Jagjaguwar announces 25th anniversary campaign and album featuring Bon Iver, Gia Margaret and more

11 February 2021, 15:10 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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Jagjaguwar is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a year-long release campaign, beginning with Dilate Your Heart, an album of poetry by Ross Gay featuring music from Bon Iver, Gia Margaret and others.

Dilate Your Heart is the first Jag Quarterly album of Jagjaguwar's year-long 25th anniversary campaign JAG25, and is announced today alongside Ross Gay's "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude" poem which includes music by Bon Iver.

The upcoming album will feature poetry performed by Ross Gay, which will be set to music by the likes of Mary Lattimore, Angel Bat Dawid, Gia Margaret and Sam Gendel.

Other artists confirmed as contributors for future Jag Quarterly releases include Lonnie Holley, Moses Sumney, Perfume Genius, Sharon Van Etten and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

Each instalment of Jag Quarterly will resurrect a different mantra from the label’s past, including Dilate Your Heart, This is a Mindfulness Drill, Join the Ritual and the original Jagjaguwar mantra, Sentimental Noise.

Tracklist:

Ross Gay / Bon Iver - Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay / Mary Lattimore - Burial
Ross Gay / Angel Bat Dawid - To the Fig Tree on 9th & Christian
Ross Gay / Gia Margaret - Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be
Ross Gay / Sam Gendel - Sorrow Is Not My Name

Ross Gay and Bon Iver's "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude" is out now. Jagjaguwar's Dilate Your Heart album will arrive digitally on 26 March and physically on 9 April, and is available to pre-order now.