Bon Iver has announced SABLE, fABLE , the act’s first album in six years, to be released on April 12 on Jagjaguwar.
Justin Vernon‘s new album is a love story set to lush, radiant pop music. While the record begins with the vulnerable unburdening of last autumn’s three-song SABLE, EP, the triptych seamlessly gives way to a new nine-song saga in which one person becomes two, darkness turns to salmon-coloured beauty, and sadness transforms to unbridled joy. Where SABLE, is a sparse and solitary reckoning with a pain that long-defined the past, fABLE looks towards a vibrant future filled with light, purpose and possibility: a partner, new memories, perhaps a family.
Speaking about the ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love‘ single and video, which was shot and edited by filmmaker John Wilson, of HBO’s How To with John Wilson., Justin Vernon explains:
‘I knew what kind of record I wanted to make the day we made ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love.’ I always knew that would be the feeling I wanted to share first. I wanted the video to just be people smiling uncontainably. Luckily, Eric Timothy Carlson suggested getting in touch with John Wilson from How To with John Wilson. Simply the most poignant and hilarious program in all of Television. We were extremely fortunate that John liked the idea. He went out, shot a bunch of fun stuff, and edited it all to the song. It gives me what I want for this album, all in one video. The idea that happiness and joy are the highest form and the true buoyancy of survival, and even taking yourself less seriously could heal the world.’
The album tracklisting is as follows (and the following punctuation is correct!)
1. THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS
2. S P E Y S I D E
3. AWARDS SEASON
4. Short Story
5. Everything Is Peaceful Love
6. Walk Home
7. Day One (feat. Dijon and Flock of Dimes)
8. From
9. I’ll Be There
10. If Only I Could Wait (feat. Danielle Haim)
11. There’s A Rhythmn
12. Au Revoir
