bon iver | 22, A Million
Bon Iver (Justin Jordan) is that weird celestial being sent from space dust to brush up against our lame asses. He’s elucidating our understanding of what music can be. Vernon, is kinda like in hands of a raggedy-bearded shamanistic Miles Davis in anti-black face. This 22, A Million release is extraterrestrial sound ejaculate stitched lovingly against our collective eardrums and I love it. The tracks, there’s ten of them, shed majestically as they undress within our presence, at times coyly in half whisper, other times a direct (albeit hushed) inquiry into the upper and lower registers of need masquerading as want. The opening track 22 (OVER S∞∞N) is the equivalent of an Islamic call to prayer. A Western world’s quasi-adhan urging us to pivot our ears east and follow the progression of these quaint and beautiful sounds across the audio skyline and may the sun never set.
Once you press play there is nothing else, allow the music to mend you, for aren’t we all in need of mending? Stand out tracks, 10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠, 21 M♢♢N WATER, and 33 “GOD”. Honestly, this is a body of work best enjoyed in its entirety and not dissected. Peace.
Artist: Bon Iver
Release: 22, A Millon
Label: Jagjaguwar
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Tracklist:
01 22 (OVER S∞∞N)
02 10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠
03 715 – CRΣΣKS
04 33 “GOD”
05 29 #Strafford APTS
06 666 ʇ
07 21 M♢♢N WATER
08 8 (circle)
09 ____45_____
10 00000 Million
33 “GOD” Lyrics
Is the company stalling?
We had what we wanted your eyes
With no word from the former
I’d be happy as hell, if you stayed for tea
(I know so well that this is all there is)
This is how we grow now, woman
A child ignored
These will just be places to me now
The foreman is down
(When we leave this room it’s gone)
We’re rising the stairs
We find God and religions to
Staying at the Ace Hotel
If the calm would allow
I would just be floating now
It would make me pass to let it pass on
I’m climbing the dash, that skin
Well, we walked up on that bolt in the street
After you tied me in in the driveway of the apartment of his bed
Sent your sister home in a cab
Said I would’ve walked across any thousand lands
(No not really if you can’t)
I didn’t
All my goodness
(I’ll be looking through your eyes)
(I’ll be looking through your eyes)
All my goodness to show
(Why are you so far from saving me?)
(Why are you so far from saving me?)
Songwriters: Justin Vernon
33 “GOD” lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.