Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
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Artist: Bon IverEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Music Label: Jagjaguwar
Soundtracks:
- Flume
- Lump Sum
- Skinny Love
- The Wolves
- Blindsided
- Creature Fear
- Team
- For Emma
- RE: Stacks
Free Music Notes for For Emma, Forever Ago
Free Music Review: Beauty in isolation
Hit: 5 Stars
All I know is that listening to this album is evoking emotions in me that I don't think I have ever experienced from an album before. It's very hard to describe, and the best I can do is probably clich? by now... haunting, desolate, and undeniably beautiful. The emotion is pure... in most songs you can't tell what he's singing about or what the lyrics are, and you don't need to... there's enough audible intention behind them.
I am reading "Into the Wild" for the first time, and the emotion and imagery evoked by that book go remarkably well with what I feel when listening to this. It's a combination I highly recommend! Isolation is a dominate theme in this album, just as it is in the book... perhaps that's what is so powerful about it. It is something I think we all fear... noone wants to believe that when left with just themselves and with nature that they can somehow not feel so alone, that they don't need the presence of others. I think he probably discovered that to some extent in his time out in the woods, and writing this album was the vehicle through which he did. As a result this album is totally isolated as well... emerging with him from the woods as something completely unique, at least from anything I've heard.
Embrace this album and go wherever it takes you!
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Bon Iver's hermit indie-folk (story goes Justin Vernon recorded the album on his own during time spent secluded in the woods) delivers the kind of spare intimacy that only a home-recorded solo album can. For Emma, Forever Ago sounds a bit desolate, admittedly lonely, an enigmatic one-way communication. But, it's awfully beautiful. Vernon's disarming falsetto which sounds like Christopher Cross crossed with Antony Hegarty, oddball tape loops, distorted synthesizers, and nods to modern R&B ("Blindsided") create nuance in otherwise straightforward songs. "Creature Fear" showcases Vernon's imaginative songwriting--take the robust chorus that boldly appears seemingly out of nowhere and later, "For Emma" swells bolstered by a soaring slide-guitar, recalling the best of Calexico. To my ears, Bon Iver's music is nearly an homage to great `70s AM-radio singer-songwriter staples like Seals & Crofts or America, just without the promise of ever whiling away a carefree afternoon driving a sun-drenched highway or sailing off into the sunset. --Gabi KnightAlternative Rock Music CDs
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