Blood Bank (EP)

Blood Bank
EP by Bon Iver
Released	January 20, 2009
Recorded	2006-2008
Genre	Indie folk
Length	16:54
Label	Jagjaguwar
Producer	Justin Vernon
Bon Iver chronology
For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) Blood Bank EP (2009) Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk.net	91% [1]
AllMusic	[2]
The A.V. Club	B+ [3]
Drowned in Sound	8/10[4]
The Observer	(favorable) [5]
Paste	85% [6]
Patrol magazine	6.8/10 [7]
Pitchfork	7.9/10[8]
Stereokill	[9]

Blood Bank is a 2009 EP by Bon Iver. It was released on January 20, 2009,^[10] and features four tracks, three of them recorded for the release. The EP is a follow-up to Vernon's award-winning debut album For Emma, Forever Ago, released in 2008.

Information

The title track was written with the previous album but didn't "feel right" and was never released.

"Woods" was sampled in Kanye West's single "Lost in the World" from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and re-recorded as "Still" by Justin Vernon's side-project, Volcano Choir, for their debut album Unmap. It was featured in a Series 3 episode of Skins.

Jagjaguwar has said the following about the content of the EP:

As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air move. Like a fire you've been stoking for hours and finally got to sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is frozen solid.

The EP entered the Billboard 200 at No. 16 with 23,000 copies sold. 79 percent of the sales were digital.^[11]

Track listing

All tracks written by Justin Vernon. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Blood Bank"	4:45
2.	"Beach Baby"	2:40
3.	"Babys"	4:44
4.	"Woods"	4:45
Total length:		16:54

Personnel

Band

• Justin Vernon - Vocals, Guitar, Piano

Additional Musicians

• Mark Paulson — Engineering, Guitar

Design

• Ashley Farland — Photography
• Lauren Hudgins — Cover Photo

Charts

Charts (2009)	Peak[12]
Irish Singles Chart	24
UK Indie Chart	1
UK Singles Chart	37
U.S. Billboard 200	16

References

1. Parno, Travis. "Review: Blood Bank EP". Retrieved 16 June 2011.
2. Sendra, Tim. Blood Bank at AllMusic. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
3. Martins, Chris. "Review: Blood Bank EP". Retrieved 16 June 2011.
4. Tudor, Alexander. "Review: Blood Bank EP". Retrieved 16 June 2011.
5. Warren, Emma (18 January 2009). "Review: Blood Bank EP". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
6. Enstad, Chris. "Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP :: Music :: Reviews :: Paste". Pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
7. "Bon Iver, "Blood Bank" EP | Patrol — A review of religion and the modern world". 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
8. Petrusich, Amanda. "Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP". Retrieved 2014-08-05.
9. "Account Suspended". Stereokill.net. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
10. "Bon Iver — Blood Bank". Jagjaguwar. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
11. Caulfield, Keith (2009-01-28). "Romance And Indie Rock Hit The Billboard 200". Billboard (magazine). Retrieved 2009-01-28.
12. Blood Bank UK & Irish chart info from acharts.us