Bon Iver...simply the fact that my name is included in the name of the first album makes me love them.
Songs to listen to:
- For Emma - Skinny Love
- Holocene - The Wolves {Act I & II}
- Calgary - Re: Stacks
- Blood Bank - Blindsided
- Perth - Tower
- Creature Fear - Flume
Bon Iver amazes me. I've listened to them for a few years now and they are just starting to get big; the fame is well-deserved. The singer, Justin Vernon, has a voice that can be beautiful, strong, piercing, vulnerable, and haunting all at the same time. It is absolutely beautiful.The album For Emma, Forever Ago, is pure brilliance. No joke. I don't say that simply because my name is Emma, although that is the reason i first decided to listen to it :D It is so heartbreakingly beautiful, and it just keeps getting better and better and better the more you listen to it. I listen to it at night when i fall asleep, it's comforting to drift away to.
Their new album Bon Iver is also incredible! My favorite song is Holocene; everytime i listen to it i feel like crying. But it's one of those songs that make you feel so much. And they lyrics...to die for.
“Someway, baby, it’s part of me, apart from me.”
you’re laying waste to Halloween
you fucked it friend, it’s on it’s head, it struck the street
you’re in Milwaukee, off your feet
…and at once I knew I was not magnificent
strayed above the highway aisle
(jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles
3rd and Lake it burnt away, the hallway
was where we learned to celebrate
automatic bought the years you’d talk for me
that night you played me ʻLip Paradeʼ
not the needle, nor the thread, the lost decree
saying nothing, that’s enough for me
Christmas night, it clutched the light, the hallow bright
above my brother, I and tangled spines
we smoked the screen to make it what it was to be
now to know it in my memory.
So to sum it up: Please. Do yourself a huge favor: look up Bon Iver and listen. I promise it will beautiful :)
xx
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