For Emma, Forever Ago [Vinyl]

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago [Vinyl]

For Emma, Forever Ago [Vinyl]
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Artist: Bon Iver
Edition: Vinyl
CD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Music Label: Jagjaguwar
Soundtracks:
  1. Flume
  2. Lump Sum
  3. Skinny Love
  4. The Wolves (Act I and II)
  5. Blindsided
  6. Creature Fear
  7. Team
  8. For Emma
  9. Re: Stacks

Music reviews of For Emma, Forever Ago [Vinyl]

Music Review: Subtly Beautiful... an album for people who are off in the woods
Rating: 4 Stars

This is a great album to listen to in the fall time with (depending on where you live) all the changing colors and falling leaves. The singers voice is very interesting in my opinion and the album as a whole really grows on you. When I first heard it, I thought it was okay but every time I listen to it I like it more and more.

My one complaint is that it is a VERY short album. My friend burned me this album along with the "Blood Bank" B-side an extra amazing B-side that is not-titled and I have no idea where it came from. So I combine all the song together on my ipod to create, what I think, is a more complete album.

Is this the greatest album of all time? By no means, no. However, there is a lot of passion in it and it is a very unique piece of music. Let me put it this way, if I were only allowed to own 100 albums, this would for sure be in the list.
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Description of For Emma, Forever Ago [Vinyl]

Justin Vernon began recording as Bon Iver following the breakup of DeYarmond Edison, an indie folk group similar in tone and manner to Iron & Wine, Little Wings and, to a certain extent, Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Pronounced 'bohn eevair', it is French for "good winter" which is spelled wrong deliberately. This debut CD is centered around Justin Vernon, who is the primary force behind Bon Iver, as he moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter, alone for three months. From this solitary time emerged a bold, uninhibited new musical focus of all his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss, and guilt that had been stockpiled over the past six years into songs. The NY Times called this record "irresistible", and it was given a "Recommended" rating by Pitchfork. 9 tracks. Jagjaguwar Records. 2008.
It's hard to believe that For Emma, Forever Ago is the work of one man. But when Justin Vernon's old band split he hauled himself (and presumably plenty of instruments and recording equipment) to his dad's hunting cabin in the woods of Wisconsin for the coldest season and worked through his issues in musical form. (The name comes from the French for "good winter"--"bon hiver"). By the start of the spring thaw he had recorded the bulk of this stunning debut, originally self-issued to acclaim last year in the USA and now picked up for a British release. Vernon's voice grabs the ear from the start, switching easily into a smooth falsetto (and unusually for a white indie lad, without the slightest intent of emulating Prince). The formula is straightforward. He layers his vocal harmonies, while a gently strummed acoustic rhythm guitar just about holds the centre. All else from horns to slide guitar is mere detail. The quality is rough and ready but the effect is strangely similar though to the slick vocal confections of European women like Bjork and Camille, all mystery and distance. It's the musical equivalent of reading someone else's diary. In code. Through a dirty window. Enigmatic songs like the elegantly stumbling "Creature Fear" with its rowdy horn parts, the resolute opener "Flume" and the evanescent "Team" are just so pretty they seem to glide by without leaving a mark in the snow. Vernon is apparently a straightforward and friendly guy, but For Emma, Forever Ago genuinely sounds like something from a far off place. --Steve Jelbert

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