![]() The reason I called it that right away, is because I was with a guy that I didn't know very well, but basically, it's a long story, but in the three days we were supposed to spend together - he's a music video maker - in those three days, his best friend ( Heath Ledger) died and he was from Perth. The album's first song "Perth", was the first song that Vernon recorded for the album "The first thing I worked on, the riff and the beginning melodies, was the first song on the record, 'Perth,'" said Vernon. It's also only three miles from the house I grew up in, and just ten minutes from the bar where my parents met." Vernon's reason for recording in the location was that " been a wonderful freedom, working in a place we built. It was converted into April Base Studios, built mainly over the defunct swimming pool attached to the clinic. The album was recorded in a remodeled veterinarian clinic in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, which was bought by Vernon and his brother in 2008. The band announced the release through various media and from the official Jagjaguwar and 4AD websites, on April 20, 2011. "I built the record myself, but I allowed those people to come in and change the scene." The second album is described as an "ambitious musical departure" from the first. "I brought in a lot of people to change my voice – not my singing voice, but my role as the author of this band, this project," said Justin Vernon, band leader and founder, who hired well-known players like bass saxophonist Colin Stetson and pedal-steel guitarist Greg Leisz. ![]() The album won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2012 ceremony, while the song " Holocene" was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.īon Iver's second album was rumored to be titled Letters for Marvin but was later confirmed to be Bon Iver. It received widespread acclaim from critics, some of whom named it one of the best albums of 2011. As of September 2016, the album has sold a total of 629,000 copies in the United States. It sold 104,000 copies in its first week in the United States. The album was commercially successful, debuting at number one on the Norwegian Albums Chart and the Danish Albums Chart, and number two on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album is composed of 10 songs and was seen as a new musical direction for the band. More layered, more diverse, more interesting." Record Collector (magazine) (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 - " glorious celebration of - and experimentation with - sound.This is a luxurious record, with Vernon's simple songs filtered and engorged at every turn." Clash (Magazine) - "hile 'Holocene' and 'Calgary', for example, retain the same spectral beauty of the first album, they're multi-dimensional compositions rather than songs.Bon Iver ( / b oʊ n iː ˈ v ɛər/ officially known as Bon Iver, Bon Iver) is the second studio album from American indie folk band Bon Iver, released on June 17, 2011. ![]() ![]() It's something far too busy and layered to be labeled as mere indie folk." Magnet (p.39) - Ranked #13 in Magnet's '20 Best Albums Of 2011' - "It manages to be both sweeping and widescreen, yet intimate and inviting." CMJ - "This is the sound of a man awake in the world and reaching outward, and it'll make you want to wrap your arms around the entire human race." Paste (magazine) - "It retains the beautiful melancholy of FOR EMMA, but in nearly every way, it's just more. Rolling Stone (p.82) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "'Hinnom, TX' sets off brass and static bursts like distant fireworks 'Minnesota, WI' blends what sounds like banjos with gnarly brass swells and R&B horns." Rolling Stone (p.70) - Ranked #21 in Rolling Stone's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' - "Vernon's private world is a soft-rock heaven of the mind." Spin (p.69) - "Once again, he cultivates an enchanted atmosphere, with gorgeous melodies, unique textures, and beautiful singing." Spin (p.49) - Ranked #14 in Spin's 'The Top 40 Albums Of 2011' - "magine a nice, cozy room full of ambitious friends boldly molding an inscrutable art-folk masterpiece." Entertainment Weekly (p.73) - "n emboldened Vernon achieves a beautiful fantasy all his own, backed by a full band and buoyed with horns and pedal steel." - Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly (p.100) - Ranked #4 in Entertainment Weekly's 'The Top 10 Albums Of 2011' - "is passion for gentle synth jams comes through so clearly, he makes Auto-Tune sound sincere." Uncut (p.34) - Ranked #9 in Uncut's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' - "BON IVER was ambitious, fanatically detailed, but still warm and poignant." Alternative Press (p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "eautiful and heartrending.
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