Blood bank

"Blood Bank certainly dispels concerns that Vernon's accomplishment was somehow environmental - that For Emma's poetic circumstances, and not its contents, were responsible for its success. Blood Bank is still a wintry record - there's snow on the cover, and lyrics about snow, and, if you listen on vinyl, the metaphorical snow of hissing surface noise - but Bon Iver is hardly a seasonal taste".

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"Lad det være sagt først som sidst: de fire sange på dette mellemspil fra Bon Iver lever i den grad op til de høje forventninger, som For Emma, Forever Ago har ført med sig ... Tankevækkende og meget smukt. Ord, som gælder for hele ep'en, der lover mere end godt for kommende Bon Iver-projekter".

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"The EP sounds like outtakes from Emma, but not in a bad way. "Blood Bank," with its subtly propulsive drums and idiosyncratic lyrics, would have been one of the album's best moments".

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"Denne gang er det kun en lille ep, men den når alligevel vidt omkring og sætter et emotionelt punktum for Bon Ivers ensomhedstur. I den indledende 'Blood Bank' genkender man straks den glødende, menneskelige fornemmelse, og med åbningslinjen, 'I met you at the blood bank, we were looking at the bags', bliver scenen øjeblikkeligt sat".

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