BBC Radio 1 has just premiered the new collaboration between Bon Iver and James Blake, a track entitled “Fall Creek Boys Choir”. You can stream it below.

Blake cites Justin Vernon as a key influence. The two eventually met at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where the initial plans for a collaboration were made. Months of emails followed, then last Wednesday Blake tweeted,  “24th August 2011 – James Blake & Bon Iver ‘Fall Creek Boys Choir’”.

And as promised, a week later, here it is in all its glory:

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