I'd like to say thanks really quickly to Spencer for letting me blog.
At college, I swap music libraries like some people swap bodily fluids at college; frequently and indiscriminately. I get some good music from my friends, but more often than not I get music I don't mind, but I don't love. So when I heard "Flume" by Bon Iver my mind was blown. I had been shuffling through my ipod and this song grabbed my attention with the first few seconds.
The song sounded like the illegitimate love-child of Iron and Wine, The Shins playing in slow motion, and a homeless guy with a guitar crooning on the street. The melody is really haunting and eerie and gives you this sense that your surrounded in this strange mist. It reminded me of Samuel Beam of Iron and Wine fame, singing so softly you can barely hear and yet it consumes all of your attention.
The lyrics are really simple, but powerful. Strong enough to make you feel what the singer is feeling, yet vague enough that you can't describe what it is your both actually feeling. Musically, the song is pretty basic and a bit repetitive, but it's ok because that's how it was intended to be. Like showing up in jeans and a stained t-shirt to a friend's house, it's not bad because it's what's appropriate and what you intended. Definitely give it a listen.
"Flume" by Bon Iver from For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
-E
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