Bon Iver: Bon Iver Bon Iver (specifically lead singer and mastermind Justin Vernon) first entered our consciousness about 3 years ago with the brilliant but sobering debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago. Armed with a guitar, a few mics and a makeshift drum kit, Vernon recorded the album alone in a cabin in rural Wisconsin. Encompassing [...]
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The Best Albums of 2011: #1
Posted in Best Of Lists, Music, tagged Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago, Justin Vernon, The Best Albums of 2011 on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Early Album Review: Bon Iver [Bon Iver]
Posted in Good Vibrations, Music, tagged Bon Iver, Justin Vernon on May 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rating: 9.6 Release Date: June 21, 2011 Label: 4AD Bon Iver (or specifically lead singer and mastermind Justin Vernon) first entered our consciousness about 3 years ago with the brilliant but sobering debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago. Armed with a guitar, a few mics and a makeshift drum kit, Vernon recorded the album alone [...]
The Best Albums of 2010
Posted in Best Of Lists, Music, tagged Bon Iver, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Nicki Manaj, Rick Ross on December 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I realize this is cheating, but I had no choice. I thoroughly enjoyed each of these albums but in different ways. While How I Got Over may be the album I bumped the most in 2010, I couldn’t ignore the shear brashness of Kanye West’s most recent album- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. So I split [...]
Good Vibrations
Posted in Good Vibrations, Music, tagged Bon Iver, High Violet, Justin Vernon, Matt Berninger, Sufjan Stevens, The National on May 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The National: High Violet Rating: 9.2 Label: 4AD Release Date: May 11, 2010 Reminds me of: Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens If there was ever any question that The National was capable of being one of the few bands to define today’s musical landscape, High Violet – their fifth full-length studio album – should [...]
The Greatest Albums of the 2000s
Posted in Music, tagged Bon Iver, Justin Vernon on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
#8. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago (2007): Writing songs about heartache is nothing new. In fact, entire genres (blues, country music) of music are almost entirely about the subject. As a result, devoting an album to the feeling of a love lost doesn’t always come across well……. enter in Justin Vernon. Recording under the [...]
