Good stuff keeps rolling into our electronic mail boxes, so we thought we’d hit you with a double dose of the Singles Club today. Given our fascination with all things DeYarmond Edison, we’ve been pretty deeply anticipatory about the upcoming Volcano Choir record, Unmap, which features Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fame and the cats from Collections of Colonies of Bees. The tracks on the upcoming record were layed to tape before For Emma, Forever Ago was in the can and, allegedly, Vernon got a big old dose of creative energy from the sessions. Given all this, we’ve long assumed that the record will be awesome and have been itching to get our grubby fingers on it. The record hits shelves on September 22, but Jagjaguwar just unloosed the first single, “Island, IS” into the universe today.
The track does not disappoint. The complicated layers of mildly frenetic percussion and rhythm behind hushed vocals, the killer breakdown at the 2:30 mark that emerges into a slightly more triumphant and the overall sonic excellence of the track are going to knock your socks off. If the rest of Unmap is this good, we’re, almost certainly, going to have coverage on the record as the release date approaches. We’re stoked. You should be too.
