It's just a bunch of weird graveyard symbols or whatever. Artist: Bon Iver Album: 22, A Million Released: 2016 Style: Indie Folk Format: MP3 320Kbps Size: 88 Mb. It's just kind of fun to look on the back of the album and not see, like, 'I Went Down The Road,' and then, 'Mother's Blues, or whatever. We were just like, 'Let's have a shitload of symbols.' Those symbols for the festival were all the songs, and the song titles. And I'd be like, 'What is that?! Let's put that in there!' That is absolutely emblematic of what we're going for. So talking to Eric Timothy Carlson, we talked together for the last couple years about all this, and I just sort of let him run wild, and he'd just come and draw. We're dealing with some sort of religious, or at least spiritual, iconographic sort of themes on the record, and numbers in general. I think that was the moment I knew where I needed to go." On the album's meaning, subtext and all those weird symbols in the song names But that song is a caveat that I wanted to build around. When I had that going on, it was almost finished basically when we made it, so we had to kind of sit on it for three years, or whatever it's been. And that, for me, got me up out of my seat and made me want to break it down and crush something, or do something. Personally, what I was going through, and what I've found a lot of other people are going through, is a lot of anxiety. We had it very early on, me and BJ Burton had this drum loop, and it just sounded broken down and messed up, a little bit. It's called '10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄,' now, but it was called 'Lesterchuck' for a long time, after our friend, Ben Lester kind of helped us make it. That's actually been around quite a long time. "The moment for me was when I was making the second song. On the moment he realized he needed to break apart everything Bon Iver had been before
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