Saturday, June 18, 2011

Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver

Lyrical snapshot from the highly anticipated sophomore release of Justin Vernon and his band Bon Iver:

"Iʼm tearing up, acrost your face
move dust through the light
to fide your name
it’s something fane
this is not a place
not yet awake, I’m raised of make


still alive who you love
still alive who you love
still alive who you love


in a mother, out a moth
furling forests for the soft
gotta know been lead aloft
so I’m ridding all your stories
what I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!


you’re breaking your ground."

Some pretty far-flung abstracted symbology going on there, you'd be forgiven thinking. But in its sonic context it works perfectly. It works so well in fact, I think I'm about ready to forgive him for that final track on the album - the wholly ironic-less smelly piece of 80s cheese - Beth/Rest.



Written by Justin Vernon with Andre Durand and Dan Huiting
Directed by Andre Durand and Dan Huiting
Produced by Daniel Cummings and Picture Machine Productions

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