I've been listening to Bon Iver's album 'For Emma, Forever Ago' most days for the last four months. It has a quality to it that I find very hard to pin down. It strikes me that the writing process he used for it has a lot to do with that. He taped himself just mumbling syllables do the tune of the song, and then played the tape again and again, writing down the different words he thought he could hear, and compiled the lyrics from these. I think the result is very touching, and preserves the quality of first thoughts and their intimacy into a very tight, together finished album.
what do you guys think?
all 't' best,
Joe