Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
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Free Music Review: Winter's Soundtrack
Hit: 4 Stars
It seems that everywhere I've gone worth going to lately, this album has been playing. Musically it is both the soft blanket of snow on a desolate landscape, and the flannel blanket wrapped around you by the fire in the cabin. That's the only way to describe what it's like to listen to this album. Some listeners may be turned off by Justin Vernon's high-pitched, folksy, strangely not-quite-falsetto, but I can't imagine anyone truly not being able to enjoy this album as a companion to a cup of hot chocolate and a book.Free Music Review: Unlike anything I have heard before...
Hit: 4 Stars
The album "For Emma, Forever Ago" is simply a breath of fresh air. I have never heard anything like it. I read in a magazine article how Bon Iver had been compared to Iron and Wine, and I love I&W, so I decided to check out the album. I was amazed at the pure vulnerability that is heard on this record. Reading the lyrics and listening to the songs are the best way to experience this one of a kind, genuinely original sound.Free Music Review: Haunting Beautiful
Hit: 4 Stars
Get this CD! The lone falsetto voice and spare instrumentals make this a hauntingly beautiful work.Free Music Review: It's mellowy goodness!
Hit: 4 Stars
I like to chill and listen to Bon Iver. It makes me happy. This is good.Free Music Review: I hear...
Hit: 3 Stars
...a man who desperately needs a producer and a band, and the ability to vary and extend his singing voice.
Maybe he's trying to maintain his "indie cred," but that, like this album, often leads to drawn out boredom with the exception of 2-3 excellent songs.
He has a great voice and is obviously a multi-track production home pro, and has the ability to write very good songs and has a mind for making good, fairly authentic/original guitar oriented music.
It would be nice if he could come out of his shell a bit and explore his music. The fact he had to be alone to record this tells you all you need to know about someone who still seems to be insecure about his talents. I suppose that's cute and admirable for only so long.
The first 3-4 tracks are stand outs and the CD settles into a predictably monotonous drone after that, for the most part. I suppose it's also not the hip indie thing to do, for all those tattoo'd, bearded peers out there listening, to make lyrics intelligeable while listening for the most part. Most of these songs are purposefully muddied up with effects, and often might as well be someone humming. The songs themselves aren't quite strong or memorable enough to hold their own, aside from the CD's first few tracks, as I mentioned.
I like his music, but all you hear is lost potential and someone afraid to break out of the all too common singer/songwriter mumbling, strumbling, emotion clinging mold.
A CD like this for many people seems to be all you'd need of his, any more and it just gets tiring, no matter what mood you're in - maybe a great CD or MP3 shuffle rotation inclusion, it really is the only "singer/songwriter" music I can usually stand outside of Neil Young. So I suppose that's saying something.