This is what might be called an isolation drive. Dropped by his group and his girlfriend (Emma, so), seriously ill, Justin Vernon returned "back home" in northern Wisconsin and isolated in a cabin in the woods. It was there for four months, there created and recorded this album with two twigs and three pieces of string, or almost ... This cathartic introspection born one of the most beautiful folk gems of the decade, nothing less. Driven by a falsetto often doubled, the nine tracks form a smooth and silky melancholy Cathedral, constantly vacillating between affliction and appeasement. The first chords of "Flume" to the enchanting "re-stack", through quasi-pop flashes of "Creature Fear", the splendor is on all floors, both in terms of arrangements of minimalist production. This elegiac grace would almost pass Elliott Smith or Will Oldham incorrigible hard rockers, ie ... The mystery remains whole, however incongruous in the choice of the name, it seems based on a distortion of the French (Good winter?). This is surely the idea of a moose.
