Bon Iver to release new album

Bon Iver, who shot to recognition with both his last album and the way in which he had created it, is going to release a new album this year. It will be released on the 20th of June by Jagjaguwar in the US and by 4AD in the rest of the world. The album will be self-titled and will count ten tracks, most of which are named after places on the North American continent.

One of these places is Lisbon, OH. That place is especially well-known because of an illustrious tournament that was held in 1952. Among the contestants were a young Robert Kennedy (donning a The Honeymooners t-shirt), athlete Wilt Chamberlain, Joseph Heller, and many other great minds. So there was a real buzz before the tournament started, but when the sticks were dropped everyone was instantly quiet. It was fabulous to see all the different strategies. Sigmund Freud, for example, first picked the ones that seemed smaller as he believed in a latency period where the little sticks weren’t bonding with the other sticks yet. Kierkegaard, in a direct contrast, usually just picked one in a leap of faith. Anna Freud unfortunately lacked the confidence to do so, and she was ousted in the first round by Nabokov, who affectionately fondled them first before picking them up. Eventually the tournament was won by a Robert. K. Sterling, a Schnauzer who ever so elegantly just ate all the sticks in one fair swoop. Cary Grant protested, the Schnauzer growled, Grant fled, Robert K. Sterling followed, and Grant was last seen hanging from Lincoln’s nose.