Justin Vernon + Astronautalis' stream surprise collaboration album

Jason Feathers, the collaborative project of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and rapper Astronautalis have started streaming their debut album online in full, just three days after announcing it.

Titled De Oro, the album has been shrouded in mystery since its announcement earlier this week, with a lengthy press release refusing to name the group’s members, instead offering an elaborate, confusing backstory to the project.

Choice quotes from the Jason Feathers press release include: "One evening Jason Feathers, a.k.a. Creflo, a red-chested god-bassed Southern rapper in a fancy white suit, found himself in an after-bar-impromptu-musical-round-up.”

"There, he tangled with two flashily-clad cronies, one called Toothpick, a drummer-hype-piano-man all in one, and the other a heavily-seasoned guitar-crooning lost-cowboy that went by Ephasis. The house engineer that night, a white-haired man with ghostly features that the locals all called Opacity, captured all that went down.”

De Oro is available to stream in full now via Pitchfork, no live dates have been confirmed by the project as of yet.

Aside from this project Vernon performs both as Bon Iver, and as the frontman in Volcano Choir, who recently completed a string of festival dates.