Bon Iver - Everything is Peaceful Love (EP)

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Just added to Spotify last week. Only heard the title track so far and it’s lovely

 
Mm! I tried making a thread about the actual EP way back when and was met with tumbleweed :( , so assumed that no one here gave a damn about Bon Iver. Nice to know that that's not the case! 'Everything Is Peaceful Love' has been tacked on to SABLE, for reasons unbeknownst to myself, but I think it's meant to be seen as the lead single from the upcoming album? It doesn't really fit in sonically with the other songs on the EP, and I gotta say that I'm not feeling it at all, which is a little upsetting as I adore Bon Iver and have been craving a new record forever. 'Hope' and lush overproduction à la i,i is not what I need from Justin & co. in 2025. I love the other tracks on the EP though - 'Speyside' in particular might have worked its way into my Bon Iver top ten - so I'm going to remain optimistic about SABLE, fABLE (tho I'm fully over the RANDOM CAPS/SYMBOLS in an otherwise amazing discography!).
 
I wish I could love this more. Bon Iver has been the main soundtrack to my many descents and tumults of recent years, so I'm wondering if there's something inside me that's stubbornly resistant to this tonal shift into optimism. Unsurprisingly, I prefer the sparse gloom of SABLE, to the lush dreamscapes of fABLE - but I'll note that it took a while to fall fully in love with the EP last year, so maybe 'Disc 2' will continue to grow on me. There's some great stuff here: the segue from SABLE, into fABLE via 'Short Story' is wondrous, the actual sound of sunlight flooding into the darkness and washing away all the suffering within; 'Day One' is the kind of rousing sermon that I need more of in my world ('you get sad enough because it's all you seek'); 'From' is one of the best straight-up pop songs in the Bon Iver oeuvre. A lot of the pre-released stuff that I wasn't so hot on ('Everything Is Peaceful Love', 'Walk Home', 'If Only I Could Wait') also plays better when considering the wider album and what it's trying to achieve. I guess I'm not as ready as Justin Vernon to let the light in (BROODING and TORTURED is a look that one wears so well after all :disco: ), but I like the idea of someone who's mined despair to such beautiful effect deciding to step out and definitively embrace hope. There's something admirable in that, and perhaps it'll make more sense to me one day.
 

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