Bon Iver Bon Iver (CD, 4AD/Jagjaguwar, 2011) ***
Genre: Alt-pop
Places I remember: Music shop in Centre City, New Plymouth - goneburger now; Virgin Megastore - Dubai for Bon Iver.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Flume
Gear costume: Skinny Love
Active compensatory factors: For Emma, Forever Ago was a real revelation back in 2008.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Flume
Gear costume: Skinny Love
I loved the romantic Walden style back story (heading to a remote cabin and recording an album) and when the music matched the idyllic circumstances, it all felt and sounded magical.
The album appeals to a wide range of people too - my youngest daughter's generation loved it as much as mine did. Even Jacky likes it!
Follow-up difficult second album was as successful commercially as For Emma, but it's taken me a while to warm to it. There are echoes of the For Emma style but it's, quite rightly, it's own album.
Where do they all belong? Justin Vernon has got a little too wacky for me on subsequent releases so I'll stick with these two.
Where do they all belong? Justin Vernon has got a little too wacky for me on subsequent releases so I'll stick with these two.
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