Yahoo Lifestyle Bon Iver Announces New Album ‘SABLE, fABLE’ With John Wilson-Directed Music Video
Justin Vernon’s band Bon Iver is returning with a new album.
The record — “SABLE, fABLE” — is set to be released on April 11 via Jagjaguwar. It follows the critically-acclaimed three-song EP “SABLE,” which was released in October.
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The first single “Everything Is Peaceful Love” is set to arrive this Friday, which happens to be Valentine’s Day. John Wilson, the mastermind of the brilliant HBO series “How to With John Wilson,” directed a music video for the single, which will also drop on Friday.
The background of the album was explained in a wonderfully Bon Iver-coded press release:
“Produced by Justin Vernon and Jim-E Stack, ‘SABLE, fABLE’ was primarily recorded at Vernon’s April Base in Wisconsin, after years that the studio spent laying dormant during a renovation. The conceptual genesis for the album occurred on 2.22.22, when Stack arrived at the Base with Danielle Haim. Snowed in for multiple days, Vernon and Haim’s voices intertwined on ‘If Only I Could Wait,’ a duet with crucial perspective, about not having the strength to be the best version of yourself outside the glow of new love.
“If ‘SABLE,’ was the prologue, then ‘fABLE’ is the book – but together, ‘SABLE, fABLE’ is the album, and for that reason it is no fairy tale. There may be something undeniably healing about infatuation, and the intense clarity, focus, honesty and celebration it brings to these songs. ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love’ is the portrait of a man overwhelmed with happiness upon meeting the one he will fall in love with. But the shadow of ‘SABLE,’ still looms, and old feelings can return, even after one has put in the work to reset and start fresh.
“Like fables, each track instills a lesson, and ‘fABLE’ is about the selfless rhythm required when one is enmeshed with another person or lover – a patient commitment to finding the pace for betterness, and togetherness. Gone are the evasive and dense layers of sound that guarded Justin Vernon’s voice on ‘i,i’ and ’22, A Million.’ The previous four albums were a cycle of seasons that is now complete; ‘SABLE, fABLE’ is a canvas for truth laid bare.”
See the track list and the album cover below.
“SABLE, fABLE” tracklist:
THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS
S P E Y S I D E
AWARDS SEASON
Short Story
Everything Is Peaceful Love
Walk Home
Day One (ft. Dijon and Flock of Dimes)
From
I’ll Be There
If Only I Could Wait (ft. Danielle Haim)
There’s A Rhythmn
Au Revoir
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