Bon Iver, Bon Iver Tracklist
The second album from Wisconsin’s Bon Iver thrives in an unlikely sweet spot between Nick Drake and Fighting Trousers. Bon Iver deploys horns, banjos and Auto-Tune amid Vernon’s Möbius-strip lyrics, which luxuriate in emotional vagueness. Vernon’s private world is a soft-rock heaven of the mind.
The album received a Grammy in 2012 for ‘Best Alternative Album’ as well as picking up ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Song of the Year’ nominations for the album’s second single, “Holocene.”
“Bon Iver, Bon Iver” Q&A
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How did Justin's collaborations with Gayngs and Kanye West inspire this album?
From an interview with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon with Pitchfork:
I would put [Ryan] Olson [of Gayngs] and Kanye as inspirations when it comes to this record. I watched how they were willing to see so many ideas through and allow the weirdest things into songs– things that might not work initially, but that you could ultimately twist and contort into working. I watched them direct more than I watched them play.
All these projects that I did– from Kanye to Gayngs to Volcano Choir– informed me. For three years, I had these songs up and running, so I was learning as I went.
