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Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – Justin Vernon’s most easy-going record yet


This companion album to last year’s Sable EP gives those sorrowful songs a soulful lift, with Vernon’s beautiful falsetto vocals to the fore

Last October’s Sable EP saw Justin Vernon return briefly to the sorrowful man-in-a-cabin vibes of Bon Iver’s breakthrough album, For Emma, Forever Ago. The musician has been spending more time in the LA sunshine, trying to shake off the pained rural singer-songwriter role he has played both in stripped-back form ( For Emma…) and alongside abstract electronics (the digital soundscapes of 2016’s 22, a Million). Kicking off with the pedal steel-enhanced, sweet soul yearnings of Everything Is Peaceful Love, a vivid kind of equanimity hovers over Fable,which also continues Vernon’s run of nuanced duets with notable creatives (Danielle Haim on If Only I Could Wait; Flock of Dimes on Day One).

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