Bon Iver
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Bon Iver
Bon Iver is the second studio album from American indie folk band Bon Iver, released on June 17, 2011. The album is composed of 10 songs and was seen as a new musical direction for the band. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Justin's Vernon's project started out low-key and largely solo but has grown into an expansive and ambitious full-band affair with brilliant results.
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Consequence of Sound
What we got was another beast entirely: a beast almost as beautiful as its predecessor, only in a completely different way, which is, in a manner of speaking, the highest compliment we can pay Bon Iver.
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Rolling Stone
Vernon is more than a bearded indie rocker with a taste for rural roots music. He’s a soul auteur, and he’s just getting started.
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Billboard
Shines overall.
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BBC
One of 2011’s most absorbing, affecting and downright brilliant LPs.
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Clash Music
A wonderful, worthy follow-up.
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The Washington Post
It’s the sound of pop music trying to figure out what it must become in a new century, gently turning itself inside out, showing off its gorgeous guts.
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Chunky Glasses
Bon Iver is best Peter Gabriel album released in almost 20 years.
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Escape Into Life
The pain-stricken power of the début remains, but this time the awesome force of Vernon’s voice and guitar are augmented by additional instrumentation, without sacrificing the simple, pared-back feeling which so characterised For Emma.
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Entertainment Weekly
Vernon achieves a beautiful fantasy all his own, backed by a full band and buoyed with horns and pedal steel.
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What Culture
Bon Iver has successfully emerged from the cabin and entered, triumphantly into the world.
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Soundblab
Bon Iver's high, soft songwriting voice is coming from the same place, with the unmistakably epic orchestral sound we have come to know and fall in love with, which he created on For Emma.
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Express
Justin Vernon’s second album is struck through with a similar vein of ghostly beauty to his widely acclaimed debut For Emma, Forever Ago.
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Plugged In
Bon Iver is the epitome of indie hip: beautiful, enigmatic … and occasionally profane.
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The Austin Chronicle
The expansive arrangements fill the edges of Bon Iver, Bon Iver's sound without losing Vernon's haunting aesthetic, balancing both a fullness and ethereality.
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All Music
Though he can be praised for not just copying himself and trying to progress, to be honest, For Emma, Pt. 2 would have been far more satisfying than this overblown debacle.
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Now It's On
Coming in at just under 40 minutes, "Bon Iver" is a journey through different locales, moods and emotions, but what sets it apart from Vernon's debut is how much warmer the whole thing feels.
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The Know
The music on “Bon Iver” is so unabashedly pretty and because in the closing “Beth / Rest,” Vernon embraces his inner Bruce Hornsby to point out one possible avenue to soft-rock stardom.
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The Traveler
Bon Iver is known for their beautifully complex lyrics, and those certainly shine in this album.
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The Music Ninja
It’s a beautiful album, even if the more 80s inspired electric offerings turn you off slightly, and one that I will certainly be listening to throughout the years.
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Folk Radio
This record is a fascinating listen.
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Under the Radar
This album is magnificent, but really, I never expected anything less from Vernon.
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Vocals On Top
Vernon could have taken Bon Iver in one of two directions on this record, he simply took it the other way than what I would have preferred.
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Edmonton Journal
All the right moves, indeed.
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Under the Radar Mag
Thisis a brave and emboldening record in a frightened world.
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No Ripcord
Bon Iver embarks on a sustainable new direction for the band and is evidence of a successful transition from one-off wonder to durable outfit.
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WBEZ
Dreadfully cheesy.
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