Justin Vernon’s Imprint Announces First Release

The first release from Justin Vernon’s (aka Bon Iver, aka ‘Bonny Bear’) Jagjaguwar imprint, Chigliak, has been announced.

It’ll be a reissue of Amateur Love’s 2003 record, ‘It’s All Aquatic’, out on 12’ and download - additionally featuring a download of the previously unreleased ‘Ev Sessions’, from 2004.

The record will be out on 22nd May.

Of the release, Justin has stated that it’s the primary reason for him starting the imprint.

‘Josh Scott was the ambassador of my heart for many years. While both songwriters in Eau Claire, we were close friends and admired each other’s music. It was obvious to both of us, however, who the better writer was. Josh was writing songs that were both more mature and masterful than mine. His songs came from a perspective as snarly as Paul Westerberg, as enchanting as Neil Young, yet he wielded power as beguiling and unique as any songwriter I’ve ever heard. Nestling himself around Brad and Phil Cook (Megafaun) and Brian Moen (Peter Wolf Crier, Laarks and Shouting Matches), who stretched themselves outside their own comfort zones into those of un-tapped electronic pop, Amateur Love became one of the most enigmatic and electrifying bands I have ever known. With local-legend Jaime Hansen engineering, the band was caught at the rise to their peak of musical power on It’s All Aquatic in 2003.’

The tracklisting for ‘It’s All Aquatic’ is:

Huddle
Con/A Sewer/Cat
(Absolut Fiction)
Sell Me Your Army
Numbers
Gradfadhadya
Ether Egg Hunt
I Need You Now
Say You’re Mine

Watch ‘Con/A Sewer/Cat’ from the band’s live DVD, ‘Punch Me In My Dying Heart’, or listen to the recorded version, below.