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The debut album from S. Carey, All We Grow, is the result of a young lifetime spent immersed in music. As a band member of Bon Iver from the very beginning, Sean Carey endured a flip of his formal training to step firmly into a worldwide-touring rock band. His performance degree in classical percussion from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire and his love for jazz drumming prepared him for a central role in the inspiring force of the Bon Iver live show.

All We Grow is a convergence of Carey’s Waltz For Debbie era Bill Evans inflected jazz tendencies, and traditional rock band experience, taking leads from Mark Hollis’ Talk Talk. It also retests the waters of modern classical composition, investigating the moodiness generated by percussive repetition in a manner familiar to fans of Steve Reich. In his downtime on tour with Bon Iver, Sean would spend time pining for his soul-mate’s arms, and in that context, dreaming and composing. During infrequent tour breaks at home he would patiently record these pieces, adding layers each time. Two years later, the parts converged to make an album.

For as much room to breathe as Carey allows his compositions, there are incredibly dynamic moments of bombast held right next to moments of subtle depth and texture. Engineered by Jaime Hansen and Brian Joseph, intermittently at home and at April Base (Justin Vernon’s studio outside Eau Claire), All We Grow is an all-encompassing headphone experience as intimate as chamber music and as ambitious as a symphony.
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  • casablanca

    Listen together with others to new indie folk and indie pop artists and tunes in the "New Indie Folk" Soundrop room on Spotify - http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W2Pf1ShxheWGD8th

    14 days ago

  • niklaskrueger

    Hoyas is excellent! It sounds completely different than All We Grow, of course, because he's trying to achieve a new sound and a whole new dimension with using electronic instruments what he really proved within this project. Give it a try, folks.

    16 days ago

  • FrenchBeekeeper

    Completely agree with you goncalomira...

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  • goncalomira

    Sean, you're going the wrong way. Hoyas is miles away from All We Grow.

    last month

  • thiagokunz

    This is my favorite artist ever! I'm so curious to hear more of your musical thinking in another album. Please!

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  • framo58

    the session with Bon iver in 4AD is so cool!

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  • MaarikaTalja

    Can't really find the right words to describe your beautiful music. :)

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  • zaraki38

    From Astronautalis' FB: "started a new band this week with my friends Arson Only, S. Carey, and Bon Iver...already finished tracking for the album. so excited about this." !!!

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