DEYARMOND EDISON, BON IVER AND MEGAFAUN’S PRECURSOR, ANNOUNCE DEFINITIVE BOX SET

DeYarmond Edison—the early band of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon with Megafaun’s Phil Cook, Brad Cook, and Joe Westerlund—have a comprehensive new box set on the way. It’s titled Epoch, and the 5xLP and 4xCD sets are out August 18 via Jagjaguwar. The box features 83 recordings, including many previously unreleased songs. Grayson Haver Currin, the set’s executive producer and a longtime Pitchfork contributor, wrote 60,000 words of liner notes to go with it.

DeYarmond Edison’s “As Long as I Can Go” and Phil Cook and Justin Vernon’s “Feel the Light” are both available now on digital platforms. Below, listen to both and find the new lyric video for “Bones.” Each of the box’s five LPs comes with a corresponding essay and unique symbol representing the dynamics in the band during that era.

The musicians’ first album, All of Us Free, features music either unreleased or passed around in limited physical editions. It includes music from their high school–era band Mount Vernon and their earliest record as DeYarmond Edison Quartet, which was self-recorded in the nude at a church. Their second album, Silent Signs, will be pressed to vinyl for the first time. The third LP is Epoch, etc., which features music they made between 2005 and the band’s dissolution the following year.

The rest of the collection features Vernon’s solo recordings before Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, plus Megafaun’s first rehearsal tapes and material recorded during DeYarmond Edison’s different reunions. It also includes recordings from their Bickett Gallery residency in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a 2006 concert at the Mabel Tainter Theater in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

Bon Iver are headlining this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park in Chicago on Sunday, July 23. Tickets are on sale now.