If for emma forever ago was the crisp heart strung isolation of a northern winter.
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It is mature and honest.
The reprises are there solitude quietude hope and desperation compressed but always a rhythm arises a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes.
Bon iver the rise and whirr of burgeoning spring.
If you re up to what vernon was doing in between bon iver bon iver and this album you can certainly see a build up to this.
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We re coming to the end of bon iver s 22 a million era.
On that album mr.
Vernon kept things at their absolute most basic.
I bought the cassette and the grainy sound is just right for the album.
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And 22 a million a blistering crazy energy summer record i i completes the cycle.
Bon iver has always been justin vernon s escape route.
A truly wonderful piece.
It is extremely difficult to locate the direction in which justin vernon went in completing bon iver.
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Bon iver s bon iver is justin vernon returning to former haunts with a new spirit.
For emma forever ago was a brilliant album full of intimate lyrics with a very autobiographical approach and it is undoubtedly one of the greatest releases of the 21st century.
On the way there the music moves like.
2019 release bon iver s most expansive joyful and generous album to date.
He recorded in solitude on what he described as a very light set up with the intent of distributing the recordings as demos to be shopped to the labels.
Bon iver is about flow from one scene and arrangement and song and memory and word into the next each distinct but connected all leading to beth rest.
It seems to me that 22 a million is the brilliant result of a self investigation process.
Bon iver s for emma forever ago was one of 2008 s biggest critical darlings.