Already the predecessor debut album by Bon Iver (Franz Bon Hiver -. Good winter) aka Justin Vernon 'For Emma, Forever Ago' impressively demonstrated that there is still quite serious, and above all highly talented singer / songwriters today. With high expectations and great anticipation I could finally 3 days before the new plant Bon Iver (Self Titled) insert in my playlist and was not disappointed this time - on the contrary, that what Vernon delivers here verges on endless beauty. You will immediately notice its very einprägsamme falsetto voice is the forth repeatedly between high falsetto and deep baritone and forth switched. Musically, the band has also evolved considerably. Many new instrumental elements were installed in the songs. Example: Beth / Rest sounds like a mid-80s Synthypop tearjerker with flavored jazz, but which knows itself yet again clearly deducted from Discoeinheitsbrei the next moment. Everything sounds like a unified whole. Vernon is building sound walls, which act threatening fragile, yet at any moment seem to explode. No song is like the other, but would stylistically as well as atmospherically pass as brother and sister.
Lyrically converts Vernon on this LP again on paths of perfection. Intelligent, graceful, melancholy, visionary, creative and above all full of love and feeling would probably most appropriate words. At the latest with this masterpiece Justin Vernon ranked in the league of the greatest musical poet of our time such as Bob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens, Ben Cooper, Kristian Matsson, Jose Gonzalez, Colin Meloy, Peter Broderick, Ben Gibbard, Conor Oberst or Robin Pecknold with a ,
Conclusion: Timeless masterpiece with an unspeakable atmosphere and profound texts - goose bumps guaranteed. To tip of the iceberg, it is not far off, go on Bon Iver.
