Part love letter, part final resting place of two decades of searching for self-understanding like a religion. Many music publications quoted a press release from Justin’s long-time friend, Trever Hagen on Augthat states his new album is this. The song titles, also on the side of strange, each including particular numbers.
I search for his album art to find a conglomeration of even more questionable black and white symbols with what looks like to be a modified square yin & yang sign, placed in the middle of the artwork.
Scroll down, and you’ll see merchandise available for purchase featuring the same questionable images. The front page of the Bon Iver website flashes similar symbols in a way where one might suggest an attempt of subliminal messaging. Intrigued, I decided to do some researching. A few days after the festival, a friend and Eau Claire resident added this photo on facebook. I returned home to the nine to five job waiting for me. To conclude the concert, Justin was very thankful of the festival-goers who paid $100+ to be in his presence and in return offered his yet-to-be-released album, 22, A Millionfor a gracious five dollars. The intros were lengthy, oftentimes could not decipher the chorus, and the performances ended unexpectedly.
#BON IVER 22 MILLION SONG NOTES FULL#
Watch Bon Iver’s full concert performance here.Īlthough, Vernon’s songs lacked the expected structure of what the industry holds music to. His new material was familiar to that of Coldplay, particularly drawing similarities to their track, Midnight. None-the-less, I sat back and enjoyed his electronically layered harmonies of falsetto vocals, paired with unusual sounding instruments. His laptop perched atop and microphone hiding his face, it was difficult to get a satisfied visual. Wearing a dark grey zip-up sweatshirt, a blue bandanna tied around his neck and an old school Minnesota Timberwolves cap covering unkempt hair, Justin Vernon sat down on a small bench in front of a Prophet-6. Suddenly, a roar of cheering interrupted my conversation with a friend, causing us both to steer our attention to a man walking out onto the middle of the stage. It was difficult not to notice the array of hieroglyphic-styled symbols shown on the LED background panels as they lit up our faces. The night had turned from a slightly miserable experience to a beautiful and calm atmosphere as fans eagerly and quietly waiting for bodies to appear on the bare stage. Oddly enough, just before Bon Iver was scheduled to perform, it had completely stopped raining. It had been raining most of the day, which caused me to spend a majority of my time under the Lagunitas IPA beer tent and the Visit Eau Claire streamliner talking with my friends from The Millenium. I had the opportunity to observe his performance that Friday night. On August 12, 2016, Justin was scheduled to perform a setlist of songs from his new album at Eaux Claires, a music festival he brought to life, hosted in the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin (2017 dates and pre-sale tickets available here). So naturally, when the news finally leaked of his 2016 record, fans were ecstatic. It has been nearly five years since Justin has released a full-length since Bon Iver, Bon Iver. Time seemed to have sped up and passed Justin as he had become more and more busy, yet no new Bon Iver album was to be seen or heard of. Watch Vernon and West’s most recent collaboration, here. West is a public figure who conspiracy theorists strongly believe is apart of the Illuminati, among many other iconic celebrities within the entertainment industry. Word spread like wildfire that he and rapper Kanye West were working together on new material.
Since then, Justin has reached far above and beyond he had believed he would ever reach within his music career. Vernon recorded his debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago independently in July of 2007 in a small cabin in mid-west Wisconsin, where he spent three months tucked away in the woods of Fall Creek, WI, home to his DIY recording studio, self-named “April Base”.Ī few short years after his first album release under the new name Bon Iver, Justin unexpectedly won the 2012 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album for his album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver. Bon Iver, (a French phrase for “Good winter”) is an American indie folk band founded in 2007 by Wisconsin native, Justin Vernon.
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