![3rd Street AKA Old World Third AKA Dr Martin Luther King Drive doesn’t touch Lake Drive.
This has been bothering me for a while. Not to take anything away from Justin Vernon when Bon Iver, Bon Iver has been named Pitchfork’s Album of the Year, but just to provide a service to out of town listeners.
Holocene might feature a “deliberately specific reference,” but to an imagined place (presumably located in Milwaukee). And of course, perhaps that’s the point.
Anyways, I love Bon Iver, Bon Iver. I loved seeing the songs performed live this summer and I love listening to the album again and again… and again. A great choice by Pitchfork for album of the year.
UPDATE: New Wave Polly Pocket reports that there is a “3rd and Lake” in Eu Claire, Wisconsin. Of course. Mystery solved.
UDATE 2: Foiled by Instapapering? Justin Vernon on myths, mystery, meaning, and his triumphant self-titled album:
Pitchfork: There are so many specific things from your life on this new album— like mentioning the house where Brad and Phil Cook lived in Wisconsin at Third and Lake on “Holocene”— what are they all communicating together?
JV: I’m not sure how any images on a record fit together, but they are coming from a specific place. “Holocene” is a good example. The whole second verse is about those years in Eau Claire but the first verse is this weird amalgamation of the darkness that came with those times. I set that verse in Milwaukee because it’s a dark, beer-drunk place. Even though I didn’t spend a lot of time there, it’s a good metaphor for those darker times. And guess what adults do on Halloween in Milwaukee? They get blind drunk and try to forget about their childhoods. We were going through ideas for a video for “Holocene”, and we thought it should be adults trick-or-treating where children are handing out their past dreams. Pretty dark. The last verse fast-forwards to two Christmases ago, spending time with [brother/co-manager] Nate during an ice storm, smoking weed. They aren’t as subjective as songs I used to write, but they work together in a conglomerate sense.
I feel like I need to slap a “myth busted” watermark on this image…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwbb6jVMzj1qzv41zo1_500.png)
3rd Street AKA Old World Third AKA Dr Martin Luther King Drive doesn’t touch Lake Drive.
This has been bothering me for a while. Not to take anything away from Justin Vernon when Bon Iver, Bon Iver has been named Pitchfork’s Album of the Year, but just to provide a service to out of town listeners.
Holocene might feature a “deliberately specific reference,” but to an imagined place (presumably located in Milwaukee). And of course, perhaps that’s the point.
Anyways, I love Bon Iver, Bon Iver. I loved seeing the songs performed live this summer and I love listening to the album again and again… and again. A great choice by Pitchfork for album of the year.
UPDATE: New Wave Polly Pocket reports that there is a “3rd and Lake” in Eu Claire, Wisconsin. Of course. Mystery solved.
UDATE 2: Foiled by Instapapering? Justin Vernon on myths, mystery, meaning, and his triumphant self-titled album:
Pitchfork: There are so many specific things from your life on this new album— like mentioning the house where Brad and Phil Cook lived in Wisconsin at Third and Lake on “Holocene”— what are they all communicating together?
JV: I’m not sure how any images on a record fit together, but they are coming from a specific place. “Holocene” is a good example. The whole second verse is about those years in Eau Claire but the first verse is this weird amalgamation of the darkness that came with those times. I set that verse in Milwaukee because it’s a dark, beer-drunk place. Even though I didn’t spend a lot of time there, it’s a good metaphor for those darker times. And guess what adults do on Halloween in Milwaukee? They get blind drunk and try to forget about their childhoods. We were going through ideas for a video for “Holocene”, and we thought it should be adults trick-or-treating where children are handing out their past dreams. Pretty dark. The last verse fast-forwards to two Christmases ago, spending time with [brother/co-manager] Nate during an ice storm, smoking weed. They aren’t as subjective as songs I used to write, but they work together in a conglomerate sense.
I feel like I need to slap a “myth busted” watermark on this image…
