{"product_id":"bon-iver-bon-iver-bon-iver","title":"Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— The Analog Vault \/\/ Essential Listening —\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBon Iver, Bon Iver\u003c\/em\u003e is the second studio album from American indie folk band Bon Iver, originally released in 2011. First it was \u003cem\u003eFor Emma, Forever Ago\u003c\/em\u003e. The soul in a refraction of icicles. A moment hanging like breath on air. And yet life - even still life - is not still. The story is not a story if it does not unravel. Your eyes you may cast backward, but the heart is locked in the chest and must beat forever forward.\u003cem\u003e Bon Iver, Bon Iver\u003c\/em\u003e is the frozen beast pressing upward from a loosening earth, one ear cocked to the echo of the ghost choir still singing, the other craving the martial call of drums tumbling, of thrum and wheeze. The desolation smoke has dissipated, cut with strips of brass. Celebration will not be denied, the cabinet cannot contain the rattle, there is meat on the bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's there right away, in the thicker-stringed guitar and military snare of \"Perth,\" and \"Minnesota, WI.\" Anyone who had a single listen to \u003cem\u003eFor Emma \u003c\/em\u003ewill peg Justin Vernon's vocals immediately, but there is a sturdiness - an insistence - to \u003cem\u003eBon Iver, Bon Iver\u003c\/em\u003e that allows him to escape the cabin in the woods without burning it to the ground. \"Holocene\" opens with simple finger-picking. The vocal is regret spun hollow and strung on a wire. Then the snare-beat breaks and drives us forward and up and up until we fly silent through the black-star night, our wreckage in view whole atmospheres below. The vocals in \"Hinnom, TX\" ease to the muffled depths, while the instrumentation remains sparse and cosmic. \"Calgary\" is a worship song to everything For Emma mourned, and at the point in the final track \"Beth\/Rest\" when Vernon sings, \"I ain't livin' in the dark no more\" it is clear he isn't dancing in the sunshine, but rather shading toward a new light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBon Iver, Bon Iver \u003c\/em\u003ewas recorded and mixed at April Base Studios, a remodeled veterinarian's clinic located in rural Fall Creek, Wisconsin. The main recording space is constructed over a defunct indoor pool attached to the clinic. \"It's an unique space and destination; it's our home out here,\" says Vernon, who purchased the structure with his brother in late 2008 with the sole intention of converting it into his ideal recording studio. \"It's been a wonderful freedom, working in a place we built. It's also only three miles from the house I grew up in, and just ten minutes from the bar where my parents met.\" The creation of \u003cem\u003eBon Iver, Bon Iver \u003c\/em\u003ewas a three-year process, and Vernon says the completion of the studio paralleled the completion of the album. \"I was writing and recording in the windows of time snatched between tours in support of \u003cem\u003eFor Emma,\u003c\/em\u003e\" he says. \"When I finally came home to hunker down for a solid stretch there was a feeling of solid ground and an opportunity for liberation waiting in the space for me.\" — via Label\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2LpfNj3vB5rOXfaawLcOBg?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Jagjaguwar\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Gatefold\u003cbr\u003eReissued: 2017 \/ Original Release: 2011\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Rock\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Folk Rock, Indie Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Alternative \/ Indie \/ Pop\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456476225694,"sku":"656605213514","price":48.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/ab67616d0000b273567b0a6defc057bcbfaedadb.jpg?v=1649750802","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/bon-iver-bon-iver-bon-iver","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}