Bon Iver knows how to surprise with a dozen of divagations from the original sound of a track, which miraculously changes until the end and somehow even recovers in a few seconds. Bon Iver, Bon Iver, the 2011 album is a piece deserving a high place in any collector’s collection.
It is important to highlight the titles of the songs, original and variegating. Reminding of Minnesota WI is an interesting track: we hear some jazz tendencies, then the mandolin sound and finally some rockish guitar strings. Holocene possesses wonderful lyrics, “And at once I knew I was not magnificent/Strayed about the highway aisle/Jagged vacance, thick with ice/I could see for miles, miles, miles, acoustic, with a pinch of melodrama, just enough to make it melancholic and dream. To my mind, the best track of the 2011 album. We also hear the folk sounds of Towers and Michigant the melodic line of the guitar depicting American sceneries. Hinnom,TX tends to sound a bit psychedelic, Wash has a peaceful piano tune, a wonderfully at ease with the world melody and Calgary would definitely remind anyone of a not-so-grandoise version of Pink Floyd. At the end of the album, the purely instrumental Lisbon,OH is a dose of ambiental, relaxing music, whereas Beth/Rest recalls the ’70s just as Perth, again offering a pretty ambiental track which announces a completely change of scenery after minute 2, resembling a national, marching song, perhaps a new wave in the perspective of Bon Iver. and, to my mind, a hit.
