iMusic... Grimes - Visions (Album Stream)

The forthcoming third studio album from 23-year old Experimental DJ, Producer and Singer Claire Boucher aka Grimes titled Visions has already been getting rave reviews from those who've been lucky enough to listen to it in its entirety. Now courtesy of the good folks at NPR, we've also been given that pleasure of listening to Visions in full for a full week before it is released on February 21 via 4AD... Stream after the JUMP...

iMusic... Bon Iver - Beth/Rest (Solo Piano Version)

Justin Vernon/Bon Iver's self-titled sophomore album is a great record - one of the best of 2011 so far - but one song off of the album that a lot of Bon Iver fans and critics alike give rather too much stick (in my opinion) is the album's closer "Beth/Rest". "For good reason", some might say - it sounds nothing like the rest of the album and it feels out of place plus it's a Lionel Richie/Bruce Hornsby-type 80's Adult Contemporary/Soft Rock record aka "Cheesy" and that's certainly not what we know and love Justin Vernon for - not that I mind by the way, I actually like "Beth/Rest" for a number of reasons. 

Anyway Bon Iver was recently on NPR's World Cafe and Vernon gave a brilliant performance of "Beth/Rest" - a more stripped down acoustic Piano rendition of "Beth/Rest" that is not only AWESOME but should please any stubborn critics of the original album cut, listen BELOW...

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