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Bon Iver (; officially known as Bon Iver, Bon Iver) is the second studio album from American indie folk band Bon Iver, released on June 17, 2011. The album is composed of 10 songs and was seen as a new musical direction for the band. The album was commercially successful, debuting at number one on the Norwegian Albums Chart and the Danish Albums Chart, and number two on the US Billboard 200 chart. It sold 104,000 copies in its first week in the United States. As of September 2016, the album has sold a total of 629,000 copies in the United States. It received widespread acclaim from critics, some of whom named it one of the best albums of 2011. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2012 ceremony, while the song "Holocene" was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Why are we still adding bands with multiple albums present already? You'd think the user list at least wouldn't be so fucking basic. Add a fuckin ICP album already, you milquetoast hipsters. 1/5.
I personally like this Bon Iver album the most. The songs are mature and have an original sound. The first album was folk and singer-songwriter stuff, this album is all about nature in epic soundscapes. Listening to it feels like sitting on a porch at a cabin at the edge of the forest looking to the clouds passing by. Almost too bad that Vernon started experimenting even further on the following albums.
The debut album has that energy of an outpouring following a decade's build-up which is hard to beat, though I think this is in some ways a more mature and consciously realized album. Regardless it's a very strong sophomore offering. Holocene is one of my absolute favorite songs of the decade.
The second bon iver album is amazing in many ways and in some even better than the original. Less melancholic and with a stronger sense of nostalgia and appealing to the senses this album is a great listen. Holocene is one of Bon Iver’s best songs. This is fantastic but not quite as good overall as the debut. 8.6/10
This is tepid in a way that makes you think that Justin wossisface has gone out of his way to make luke-warm music. You'd expect to hear this in a chain coffee house. If you heard it in a pub, you'd leave.
Typical Bon Iver sound. I love it
More Bon Iver… and it’s good Bon Iver. Dramatic, interesting, and lovely.
Most of it is pretty good, except for the yacht rock nonsense…
Another solid 40 minutes of bon iver music. Somewhat less sad than for Emma forever ago.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Perth, Michicant
better than 22, a million; not quite as good as For Emma, Forever Ago; a solid 3.5 stars!
My second favourite Bon Iver album, after for Emma, it gets a bit too pretentious after this.
Known best for his gentle melancholic approach to folsky indie, Bon Iver is someone who I've been aware of for a while but never felt motivated to fully listen to. Perhaps a spotlight is deserved given his prolific resume as of 2025: credits with Kanye West, James Blake, Travis Scott, and most notable Taylor Swift. Obviously he has the attention of everyone else, so let's see what the big deal is. What a tender collection of songs. There's a certain stillness to much of this album that makes Justin Vernon's vocals feel like occasional breezes through the sustained instruments. Within sonic soundscapes of hazy memories represented through pastoral imagery (the album art), Bon Iver finds beauty in a lot of complicated feelings. The closing track finds a nice balance between the soothing padded synths of the '80s and the classic slide guitar of yesteryear country in order to get across his longing most effectively. Wonderful compositions all-around. CONTENDER FOR THE LIST: No doubt in my mind it should be there.
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I have a love/hate relationship with Bon Iver. Some of his music I think is beautiful, while some is pretentious and unlistenable. This I found to be more of the former. 3 stars.
Beth/Rest sounds like it was ripped from 80s smooth ballads
Falsetto folk isn’t my thing and maybe it deserved one entry into the overall list but I don’t think we needed six or whatever
Post-rock, chamber folk, chamber pop, experimental. Ni fu ni fa.
Very mellow, but not boring in a way that drags down what I'm doing when using it for background music
I've listened to a few Bon Iver LPs by now, but this one surprised me – I wasn't expecting how varied and lively the instrumentation would be, and really enjoyed the richness of the production. This is still a singer-songwriter LP at the end of the day and felt a bit slow to me in parts, but the album still punched well above its weight for a genre I'm not typically a fan of.
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Real nice
This was nice. Earthy and melancholy. A bit slow moving for my mood today, but well done. Fave Songs: Holocene, Towers, Perth, Wash., Michicant