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Bon Iver’s highly anticipated second full-length album Bon Iver, Bon Iver, is now available on Spotify Premium to hear in full. Featuring the stunning single Calgary, you can check it out here: Bon Iver – Bon Iver.
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103 responses to “Listen to Bon Iver, Bon Iver now, and win a trip to Paris to see the band live!”
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Perth is hands down my favourite track - what a way to open the record. From the opening guitar riff right through to the crashing finale, it's a truly captivating listen, and amazing to hear the progression in production and orchestration compared to 'For Emma'. It has everything- heart-wrenching lyrics, dramatic crescendos, military drumming, epic horn parts, layered vocals. The rest of the record is sublime but honestly I don't think it gets beter than this. Wow.
'Perth' opens Bon Iver's second effort beautifully. This stand out track tugs on the heart strings as it slowly develops into an incendiary anthem.
How to choose from so many wonderful tracks? Love Perth and Holocene, but think my favourite is Michicant - just beautiful.
This album is a really bold step into a style which is so Bon Iver but also so much more stylisticly. It's no longer the secluded thoughts of one man in a snowbound cabin, which may disappoint some but understandably over the last 2 years Vernon has gone from nothing to an undisputed hero of acoustic music. So just as he's changed so has his music, becoming more confident and outspoken with larger orchestrations and in some songs... a lack of falsetto! Oh and the production is a lot slicker on 'Bon Iver' than it ever was on For Emma. All that said my favourite song is Michicant because it reminds me of why I fell in love with Bon Iver in the first place.
Calgary - just a very soulful, beautiful track (much like the rest of the album)
It'd be hard to pick just one song without hurting the "feelings" of all the other songs on the album. As usual, Bon has evoked such emotion that one feels compelled to invite themself along for the ride.
well my Favourite one is *Towers* i just love the lyrics peacefull music to listen to, soullfull, towers is easily my favourite but others are joint second, ( Spotify on my app reccomended me bon iver click it thinking oh great more average stuff but in 2008 i started listening to bon ivers album, for emma forever ago fell in love with the music straight away and i told my friends who think bon iver is amazing, skinny love on for emma, forever ago is my favourite track on that.) P.S I very rarely right feedback for artists because i cba with it or no need because everyone else thinks the same or i need to sign up, and for the people out there who have never listend to bon iver today is your day
Towers: 1:48 -2:17 specifically makes my toes tingle and my heart happy. The lyrics are original combining love and nature in an obscuber way and reminds me of a modern day dreamy/fantastical poem from the Romantic era. Modern day Keats style! I fall inside the track every time I hear it.
I have to go with Holocene it just sounds magical.
A seed floating on the wind, buffeted by every gust. An army of red shirts, marching into battle, there is a mournful tone suggesting their fate is sealed before it has even begun. Lost in a city, the bustle of frantic movement and the delirium of an unknown place, despair. A familiar face in the crowd, searching, running, chasing the dream, and being changed, the taste of something different means you can never go back to being without. But there is still hope. Everything that comes to me when I listen to the beautiful Perth by Bon Iver.
My favority has to be Perth. What a superb opening track where the song and guitars just marries together, accompanied by marching drums and glorious horns. Perfection from Justin Vernon.
My favourite is definitely Perth. It puts me in such a good mood, really relaxing. It also reminds me of driving round in the rain to clear my head. Just a beautiful song, still alive for you, love.
Calgary, without a doubt. This song sent shivers up my spine when I first heard it, they're an exceptional band. It's opened up a whole next dimension to Bon Iver, I feel that they've really found their feet and it shows in their music. They've opened their horizons featuring on kanye west's new album. Bon Iver are making more than music now, they're making history..
Calgary! It makes me think of the 1 hour I spent there when I was 11, on a stopover at the airport on my way to Victoria, BC. Aside from that, it's simply a beautiful song. Gorgeous!
My Favorite is Beth/Rest it is just an amazing tune!!! I have listened to the album 4 times all ready and its all great but this song has got this amazing 80's vibe to it, with the great little Sax and guitar parts. What a great song to finish the album! There is such a massive progression from the first album.
Holocene!
I really like Holocene...the vibraphone does it for me
The new album is stunning and a wonderful progression from his first. I would have to say that although it is difficult to choose a favourite I would say that Beth/Rest is it for me. It's so great to hear a creative and innovative musician reclaiming a sound, which a lot of popular modern musicians wouldn't touch with a barge pole because it's too far out their comfort zone. Here Justin shows that he's not a man to be restricted by genres and in doing so paves the way for many other artists to do the same
Minnesota, WI. You've got the trademark falsetto, an early beat and sax that sounds almost Kenny Graham, and then an almost TV on the Radio quality in the latter half, and a lyrical reference back to For Emma, Forever Ago? I feel that he's acknowledging outside influences, also acknowledging that the last album was very monomaniac, but that he's not going to just drop that which made us all mad for his debut. A blend of old and new that strikes the right balance, with a little bit of added adventure.
Where is the question?
I love Calgary. It really deserves to be a single. Very soulful, great melody. This band improves continually and I would love to see them in Paris.
Woods has to be my favourite Bon Iver track! Simple, Quirky and Beautiful!
Beth /Rest … he seems to write things that are instant earwors and conjure up vistas in your head
Towers is the best song on bon ivers self tittled album, simply just the best way to mix an electric sound with an acoustic set. just love it and the lyrics are great too.
Holocene is my pick, it has a hushed sense of reverent awe to it
When stressed out I love to put Calgary on, I might be stuck in traffic but I can dream of far away places
Perth from the dreamy guitar intro to the marching drums then the soaring voice
So out he comes. Reclusive Jason Vernon has prised open the creaky door of Emma’s secluded cabin and peered outside. The world! Look! (I think he likes it). This is a big, expansive record. Deep, rich production, more instruments than a gynaecology ward and a lyrical agenda that says: ‘you will never know what I’m talking about but hey, it doesn’t matter, does it?’ Tthen there’s geography class. I think he’s heard Surfjan Stevens gave up his 50 states/50 records project and thought, bugger that, I’ll do Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas and chuck in Australia/Scotland (Perth), Canada (Calgary) and Wash(ington) all on one record. Take that Michigan boy. And my favourite of this giant of an album? The closer, Beth/Rest. It’s his biggest departure yet, a horns-heavy, 80s inspired surprise that just about stays on the right side of Phil Collins-styled indulgence. And weirdly, it really works.
All of them are awesome songs. All have their own beauty. Faveourite song though is perth :)
Didn't really like any of them, but my girlfriend's from Calgary so woop woop! Big shout out to the Flames!
For me... Calgary. Sentimentality defined.
It's Holocene. It's a the track that manages to link Bon Iver, Bon Iver to For Emma. It's part of me, apart from me. It's part of For Emma, apart from it. The steady remnants of finger picked guitar from Emma genuinely emphasised and reverberated by the huge swelling new sound of the album, this track is a confluence, a reinforcement, a strengthening, a reach out to the fans who've been here since the cabin. It's a relief, that wombs and recedes, and I could see for miles, that Bon Iver is still there under the synth, into the next album and the next, miles miles miles. That he can build up and progress and keep us with him, and still genuinely evoke those same tensions, those same wordless emotions, lyricless empathies and shivering goose-bumps, touching those same strings; lines; continuities; chords and congruences. A beautiful album, a beautiful shift.
In anticipation of the new album I'd read a number of reviews on 'Bon Iver' and one mentioned that there was an element of Bruce Hornsby's work in one of the songs. Now, Hornsby's 'The Way It Is' is one of my all time favourite songs so I was hugely looking forward to seeing how this was going to fit in. After listening through the album, an album of several instantly fantastic songs including one of the best album openers I've heard in a long time (Perth), I failed to hear any such Hornsby-influence, until... The final song on the album, Beth/Rest. Even if the Hornsby reference hadn't twigged, I still think this song would have stood out for me. One of those songs that you secretly love thinking that no-one else does, when in fact, everyone's thinking the same thing. Not one you'd play at a party, but it's on every playlist you've made recently. A mellow and uplifting end to a great album.
PERTH!
Holocene without a doubt for me, Bon Iver at their best. In this track it feels Justin Vernon is not getting too caught up in the possibilities he could explore in a new album but instead touching on the themes and heart of their debut album... a feel that theres still a part of him up in the woods and that cabin...
Holocene. *This where the amateur music journalist bit goes*
calgary... Earthy vocals, woodsy guitar and moist and enchanting drums. Pure beauty!!!!
I guess everyone on the track, since i do not afford to buy prenium i hope to win so i can hear Bon Iver Live, and the tracks for the first time!
Beth/Rest is by far the best track off this album. It resembles some of his earlier songs off "self Record' performed under his name Justin Vernon. Truly great album, a lo-FI sound yet with effortless brilliance. The warm string sound with the overdriven guitar are a perfect match on Beth/Rest, yet one aspect which makes it easy to choose from the rest is the 80's sounding piano. Amazing.
Perth, hands down. Not only an outstanding opening to a song with the guitar riff but to the album itself. I like how the song develops and kicks in.. Conjures up so many emotions and feelings. It's amazing how a song can do that yet still seem so effortless and simple. An album to be shared with someone special. Absolutely amazing song & album.
It used to be Wisconsin, for some reason it was quite the Christmas song for me and my girlfriend. Now Beth/Rest is. Bon Iver is very important to us, they're like a soundtrack to our relationship.
Beth/Rest - I can understand why this song my not be as popular to other people as the rest of the album, it's kind of hard to understand for some people - all the pure musicianship that went through it. But for me, this represents everything I love about Bon Iver, it couldn't be more flawless. Hands down it's Beth/Rest that made the album what it is, the lyrics have become very personal to me, with an organic synthesizer sound that makes this song a classic, not many people can pull that off.
Perth is eaaaaaaaasily my favorite song, such a nice vibe like his slightly earlier stuff, love it!!
my favourite is Calgary. I love ambient and relaxing music
My favourite track is holocene; the album has a variety of tracks and it was hard to pinpoint my favourite. I wasnt so keen on Lisbon was quite religious sounding
Although his first album is fantastic, it's fantastic to see him do something different and do it so well. Beth/Rest exemplifies this- despite the fact the opening keyboard riff could be seen as corny and refers back to unhip 80s sounds, he builds a superb song around it, possibly the album's best
Beth/Rest because I had to double check I wasn't listening to Phil Collins. Great track and great album!
I love Calgary - a beautiful track from the band who produce gorgeous music!
Paris & Calgary are both beautiful tracks.
Calgary - so mellow and beautiful