{"id":837,"date":"2008-04-18T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=837"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:20:14","slug":"in_concert_bon_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/in_concert_bon_.html","title":{"rendered":"In Concert: Bon Iver (2nd x)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_bon.html\">first time I saw him\/them live<\/a>, I didn&#8217;t even have the album yet (small release in &#8217;07, big release 2\/19\/08). I was worried that seeing him\/them again so soon would be too much the same, but given that I had the album to compare it to this time, it felt very different.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re really evolving these songs away from the album versions. A lot more atmospheric, more discordance and (purposeful) feedback and such. The falsetto is a little wilder and sometimes turns into a yowl. The three of them sing in harmony a LOT and it&#8217;s awesome. It&#8217;s a bit more raw and in your face than on the record. Not quite as plaintive and sad, a bit more aggressive in its melancholy. Beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the first time I saw him\/them live, I didn&#8217;t even have the album yet (small release in &#8217;07, big release 2\/19\/08). I was worried that seeing him\/them again so soon would be too much the same, but given that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/in_concert_bon_.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}