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This album is equal amounts sad and beautiful. Mr. Bon Iver did it once again! Truly one of the greatest of our times.
Favorite track: AWARDS SEASON.
practicepadanddrumming
Justin, thank you so much for such a beautiful production. Your music has saved me so many times in my lifetime. This bright, joyful, recent release is something that my soul was craving for the last few months. Much love from a Guatemalan guy living in the US. Thank you for the music.
Favorite track: AWARDS SEASON.
thejoeybird
beautiful album, layered, accessible, funky, bright and sunny. If Only I Could Wait is stunning, can't stop listening to it
Favorite track: If Only I Could Wait.
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Bon Iver’s three-song collection SABLE, was an act of vulnerability and unburdening. Written and recorded at a breaking point, they were songs of reflection, fear, depression, solitude, and atonement. The word “sable” implies darkness, and in that triptych, Justin Vernon sought to unpack some long-compounded pain. Then, at the tail end of its final track “AWARDS SEASON,” there’s the barest thread of a lighter melody—a drone, a glimmer, an ember, hope for something more. SABLE, was the prologue, a controlled burn clearing the way for new possibilities. fABLE is the book. Stories of introduction and celebration. The fresh growth that blankets the charred ground. Where SABLE, was a work of solitude, fABLE is an outstretched hand.
Compared to the sparse minimalism of its three-song table setter, fABLE is all lush vibrance. Radiant, ornate pop music gleams around Vernon’s voice as he focuses on a new and beautiful era. On every song, his eyes are locked with one specific person. It’s love, which means there’s an intense clarity, focus, and honesty within fABLE. It’s a portrait of a man flooded and overwhelmed by that first meeting (“Everything Is Peaceful Love”). There’s a tableau defined by sex and irrepressible desire (“Walk Home”). This is someone filled with light and purpose seeing an entire future right in front of him: a partner, new memories, maybe a family.
While not as minimal as its companion EP, fABLE’s sound appears to walk back the dense layers of sound Vernon hid behind on records like i,i and 22, a million. There’s nothing evasive or boundary-busting about this music. It’s a canvas for truth laid bare. Much of the album was recorded at Vernon’s April Base in Wisconsin after years of the studio laying dormant during a renovation. The album’s conceptual genesis happened on 2.22.22 when Jim-E Stack, Vernon’s close collaborator and guide throughout the creative process, arrived at the base with Danielle Haim. Snowed in for multiple days, their voices intertwined for the ballad “If Only I Could Wait.” Suddenly, Haim gave voice to this crucial perspective—the one Vernon seems to hold in sacred regard across fABLE. Accompanied by Rob Moose’s strings, it’s a track about weariness—about not having the strength to be the best version of yourself outside the glow of new love.
There’s something undeniably healing about infatuation. Cleaving to someone else can feel like light pouring in from a door that’s suddenly swung wide. But there’s a reason SABLE, is of a piece with fABLE; even after you put in the work, the shadow still rears its head from time to time. On “There’s A Rhythmn,” Vernon finds himself back in an old feeling, this time seeking an alternative instead of erasure: “Can I feel another way?” There’s an understanding that even when you’ve reached a new chapter, you’ll always find yourself back in your own foundational muck. A fable isn’t a fairy tale. Yes, there’s the good shit: unbridled joy, trips to Spain, the color salmon as far as the eye can see. But fables aren’t interested in happy endings or even endings at all; they’re here to instill a lesson.
As the album winds to a close, he acknowledges the need for patience and a commitment to put in the work. There’s a selfless rhythm required when you’re enmeshing yourself with another person. The song—and by extension the entire album—is a pledge. He’s ready to find that pace.
credits
released April 11, 2025
Produced by Justin Vernon and Jim-E Stack
Engineered by Ian Gold and Justin Vernon
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
Additional Production, Engineering and Assistance by: Asher Weisberg
Art Direction by Justin Vernon, Ruben Nusz, Miles Johnson
there's few albums that have such a great, charming and cool vibe, so dark and muffled whilst sounding so bright. it's oscillating between orchestral-like pieces and bedroom pop, and it just works. this is going in the reference music playlist Unit's Daydream
Solid album from Sufjan Stevens. Easily the least-disruptive, and most-precisely composed album he's yet made. I've been following him since Come on, Feel the Illinoise and Michigan, and can say that his techniques have only become more refined since then. SamuraiColorCutter
The Ohio band's first LP in over a decade parlays bandleader Zac Little's love of painting into sweeping, tonally rich folk-punk. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 30, 2025
Found because of Final Fantasy 16's Pax West Panel, if you know, you know! Anyway, that started me on all of the boygenius songs and albums. Love the song, I certainly formed some core memories with it, awesome track on an album of amazing songs. jrevell
