Photo Credit: D.L. Anderson

On Aug. 18, Joe Westerlund, Justin Vernon, Brad Cook and Phill Cook, known as the short-lived group DeYarmond Edison, will mark their times together by turning out Epoch via Jagjaguwar. The set boasts five albums, four CDs, and a 114-page story outlining their joint experience, pre-Bon Iver and Megafaun. Today the group shared the second preview of the forthcoming collection, with the song “hazelton,” which eventually became the For Emma, Forever Ago classic, “Holocene.”

The single represents one of the oldest songs from Bon Iver’s expansive repertoire. The initial song, “hazelton” eventually matured into the recognizable indie-folk anthem, “Holocene,” which was first recorded by Vernon between July 2005 and May 2006 and originally released on a batch of 100 handmade, hand-numbered CD-Rs–hazeltons now make up one of Epoch‘s five LPs. 

“This is the sound of sorting through an overabundance of new info, mostly for yourself. And, even in the rather fraught process, finding out just where it is you’ve been headed your whole life,” offered Grayson Haver Currin, the box set’s executive producer and biographer. The track finds Vernon evoking his newly excavated falsetto, which cascades over summiting lyrics which touch on hurt, self-definition and salvation. 

Apart from today’s single release and the previous drop, “liner,” and the rest of hazeltons features an unorthodox assemblage of ideas that would eventually bloom into Vernon’s Bon Iver staple For Emma, Forever Ago and beyond. Also included is “hannah, my ophelia,” a collaboration with folks from Collections of Colonies of Bees, and a live version of “hazelton” recorded in Paris with Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National. 

Scroll down to view the tracklists for the box set. Steam “hazelton” now.

Epoch Tracklist

LP1 – All of Us Free

Mount Vernon – We Can Look Up

Mount Vernon – Morning

Phil Cook & Justin Vernon – Feel the Light

Justin Vernon – Breathe

DeYarmond Edison – The Lake

DeYarmond Edison – Dusty Road, So Kind

DeYarmond Edison – As Long as I Can Go

Justin Vernon – Right Down There in Your Tributary

DeYarmond Edison – The Orient

LP2 – Silent Signs

DeYarmond Edison – Lift

DeYarmond Edison – Silent Signs

DeYarmond Edison – Heroin(e)

DeYarmond Edison – Love Long Gone

DeYarmond Edison – First Impression

DeYarmond Edison – Bones

DeYarmond Edison – Heart for Hire

DeYarmond Edison – Dead Anchor

DeYarmond Edison – Ragstock

DeYarmond Edison – We

DeYarmond Edison – Dash

DeYarmond Edison – Time to Know

LP3 – Epoch, etc.

DeYarmond Edison – Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)

DeYarmond Edison – Epoch

DeYarmond Edison – Baby Done Got Your Number

DeYarmond Edison – Brief Scene

DeYarmond Edison – Where We Belong

DeYarmond Edison – Red Shoes

DeYarmond Edison – Heroin(e)

LP4 – hazeltons

Justin Vernon – hazelton

Justin Vernon – frail sail

Justin Vernon – game night

Justin Vernon – easy

Justin Vernon – liner

Justin Vernon – song for a lover (of long ago)

Justin Vernon – hannah, my ophelia

LP5 – Where We Belong

Justin Vernon – Look Down That Long, Lonesome Road

Justin Vernon – Handwriting on the Wall

Ticonderoga (feat. Justin Vernon) – Hands Up

Justin Vernon – Funeral Lights

Megafaun – Lazy Suicide (Edit)

Megafaun (feat. Justin Vernon) – Carolina Days

Megafaun (feat. Justin Vernon, Frazey Ford + Fight the Big Bull) – Trials, Troubles, Tribulations (Live from the Sydney Opera House, June 1, 2013)

Megafaun + Bon Iver – Worried Mind

DeYarmond Edison – Set Me Free

CD1 – That Was Then – North Carolina – The Bickett Gallery Residency

DeYarmond Edison – What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?

DeYarmond Edison – Step It Up and Go

DeYarmond Edison – Phil’s Instrumental

DeYarmond Edison – Louis Collins

DeYarmond Edison – Old Dollar Mamie

DeYarmond Edison – Two Scenes

DeYarmond Edison – Sea Legs

DeYarmond Edison – Abel + Cain

DeYarmond Edison – Half Life

DeYarmond Edison – Afro Blue

CD2 – That Was Then – North Carolina – The Bickett Gallery Residency

DeYarmond Edison – Four Keyboard Phase in A

DeYarmond Edison – Cybernetic Meadow

DeYarmond Edison – Paul’s Park

DeYarmond Edison – Justin’s Phase Piece

DeYarmond Edison – Exercise in Abandonment

DeYarmond Edison – Bones

DeYarmond Edison – I Live The Life I Love (I Love The Life I Live)

DeYarmond Edison – My Beautiful Reward

DeYarmond Edison – A Satisfied Mind

DeYarmond Edison – Come and Go With Me (to That Land)

CD3 – That Was Then – Wisconsin – The Mabel Tainter Concert

DeYarmond Edison – Intro

DeYarmond Edison – I Been Drinking

DeYarmond Edison – Down on the Banks of the Ohio

DeYarmond Edison – Silent Signs

DeYarmond Edison – Please Find Me Here

DeYarmond Edison – Abel + Cain

DeYarmond Edison – We

DeYarmond Edison – Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

DeYarmond Edison – Afro Blue

CD4 – That Was Then – Wisconsin – The Mabel Tainter Concert

DeYarmond Edison – Intro

DeYarmond Edison – The Longest Train

DeYarmond Edison – No Depression in Heaven

DeYarmond Edison – Red Shoes

DeYarmond Edison – Song for a Lover (of Long Ago)

DeYarmond Edison – Ain’t No More Cane

DeYarmond Edison – easy

DeYarmond Edison – All Tomorrow’s Parties

DeYarmond Edison – A Satisfied Mind

DeYarmond Edison – Come and Go With Me (to That Land)