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Fresh Folk

Way to Say Goodbye

"Coronation", is a five-minute epic, with an unusual time signature, that starts slow and turns into a cascading movement of guitars, feedback, and post-rock grandeur.

Coronation

Wide Awake

Epoch

XO SKELETON +

october

Eli Wheeler: songwriting, production, vocals, all instrumentation except where noted below

Claire Ozmun: backing vocals

Vin Christopher: mixing, mastering

Emma Walters: cover art, bandcamp background
Molly Young: profile photo

special thanks to Adam Orfale for early listening and feedback, and Janak Joshi for arcane knowledge

See the Sunlight

Shell

In My Arms

Signal Sender

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

Bug Like an Angel

Older

Every front door tells a story of the world inside. Sneaky listen to a track from our debut album 'HOURS' which is out on 3 October through Elastic Stage.

Hours

Every front door

UNDERWATER

You're gonna love me still

DeYarmond Edison did not last so long—a few years spent making two beautiful folk-rock records in their native Wisconsin, followed by a final and transformational 12 months in North Carolina where the quartet reimagined their sound and accidentally ripped apart childhood bonds. But the work DeYarmond Edison made has had an unimagined, outsized staying power. The moment they broke up in August 2006, singer Justin Vernon, who had first tested his falsetto in the band, started Bon Iver, one of this century’s most imaginative acts. The rest of DeYarmond Edison—Brad Cook, Phil Cook, and Joe Westerlund—became Megafaun, who in turn became key to this century’s radical folk-rock reinvention. You can clearly hear the foundations of it all in the massive amount of music DeYarmond Edison produced in its short lifetime. As four friends tried to find their way beyond plaintive beginnings, they tried on gorgeous gospel and unbound free jazz, raw Appalachian folk and ecstatic minimalism, electronic abstraction and longform drone, funneling it all back into increasingly exploratory songs. Those results remain a testament to the way profound, lavishly praised art begins out of sight, when friends fully commit to one another and to their craft. And hatched in two small cities, their work also reaffirms the culture of communities beyond major metropolises, or how outsiders with a vision can make the most compelling sounds. At long last, with the release of Epoch, DeYarmond Edison lives again.

Epoch

DeYarmond Edison

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