Will Sable, Fable “be the epilogue for Bon Iver?
Six years after the last “I, I”, and after having collaborated intensely with Taylor Swift (at the 2020 “Folklore” and “Evemore” diptych) and collected duets with Travis Scott, Zach Bryan and even Charli XCX (in the remix of “I Think About It All the Time”, one of the traces of “BRAT”, this Friday Bon Iiver. It will publish a new unreleased album. It is titled “Sable, Fable“, Comes after last year’s EP last year and It was announced as “an epilogue” In presenting the disc, Justin Vernon – traditionally enigmatic, cryptic and elusive – used this expression.
“” Sable, Fable “inaugurates the next chapter of Bon Iver: the epilogue”, reads the press release released by the press office of the US singer -songwriter, hero of the indie of the last twenty years. .It was enough to start dozens of discussions on Reddit around the project. And to the future of Bon Iver. Which seems wrapped in a fog of mystery.
Vernon did not provide other information, avoiding clarifying what exactly “Sable, Fable” will represent a closure of the circle for Bon Iver. A marketing move to try to conquer the attention of the media and, consequently, of the public, alluding to a possible farewell to the scenes? It is ahypothesis which should not be excluded. But as remembered by the most attentive fans, already last October, in the cover notes of the “Sable” EP, Bon Iver was referring to the act of producing music with the name Bon Iver as alla “interpretation of a part». In the pieces of the EP, three in all, he said of “Understanding” from the elaborate superstructures that characterized the Bon Iver project to produce intimate pieces, composed – for the most part – only from his voice and from an acoustic guitar: a sort of
Return to the originsfor those who follow him since the time of “For Emma, Forever Aug”. In November, then Vernon had launched a mysterious website called “Counterpart“(In Italian” counterparty “), with which he seemed to open the Casting for the search for a new bon Iver: “Who else could embody the role of Bon Iver?” The site reads type phrases: “Do you have a friend who looks like Justin Vernon?». That Vernon intends to detach himself from the Bon Iver project to travel other roads, leaving that name, which in fact has become a brand in the history of the rock indie of the last twenty years, to other interpreters?
Last autumn, interviewed by the New Yorker, Justin Vernon He gave rather vague and smoky answers to precise questions on a possible end of the Bon Iver project. Speaking of a concert held in Duluth with his bandmates, the singer -songwriter said he was excited as he was “preparing to start saying goodbye to the last sixteen years». That is, those spent from the debut of 2007 with “For Emma, Forever ago”. Then, philosophizing, he added: “Things need rest. A life needs rest at one point».
There are few certainties and so much the mystery. To the three pieces contained in “Sable”, or “Things Behind Things Behind Things”, “Speyside” and “Awards Seasons”, nine more are added on the album to be released on Friday. The last, the one that closes the disc, is simply titled “Au regavoir“. And it doesn’t seem to be a coincidence.
