Tag Archives: The Shouting Matches

Justin Vernon began saving as Bon Iver following break up of DeYarmond Edison. Vernon’s single project had taken the band’s introspective, folky audio and embellished it with squinchy, quirky orchestral details that nodded to Sparklehorse and a drifty optimism similar to the Flaming Lip area. After composing and recording within …

Produced in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 2006 by Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon, Phil Make of Megafaun, and Brian Moen of Peter Wolf Crier, the Shouting Fits specialize in sort of low-key, roots-fueled blues-rock that owes more to Tom Petty than it can the lonesome, lovelorn indie folk of Vernon’s …