{"id":2611,"date":"2011-07-26T23:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:19:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:19:04","slug":"bon-iver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/bon-iver\/","title":{"rendered":"BON IVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2612\" title=\"BON-IVER-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BON-IVER-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BON-IVER-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BON-IVER-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>ON IVER<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Bon Iver<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[JAGJAGUWAR]<\/p>\n<p>From obscure indie-folk singer to Kanye West\u2019s secret weapon in a few short years\u2014things have certainly changed for Justin Vernon. He recorded his debut album in a Wisconsin cabin and released it without fanfare under the Bon Iver banner, only to see it become one of the most talked-about records of 2008. Vernon toured hard, contributed to Yeezy\u2019s 2010 album <em>My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy<\/em> and then got to work on a follow-up of his own. And what a follow-up: <em>Bon Iver<\/em> is beautiful, as lush as its predecessor was stark. These songs are at once insular and expansive, Vernon\u2019s wistful double-tracked vocals floating through soundscapes of crystalline acoustic guitar, layers of horns, vocals and ghostly pedal steel guitar. It\u2019s particularly effective on \u201cHolocene,\u201d its three-note guitar motif rising and falling like deep breaths, and on \u201cCalgary,\u201d with Vernon singing in a lonesome falsetto. <em>Bon Iver<\/em> is that magical second record that improves upon the first. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BON IVER Bon Iver [JAGJAGUWAR] From obscure indie-folk singer to Kanye West\u2019s secret weapon in a few short years\u2014things have certainly changed for Justin Vernon. He recorded his debut album in a Wisconsin cabin and released it without fanfare under the Bon Iver banner, only to see it become one of the most talked-about records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2063,2064,1636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}