New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, Justin Vernon turns the page and begins Bon Iver's next chapter: the epilogue. Out April 11th on Jagjaguwar, SABLE, fABLE is the project's first album in six years, and with it comes a love story set to lush, radiant pop music. While the record begins with the vulnerable unburdening of last fall's three-song SABLE, EP, the triptych seamlessly gives way to a new nine-song saga in which one person becomes two, darkness turns to salmon-colored beauty, and sadness transforms to unbridled joy. Where SABLE, is a sparse and solitary reckoning with a pain that long-defined the past, fABLE looks towards a vibrant future filled with light, purpose and possibility: a partner, new memories, perhaps a family.
Ahead of its April 11th release date,
Bon Iver officially enters the fABLE era this Valentine's Day with "Everything Is Peaceful Love." The single will arrive alongside a music video shot and edited by filmmaker John Wilson, of HBO's How To with John Wilson.
Pre-order SABLE, fABLE, and watch "Everything Is Peaceful Love" at 10am EST on Friday, February 14th.
Produced by Justin Vernon and Jim-E Stack, SABLE, fABLE was primarily recorded at Vernon's April Base in Wisconsin, after years that the studio spent laying dormant during a renovation. The conceptual genesis for the album occurred on 2.22.22, when Stack arrived at the Base with
Danielle Haim. Snowed in for multiple days, Vernon and Haim's voices intertwined on "If Only I Could Wait," a duet with crucial perspective, about not having the strength to be the best version of yourself outside the glow of new love.
If SABLE, was the prologue, then fABLE is the book - but together, SABLE, fABLE is the album, and for that reason it is no fairy tale. There may be something undeniably healing about infatuation, and the intense clarity, focus, honesty and celebration it brings to these songs. "Everything Is Peaceful Love" is the portrait of a man overwhelmed with happiness upon meeting the one he will fall in love with. But the shadow of SABLE, still looms, and old feelings can return, even after one has put in the work to reset and start fresh.
Like fables, each track instills a lesson, and fABLE is about the selfless rhythm required when one is enmeshed with another person or lover - a patient commitment to finding the pace for betterness, and togetherness. Gone are the evasive and dense layers of sound that guarded Justin Vernon's voice on i,i and 22, A Million. The previous four albums were a cycle of seasons that is now complete; SABLE, fABLE is a canvas for truth laid bare.
Justin Vernon will speak more about SABLE, fABLE on February 21st, in a wide-ranging conversation with the Peabody-award winning broadcaster,
National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author, Krista Tippett, of The On Being Project. Closing out the annual On Air Fest in Brooklyn, NY, the two will sit down to discuss music, healing and other central questions. Tickets are available, with audio of the interview streaming live via KCRW's on-site internet radio broadcast, and later available via On Being.
SABLE, fABLE Tracklist:
THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS
S P E Y S I D E
AWARDS SEASON
Short Story
Everything Is Peaceful Love
Walk Home
Day One (feat. Dijon and Flock of Dimes)
From
I'll Be There
If Only I Could Wait (feat.
Danielle Haim)
There's A Rhythmn
Au Revoir
