Blood Bank (EP)

Blood Bank
EP by Bon Iver
Released January 20, 2009
Recorded 2006-2008
Genre Indie Folk
Length 16:54
Label Jagjaguwar
Producer Justin Vernon
Bon Iver chronology
For Emma, Forever Ago
(2008)		 Blood Bank EP
(2009)		 Bon Iver
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AbsolutePunk.net (91%) [1]
Allmusic [2]
The A.V. Club (B+) [3]
Drowned in Sound [4]
The Observer (favorable) [5]
Paste (85%) [6]
Patrol magazine (6.8/10) [7]
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) [8]
Stereokill [9]

Blood Bank is a 2009 EP by Bon Iver. It was released on January 20, 2009,[10] and features four tracks, three of them recorded for the release. The album is a follow-up to Vernon's award-winning debut album For Emma, Forever Ago, released in 2008. The title track was written with the previous album but didn't "feel right" and was never released.

"Woods" was featured in a Series 3 episode of Skins, and is sampled in Kanye West's single Lost in the World from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Contents

Information

Jagjaguwar has said the following about the content of the EP:

As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air move. Like a fire you've been stoking for hours and finally got to sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is frozen solid.

The album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 16 with 23,000 copies sold. 79 percent of the sales were digital.[11]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Justin Vernon. 

Blood Bank
No. Title Length
1. "Blood Bank"   4:45
2. "Beach Baby"   2:40
3. "Babys"   4:44
4. "Woods"   4:45

Personnel

Band

Additional Musicians

Design

Charts

Charts (2009) Peak[12]
Irish Singles Chart
24
UK Indie Chart
1
UK Singles Chart
37
U.S. Billboard 200
16

References

  1. ^ Parno, Travis. "Review: Blood Bank EP". http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=795292. Retrieved 16 June 2011. 
  2. ^ Sendra, Tim. Blood Bank (EP) at Allmusic. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  3. ^ Martins, Chris. "Review: Blood Bank EP". http://www.avclub.com/articles/bon-iver,22839. Retrieved 16 June 2011. 
  4. ^ Tudor, Alexander. "Review: Blood Bank EP". http://drownedinsound.com/releases/13922/reviews/4136070. Retrieved 16 June 2011. 
  5. ^ Warren, Emma (18 January 2009). "Review: Blood Bank EP". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/18/bon-iver-blood-bank-review. Retrieved 16 June 2011. 
  6. ^ http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/01/bon-iver-blood-bank-ep.html
  7. ^ http://www.patrolmag.com/music/1256/bon-iver-blood-bank-ep
  8. ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/148268-bon-iver-blood-bank-ep
  9. ^ http://stereokill.net/2009/01/31/review-bon-iver/
  10. ^ http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG134
  11. ^ Caulfield, Keith (2009-01-28). "Romance And Indie Rock Hit The Billboard 200". Billboard (magazine). http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/charts/chart_alert/e3i85756b4e0ca108bc34b515ace5d25d9f. Retrieved 2009-01-28. 
  12. ^ [1]Blood Bank UK & Irish chart info from acharts.us
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Justin Vernon · Michael Noyce · Sean Carey · Matthew McCaughan
Studio albums
EPs
Blood Bank
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