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Bon Iver Hits Hard and Soft With ‘Sable, Fable’: Album Review
'Sable Fable,' Bon Iver's first full album in six years, is a sprawling but surprisingly cohesive set that defies every attempt to pin a genre on it.
His breakthrough album, 2007’s “For Emma, Forever Ago,” was the result of several weeks spent alone in a winter cabin in the wilderness of his native Wisconsin, and its aching sound sculptures and multitracked voices perfectly evoke that setting and the breakups (of both a relationship and previous band) that inspired it. While he’s made three more elaborate and at times considerably louder albums and collaborated with everyone from Taylor Swift and Kanye West to Bruce Hornsby and James Blake, the new “Sable, Fable,” his first full-length release in six years, is the product of another inward period but also captures his emergence from it. Its final three songs (not including the ambient, instrumental closer) drop the R&B and veer into a vaguely pop direction, centered around “If Only I Could Wait,” an aching duet with Danielle Haim that is embellished with a gorgeous string arrangement and, according to the press materials, was the starting point for the album.
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