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Bon Iver Returns With the Stark ‘Sable,’ His First New Project in Five Years: EP Review
Bon Iver returns to a stripped down, stark sound and mood on the three-song 'Sable' EP, his first new release in five years.
According to the press materials that accompany the stripped-down three-song “Sable” EP, his first new release since “i,i” five years ago, “This trio of songs represents an unburdening from one of the most trying eras in Vernon’s life. At the end of his rope, maybe done with music, and thinking increasingly about the process of healing, he finally found the time to unpack years of built-up darkness just as the lockdown began.” “Speyside” is just Vernon’s voice and acoustic guitar with a light violin embellishment, carried along by its arresting melody and downcast lyrics: “I know now that I can’t make good/ How I wish I could/ Go back and put me where you stood/ Nothing’s really something, now the whole thing’s soot.”
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