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Bon Iver’s SABLE, fABLE Rollout, Ranked
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The story of a morose Justin Vernon retreating to his father’s Wisconsin hunting cabin to record 2007’s For Emma, Forever Ago is as much a part of that album’s legacy as any of its deep cuts, and the band’s output has been periodically enshrouded in mystique since. No matter how many songs he makes with Charli XCX, Vernon is never going to shake the mountain-man image he created with For Emma, Forever Ago, so it seems he’s decided to do the next best thing and lean in. Vernon is a big basketball fan, so this doesn’t come completely out of nowhere, but it does sort of paint an unrealistic image of SABLE, fABLE as an album of jock jams to hoop to.
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