Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
I'm trying to imagine the headlines when this album first came out & the reviews started flooding in,....
"quiet indie-folk soul man Justin Vernon escapes society & pens lonely, subtle masterpiece in snowy Wisconsin cabin,...."
or
"mellow-gloom ghost tunes conjure spirit of early Neil Young acoustic tracks after tense break up of artists' former band".
The album itself bears much resemblance to the physical location of its inception: isolation, beauty, & natural imagery, while also displaying a beautiful, but broken spirit- & who's this Emma chick? She surely enacted enough grief & sorry upon our hero for a record's worth of brilliant gems.
Bon Iver literally translates to something along the lines of "long winter" in French, hopefully we'll have another long winter with Vernon as his follow up to For Emma, comes out in early 2009. Oh & I just scored tickets to see Bon Iver tonight in Louisville, KY. How fitting!
1 comment:
Sounds like something I would like!
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