Bon Iver: Bon Iver – review

(4AD)"And at once I knew I was not magnificent." So sings Justin Vernon in Holocene, his ethereal falsetto serene as he absorbs another of life's burdens and disappointments. The line snags you for two reasons: it's one of the few comprehensible lyrics amid the album's whirlwind of poetic obfuscations; it's also nonsense. Vernon's most magnificent act on this follow-up to 2008's solitary, introspective For Emma, Forever Ago, is to open Bon Iver up to the world. That expansiveness influences ev...

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