I fell in love with Bon Iver’s music from the moment I heard them on youtube.
This album feels like a warm blanket on a very cold night. And it figures, since it was apparently composed during a 3 month stay at a winter cabin somewhere in northern USA (check the album's Wikipedia) by Justin Vernon.
In For Emma, Justin’s layered voice conveys an incredible sense of solitude and contemplation of things and of feelings.
The winter is omnipresent in this album, and it serves as a metaphor for something resembling melancholy. But from a point of view of someone who has lived, matured and who understands that the past is the past, and that all experiences are unique.
I recommend Blindsided and re: stacks as an introduction to this bands music.
Reminds me of: winter, Boards of Canada, Eric Serra The Big Blue (ouverture) (for the atmosphere, even though it's the sea)..
9/10 Highly recommended. It will warm you up.
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