It is extremely difficult to locate the direction in which justin vernon went in completing bon iver.
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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.
On that album mr.
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It seems to me that 22 a million is the brilliant result of a self investigation process.
On the way there the music moves like.
Bon iver has always been justin vernon s escape route.
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.
Justin vernon et al s brilliant glitchy third album was released almost two years ago and now on the day of his mad cool.
I bought the cassette and the grainy sound is just right for the album.
It is mature and honest.
Bon iver s for emma forever ago was one of 2008 s biggest critical darlings.
If for emma forever ago was the crisp heart strung isolation of a northern winter.
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.
And 22 a million a blistering crazy energy summer record i i completes the cycle.
Vernon kept things at their absolute most basic.
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.
Bon iver s bon iver is justin vernon returning to former haunts with a new spirit.
2019 release bon iver s most expansive joyful and generous album to date.
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After retreating to the woods of wisconsin to record for emma forever ago he drew a surrealist roadmap of the united states on bon iver.
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.