Bon Iver and Rapper Astronautalis Play Dress-Up for Indie Rap Record — rollingstone.com

Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and indie rapper Astronautalis have donned new identities for a collaborative album billed to Jason Feathers called De Oro. Vernon's alter ego is guitarist-singer Ephasis – "a heavily-seasoned guitar-crooning lost-cowboy," according to a press release posted to Stereogum – while Astronautalis is listed as the vocalist "Creflo aka Jason Feathers," "a red-chested god-bassed Southern rapper in a fancy white suit." Bon Iver's S. Carey also handles drums, keyboards and vocals under the name Toothpick. De Oro, which finds the musicians pairing 808s and Heartbreaks–style vocoder vocals with hip-hop and electro rock, is streaming now at Pitchfork.

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