Reading like a collection of short poems, Bon Iver's lyrics for his highly-anticipated self-titled album have gone up on Jagjaguwar for mass consumption. It's not often you can read lyrics and enjoy them as a contribution to modern literature, but - as you can read below from the short yet eloquent "Perth" - Bon Iver masters that double-edged sword.
While you feed the book nerd within, also listen to Cillo's mellow remix of Bon Iver's first single, "Calgary." The album drops on June 21.
"Perth"
Iʼm tearing up, acrost your face
move dust through the light
to fide your name
it’s something fane
this is not a place
not yet awake, I’m raised of make
still alive who you love
still alive who you love
still alive who you love
in a mother, out a moth
furling forests for the soft
gotta know been lead aloft
so I’m ridding all your stories
what I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!
you’re breaking your ground
(via Stereogum)