwriter-Artist of the Decade at the Nashville Songwriter Awards last month. mayhem by dropping Apple Music playlists that group her songs into one of three vibes: Fountain Pen, Quill Pen, and Glitter Gel Pen. Then touring.What, you thought you were the only one who made Taylor Swift playlists? On Friday, one week before the release of her upcoming album Midnights, Miss Blondie continued her 12:00 a.m. Bon Iver plays the Leadmill, Sheffield, tonight. I like people being in one place and knowing it."įor Emma, Forever Ago is out now on Vital. "I think it's pretty telling how widely travelled people are and yet they never maybe examine where they are as much as they could. But the idea that I could live in Eau Claire, and I could not know every nook and cranny, or that I could not know every nook and cranny in my own home, or my own land. Like: dude, you should probably not love it so much here. "Even as a teenager, I was already worried that I wanted to live there my whole life. Its industry used to be logging and paper, there used to be a big tyre plant there." Vernon himself has recently bought a house there, "80 yards from where I was born". I wanted to have songs that live in one place."Īs we walk around the exhibition, Vernon talks warmly of his home town, Eau Claire, describing it as "nothing extravagant. I have all these ideas but I want to be focused. "I sometimes feel like I want to be there, or I want my music to come from there. Like that painting." He refers to the painting with the blue sky and the red earth. "I often find I live in different places in different songs. It's more inquisitive winter is a time of internal thinking for me."Īnd would it have been a very different album if he had recorded it elsewhere? He nods. In the winter, it's more like this lengthy, beautiful thing. "But it's weird, I find I get more heavily depressed in the summertime. "Probably would have been a bit more joyful," he says. I ask Vernon if the record would have been very different had he recorded it in the summer. "That's how almost every lyric on the album was written, in that weird, subconscious back-door way." The result is something quite otherworldly, with stacked vocals, potent imagery and Vernon's star falsetto, poised somewhere between gospel, alt-folk and a cathedral choir.īack at the Tate, we are looking at a warm-weather Doig painting: red earth, blue sky, parched grass. I sat down and started working on the songs, layering vocals on top of vocals, trying to be a choir." Sometimes, the vocals were more syllables than words. "But music was just part of the process of me ironing out that weird vibe inside me. "I didn't go up there to make a record," he says. "You want to kill it really quickly." It was a good two weeks before he set up any of his music equipment - two weeks in which his head cleared and inspiration came. You want to hit it here," he says, touching his side. "That year was the first time I had killed a deer. But there's still that ancient vibe, because you're so far away from everything."Īt first, he admits, he did little but drink beer gradually, he began to acquire a self-sufficiency that may be the source of the record's feeling of completeness. "The cabin's like a little alpine-style, timber-frame cabin, used to just have a dirt floor, but the last few years my dad's made it. It stands on 80 acres of land rich in aspens, wolves and wild turkeys. The cabin was built in 1979 by his father, and Vernon would often spend weekends there growing up. So I broke up with everybody, I broke up the band, I broke up with my girlfriend - broke free to do that." Vernon arrived at the cabin in a state of disrepair, having driven through the night from the stifling, swampy heat of North Carolina, where he had settled with the members of his former band, DeYarmond Edison, with whom he had played since his teens. That space really did hand me a lot of ideas - ideas that I already had, but that I needed help with strengthening." "When it's winter out there," he says,"there are no leaves on the trees and the pines are really tall, and there's lanes of light inside them, and bare hills, and so much space.
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