Leif Vollebekk shares new song "Long Blue Light" and covers Bon Iver's "29 #Stafford APTS"
2020 Polaris Music Prize longlist nominee Leif Vollebekk has returned with new song "Long Blue Light", which arrives alongside a cover of Bon Iver's "29 #Stafford APTS".
"Long Blue Light" and Vollebekk's cover of "29 #Stafford APTS" are his first new releases since May's "Intro" and "Rest (Acoustic)" tracks.
Vollebekk's new track and cover arrive as a celebration of the one-year anniversary of his fourth studio album New Ways, which was released on 1 November last year.
Speaking about his Bon Iver cover, Vollebekk explains, "When that Bon Iver album, 22, A Million, came out, it put something of a spell on me. It acted on me the way records of my youth did. I could take a walk in that record and see things. I still do. I started playing around with this song some December evening way up north, when the light of dusk lasts hours and hours and everything goes blue. The snow, the faces, the houses. The two songs are a bit wrapped up together."
He adds of "Long Blue Light", ""Long Blue Light" was recorded during the sessions for New Ways, live with just myself and a drummer, Homer Steinweiss. I had all but abandoned it but this year I kept coming back to it. I added some overdubs and had Cindy Cashdollar finish it off with a gorgeous dobro part. It was supposed to fade out but I rather liked how it just falls apart at the end."
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