After a brief career as a solo artist, Wisconsin-born Vernon founded Bon Iver in 2007, taking the name from a phonetic play on the French ‘bon hiver’, meaning ‘good winter’. The group achieved significant success with their first album, ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’, the story of which has become one of modern rocks most well-known folk tales. Despondent and depressed following the breakdown of a relationship and a previous band, Vernon retreated to an isolated cabin in rural Wisconsin for a solitary winter.  The period of self-imposed exile inspired a collection of cathartic indie-folk songs, which Vernon recorded on some aged equipment, and which would become one of the best reviewed albums of the year.

Bon Iver went on infinite hiatus in late 2012, after the release of their successful sophomore album, ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’, and Vernon returned to Volcano Choir, a collaboration project with Collections of Colonies of Bees that he had recorded an album, ‘Unmap’, with back in 2009.

Volcano Choir released their second album, ‘Repave’ through Jagjaguwar on the 3^rd September, to positive reviews, and charted at no. 48 in the UK album chart. The band will play the following three UK dates:

November 9^th – Dublin Vicar Street

November 10^th – Bristol O2 Academy

November 11^th – London Barbican

‘Repave’ is out now:

Check out a track, ‘Byegone’, below: