"hazelton" b/w "liner"

Epoch Out August 18th on Jagjaguwar, Telling The

5-LP, 4-CD & 114-Page Story of The Band That Birthed Bon Iver, Megafaun & Many More:

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Justin Vernon by D.L. Anderson

Joe Westerlund | Justin Vernon | Brad Cook | Phil Cook

On August 18th, Jagjaguwar will release Epoch, the 5-LP, 4-CD and 114-page story of DeYarmond Edison: a short-lived band with an outsized and indispensable impact, whose sudden implosion ended up birthing Bon Iver, Megafaun and so many more. Through the 83 recordings unearthed across the definitive box set, the formative evolution of members Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Justin Vernon and Joe Westerlund is documented in unabashed and unabridged detail – from the big dreams, superhuman connection and multiple albums they made together as childhood friends in Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley, to the life-changing year of collective experimentation in Raleigh, NC, to the individual aspirations that led to revelatory and dismal moments of tension. Today, for Epoch's second preview, another transformative piece of the past is revisited with two new singles, officially available on digital platforms for the first time. 

Listen to Justin Vernon's "hazelton" b/w "liner," and Watch the Lyric Video:

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As the oldest song that would become part of Bon Iver's wider repertoire, "hazelton" eventually matured into the indelible "Holocene," but Justin Vernon first recorded it between July 2005-May 2006 for what would be his third solo album. Originally released on a batch of 100 handmade, hand-numbered CD-Rs, hazeltons now makes up one of Epoch's five LPs. "This is the sound of sorting through an overabundance of new info, mostly for yourself. And, even in the rather fraught process, finding out just where it is you've been headed your whole life," writes Grayson Haver Currin, the box set's executive producer and biographer. Above a cascading melody and novel picking pattern, Vernon uses his newly excavated falsetto to offer elliptical lyrics about hurt and hurting and salvation and self-definition. "hazelton" feels like a lightning strike of inspiration, but at the time it was the most significant point of departure in the dissolution of DeYarmond Edison. It was an extracurricular insult when Vernon, Westerlund and the Cook brothers were all still evolving as a four-piece unit. Just more than a month after Vernon dropped off copies of hazeltons at the record store where Brad Cook worked in their adopted hometown of Raleigh, NC, DeYarmond Edison played its final show. Less than a year later, Bon Iver and Megafaun would each issue their respective debuts. 

In addition to "hazelton" and "liner," the rest of hazeltons features other eccentricities, ideas and remarkable steps forward that Justin Vernon would further explore on Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago and beyond. "hannah, my ophelia," a collaboration with members of Collections of Colonies of Bees, would soon yield the band Volcano Choir. Also available on Epoch's physical edition is an exclusive live version of "hazelton" that Vernon recorded with Aaron and Bryce Dessner in Paris. 

Pre-Order Epoch and Watch the Box Set's Trailer:

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Accompanied by dozens of previously unpublished photos and 60,000 words worth of in-depth interviews and universal tales of small-town transcendence, each of Epoch's LPs is encapsulated by a unique symbol and color palette representing the dynamics of DeYarmond Edison at that given time and place. "hazelton" and "liner" follow the recent release of DeYarmond Edison's "As Long As I Can Go" b/w Justin Vernon & Phil Cook's "Feel The Light," the lead single from Epoch's first LP, All of Us Free. Spanning November 1998-July 2005, All of Us Free brings DeYarmond Edison back to its earliest iteration, as a group of Eau Claire high schoolers who called themselves Mount Vernon. They soon sputtered to life as the DeYarmond Edison Quartet with a debut album they self-recorded in the nude at a local Presbyterian church.

Epoch also includes DeYarmond Edison's second studio album, Silent Signs, remastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time, plus Epoch, etc., which showcases the explosion of brilliance that resulted from a year spent reinventing themselves after a hope-filled move from Eau Claire to Raleigh. That Was Then, the four-CD component of Epoch, excavates live recordings from DeYarmond Edison's Bickett Gallery residency in North Carolina, and a triumphant 2006 show at Wisconsin's Mabel Tainter theater, while Where We Belong combines tapes from the very first Megafaun rehearsal, different DeYarmond Edison reunions, and other buried treasures that came during the decade after the band's dissolution. 

Find the full tracklist below and subscribe to the DeYarmond Edison newsletter for updates, excerpts and more HERE

Photo Credit: D.L. Anderson (Pictured Left to Right: Justin Vernon, Joe Westerlund, Phil Cook, Brad Cook)

Epoch Tracklist

LP1 - All of Us Free

Mount Vernon - We Can Look Up

Mount Vernon - Morning

Phil Cook & Justin Vernon - Feel the Light

Justin Vernon - Breathe

DeYarmond Edison - The Lake

DeYarmond Edison - Dusty Road, So Kind

DeYarmond Edison - As Long as I Can Go

Justin Vernon - Right Down There in Your Tributary

DeYarmond Edison - The Orient

LP2 - Silent Signs

DeYarmond Edison - Lift

DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs

DeYarmond Edison - Heroin(e)

DeYarmond Edison - Love Long Gone

DeYarmond Edison - First Impression

DeYarmond Edison - Bones

DeYarmond Edison - Heart for Hire

DeYarmond Edison - Dead Anchor

DeYarmond Edison - Ragstock

DeYarmond Edison - We

DeYarmond Edison - Dash

DeYarmond Edison - Time to Know

LP3 - Epoch, etc.

DeYarmond Edison - Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)

DeYarmond Edison - Epoch

DeYarmond Edison - Baby Done Got Your Number

DeYarmond Edison - Brief Scene

DeYarmond Edison - Where We Belong

DeYarmond Edison - Red Shoes

DeYarmond Edison - Heroin(e)

LP4 - hazeltons

Justin Vernon - hazelton

Justin Vernon - frail sail

Justin Vernon - game night

Justin Vernon - easy

Justin Vernon - liner

Justin Vernon - song for a lover (of long ago)

Justin Vernon - hannah, my ophelia

LP5 - Where We Belong

Justin Vernon - Look Down That Long, Lonesome Road

Justin Vernon - Handwriting on the Wall

Ticonderoga (feat. Justin Vernon) - Hands Up

Justin Vernon - Funeral Lights

Megafaun - Lazy Suicide (Edit)

Megafaun (feat. Justin Vernon) - Carolina Days

Megafaun (feat. Justin Vernon, Frazey Ford + Fight the Big Bull) - Trials, Troubles, Tribulations (Live from the Sydney Opera House, June 1, 2013)

Megafaun + Bon Iver - Worried Mind

DeYarmond Edison - Set Me Free

CD1 - That Was Then - North Carolina - The Bickett Gallery Residency

DeYarmond Edison - What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?

DeYarmond Edison - Step It Up and Go

DeYarmond Edison - Phil's Instrumental

DeYarmond Edison - Louis Collins

DeYarmond Edison - Old Dollar Mamie

DeYarmond Edison - Two Scenes

DeYarmond Edison - Sea Legs

DeYarmond Edison - Abel + Cain

DeYarmond Edison - Half Life

DeYarmond Edison - Afro Blue

CD2 - That Was Then - North Carolina - The Bickett Gallery Residency

DeYarmond Edison - Four Keyboard Phase in A

DeYarmond Edison - Cybernetic Meadow

DeYarmond Edison - Paul's Park

DeYarmond Edison - Justin's Phase Piece

DeYarmond Edison - Exercise in Abandonment

DeYarmond Edison - Bones

DeYarmond Edison - I Live The Life I Love (I Love The Life I Live)

DeYarmond Edison - My Beautiful Reward

DeYarmond Edison - A Satisfied Mind

DeYarmond Edison - Come and Go With Me (to That Land)

CD3 - That Was Then - Wisconsin - The Mabel Tainter Concert

DeYarmond Edison - Intro

DeYarmond Edison - I Been Drinking

DeYarmond Edison - Down on the Banks of the Ohio

DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs

DeYarmond Edison - Please Find Me Here

DeYarmond Edison - Abel + Cain

DeYarmond Edison - We

DeYarmond Edison - Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

DeYarmond Edison - Afro Blue

CD4 - That Was Then - Wisconsin - The Mabel Tainter Concert

DeYarmond Edison - Intro

DeYarmond Edison - The Longest Train

DeYarmond Edison - No Depression in Heaven

DeYarmond Edison - Red Shoes

DeYarmond Edison - Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)

DeYarmond Edison - Ain't No More Cane

DeYarmond Edison - easy

DeYarmond Edison - All Tomorrow's Parties

DeYarmond Edison - A Satisfied Mind

DeYarmond Edison - Come and Go With Me (to That Land)

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