Bon Iver - 22, A Million - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2019 , Bon Iver's most expansive, joyful and generous album to date. If For Emma, Forever Ago was the crisp, heart-strung isolation of a northern Winter; Bon Iver the rise and whirr of burgeoning Spring; and 22, A Million, a blistering, Inchcrazy energyInch Summer record, i, i completes the cycle a fall record; Autumn-colored, ruminative, steeped. The autumn of Bon Iver is a celebration of self-acceptance and gratitude, bolstered by community and delivering the bounty of an infinite American music. The sales and accolades are well-known - multiple Gold albums, multiple Grammys, chart-topping collaborations and festival headlines. But even more significantly, with each Bon Iver quietly shifts the state of modern music. From the boundaries of folk, to the rules of autotune, to production work for others, Bon Iver's fingerprint finds it's way across the mainstream every time. Vernon has always been a master collaborator, and on i, i that desire becomes maximal, with guests ranging from Moses Sumney and Bruce Hornsby to Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Here, the music - and band, and themes, and creative space - are bigger than ever.

Bon Iver's three-song collection SABLE, was a prologue miredin darkness, a controlled burn clearing the way for newpossibilities. fABLE is the book that follows. Where SABLE,was a work of solitude, fABLE is an outstretched hand.Radiant, ornate pop music gleams around Vernon's voice as hefocuses on a new and beautiful era.On every song, his eyes are locked with one specific person. It'slove, which means there's an intense clarity, focus, and honestywithin fABLE. It's a portrait of a man flooded and overwhelmedby that first meeting (InchEverything Is Peaceful LoveInch). There's atableau defined by S*x and irrepressible desire (InchWalkHomeInch). This is someone filled with light and purpose seeingan entire future right in front of him a partner, new memories,maybe a family.There's something undeniably healing about infatuation.Cleaving to someone else can feel like light pouring in from adoor that's suddenly swung wide. But there's a reason SABLE, isof a piece with fABLE; the shadow still rears it's head in lightertimes. Even when you've reached a new chapter, you'll still findyourself back in your own foundational muck. A fable isn't afairy tale. There's good stuff unbridled joy and trips to Spain.But fables aren't hinged on happy endings; they're here to instilla lesson.As the album winds to a close, he acknowledges the need forpatience and a commitment to put in the work. There's aselfless rhythm required when you're enmeshing yourself withanother person. The song-and by extension the entire album-is a pledge. He's ready to find that pace.

Expanded 10th anniversary edition of Bon Iver's highly acclaimed sophomore Bon. This edition features five songs from Bon Iver's beautiful AIR Studios session, which captures the grand spirit of Bon Iver, Bon Iver and distills it into sharper focus, as Justin Vernon and Sean Carey perform the songs as a duo, on grand pianos and vocals only.