Bon Iver

My good friend Elysia showed me the music of Bon Iver recently. I didn't pay much attention to him until today. His album "For Emma, Forever Ago" is some of the best music I have ever heard. I truly feel like I've found one of the most important musical creations I'll ever find in my lifetime. One of the highlights:














"Someday my pain, someday my pain
Will mark you
Harness your blame, harness your blame
And walk through

With the wild wolves around you
In the morning, I'll call you
Send it farther on"

~ The Wolves (Act I and II)

The tenderness and strength in his falsetto is so far unparalleled. When he sings in his normal register, it's like he's taking whatever painful and joyful events from his life that inspired this album and slamming them into you; they become you.

He spent three months in isolation in a cabin in Wisconsin, and this album was the result. Iver's myspace has two songs on it that perfectly capture the epic, simple, complicated, sincere power and soul that he somehow harnessed.

This music is feeding my soul. It's making me believe in God. It's healing me.

I tell my love to wreck it all

Cut out all the ropes and let me fall

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

Right in the moment this order's tall