Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
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Free Music Review: The critics will talk about this one all year.
Hit: 5 Stars
Bob Boilen has been raving about this album for a while, and I'm sure every other independent music spokesman has been too. Bon Iver is comprised mainly of Justin Vernon who isolated himself in a cabin in Wisconsin where he wrote this album over the course of a winter. The name Bon Iver is a pun on the French "Bon Hiver" which translates "Good Winter." The music is dark, haunting and entrancing and Vernon's vocals are so unique. The album is decorated with atmospheric harmonies, baritone guitars, twanging sounds, a dash of horns, and masterful production that brings out all of the different colors of winter. Grays, whites, blacks and the like. The lyrics are dark and pensive, and quite obscure. This album will be talked about for a while, since it's clear that something is holding it together as a cohesive unit but quite unclear what it is that is holding it together. I can't wait to drive in light snow with this album on the speakers and see where I end up. Whether you know what he's singing about, Bon Iver is certainly the perfect soundtrack to a bon hiver and this will probably find it's way close to the top of a lot of top albums lists at the end of the year.Free Music Review: This album is simply breathtaking
Hit: 5 Stars
Bought this album a few weeks ago after hearing Re: Tracks online, and it is by far one of the most beautiful albums I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. I can listen to this cd over and over, no matter what kind of mood I'm in. There is an ebb and flow to the track progression that gently kind of pulls you along with the emotions in each. Justin's lyrics are bizaare and heartbreakingly intense in the best way imaginable. He melts words into chords and vice versa. The more you listen, the more you become totally immersed in the "excavation" he ultimately achieved in writing these tracks. My first go at the album in it's entirety led me to a deep place within myself that I hadn't visited in a long time, but as I listen more and more, I'm finding a light in the songs that allows me to shift into a whole new gear with it. I can only hope that he continues to produce songs with the same raw approach and I look forward to everything and anything that he gets his hands on in the future. On that note, if you like Bon Iver, check out his cover of The Rosebud's "Get up, get out". Amazing.Free Music Review: Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
Hit: 5 Stars
After listening to For Emma, Forever Ago, it should come as no surprise that Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, wrote and recorded the majority of the album during his stay in an isolated cabin in northern Wisconsin. The wintry aesthetic translates beautifully into music that evokes soulfulness and pathos. Vernon's haunting falsetto is paired with sparse instrumentation in intimately produced arrangements. For Emma, Forever Ago is a personal affair that deals with love and loss in impressionistic, opaque verses open to interpretation.
Despite the desolate recording backdrop, the album's ambiance is warm and inviting, especially on beautiful acoustic ballads like "Lump Sum" and "Re: Stacks."
Originally self-released in 2007, Jagjaguwar picked up For Emma, Forever Ago for redistribution early this year. Now, as trees grow barren and frost covers the ground, you don't want to miss this album a second time.
Rating: 92/100
Free Music Review: Absolutely Stunning Debut
Hit: 5 Stars
Bon Iver's debut really growed on me. It's become the only thing I want to listen to, because after repeated listens there's more and more depth revealed. His voice is a higher-pitched falsetto, which sounds unique coupled with the indie/folk instrumentation. It's guitar-based, but it's not boring; he uses some orchestral backings and subtle electronic additions/manipulations, but first listen invariably yields the response, "that's beautiful." Perhaps the most striking aspect of this album is the emotion in his voice, especially in "Skinny Love" and "For Emma, Forever Ago," ranging from frustration to sadness to acceptance and hope. This is an uneniably raw, empassioned work by this exceptional songwriter. None of the songs sound the same, and although it's quite short, it begs to be played again. I give it my highest recommendation; a singer-songwriter with real un-commercialized talent.Free Music Review: A rare gem which actually is 100% worthy of the hype
Hit: 5 Stars
I had heard so much about this album before my boyfriend gave it to me to put on my ipod and listen to as he had gotten us tickets to go and see the live version, and this always puts me off - hence I wasn't expecting to love it but basically the reviews which are raving it are all 100% true.
It really is so painful and beautiful and so incredibly personal that it leaves me wondering how Vernon can sing the songs live without weeping. At the gig, he got everyone to sing "what might have been lost" over and over as a 'backing track', which he conducted to reach an amazing crescendo - I was moved to tears. Even more beautiful live, I didn't want to leave and now when I listen to the album on headphones I am transported back to that evening.
Thank you is all I want to say to Justin Vernon, thank you so much for sharing this music