The story of Bon Iver is a familiar one: A guy hits a rough patch in life, isolates himself in a cabin for three long winter months, and then emerges with an album’s worth of great songs. For Emma, Forever Ago ranks way up there with the best releases of the past year. Not only is it difficult to pick one song from the album to highlight, it’s a chore to decide which performance of Skinny Love to use. This one’s unique in that it shows the band playing in an intimate setting and never really shows Justin Vernon’s face. Instead you get an idea of what it looks like when you’ve written a great song and your audience acknowledges it. It must beat staring at a cabin wall…
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Great write-up. The jury is still out on him/them for me. I like the lyrics and I like the back story, but not sure about the singing. I might have to listen to some other songs.
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