Justin Vernon’s Volcano Choir To Play Harvest

Justin Vernon, the brains of Bon Iver, has confirmed that his latest project Volcano Choir will be coming to Australia to play the Harvest festival.

A day after festival promoter AJ Maddah told Twitter followers that he may bring the indie festival's second announcement forward because “one of the main bands is about to leak”, Vernon told triple j radio that he is locked in for Harvest.

“The answer to your question is 'yes',” he said. “We got a great offer to come down to Australia and play at the Harvest Festival, and I'm excited. It's one of my favourite places to be and to play and I can't wait to be here in November.”

The band will join Harvest's Massive Attack, Franz Ferdinand and Neutral Milk Hotel.

The much-loved nu-folkster also suggested he might bring one of his other projects to Australia this year as well, but played down the future of Bon Iver

“I don't really write songs anymore,” he said. “The last Bon Iver record was a very 'sitting down with a guitar and writing' kind of record. I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

“I'm really honoured that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature. All of the music I've been making shifting away from Bon Iver feels really good… so if I ever do go back to Bon Iver it will be all the better for it.”

Volcano Choir's latest record Repave was released last week, with our reviewer giving it four-and-a-half stars and writing, “Vernon plays with form, utilising Auto-Tune with shimmering eclecticism on Cmrade; rocking a cavernous outro on Byegone, his voice ragged and torn.

“Electronic pulses feed throughout, and as the staccato beat of closer Almanac smashes the glass ceiling of expectations, it's bluntly apparent that Repave stands tall.”

@CaZZaConspiracy one of the main bands is about to leak so we may mive announcement earlier

— AJ (@iamnotshouting) September 2, 2013

In case you missed the news on @triplejmornings just now...we're so excited to have @volcanochoir joining our 2013 lineup!

— Harvest Presents (@HarvestPresents) September 3, 2013