Bon Iver

Justin Vernon at Primavera Sound Festival (2019)

Bon Iver concert in Washington DC

Bon Iver is an American folk or singer-songwriter project. The main character is the singer, guitarist and organist Justin Vernon (born April 30, 1981 in Eau Claire , Wisconsin ). The name Bon Iver is derived from the French term “Bon hiver” (“good winter”). Became known Bon Iver by the published in 2007 album For Emma, Forever Ago , the Vernon alone the US state of Wisconsin has taken in a hunting lodge in. The EP Blood Bank followed in 2009 . In 2011 the second studio album Bon Iver, Bon Iver , was released, which received the award for best alternative album at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012. It was also Bon Iver honored as best new artist.

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The melancholic songs by Bon Iver are very simply structured, mostly consist of a few, subtle guitar chords. The singer alternates between an emotional chest voice and a high head voice . Vernon plays all the instruments himself in the studio. He was first accompanied live by three other musicians, Mike Noyce, Sean Carey and Matthew McCaughan. For the songs on his second album Bon Iver, Bon Iver , he increased his stage crew to almost a dozen musicians, including winds and additional guitarists.

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In late 2007 Vernon released his first album For Emma, ​​Forever Ago under the stage name Bon Iver with his own funds. A few hundreds of CDs were circulating in regional music stores in Wisconsin before Vernon received an offer from the independent label Jagjaguwar in early 2008 to bring the album to a wider audience. So Vernon was finally signed first to Jagjaguwar and later to 4AD Records. The album achieved great success with audiences and critics, and both the album and the single Skinny Love achieved gold status in the United States. On the Metacritic side , the album has a rating of 88 points.

The second album, Bon Iver, was released in the United States in June 2011. More musicians were involved in the production of the album than in the debut album, including bass saxonophist Colin Stetson and guitarist Greg Leisz. The musical development was positively received by critics and fans and the album landed on several best lists of the year, including number 1 of the 2011 Best 50 Albums on the Pitchfork website . The Musikexpress also voted Bon Iver in fourth place in its list of the best.

After a long break, the band released their third album, 22, A Million, in autumn 2016 . Justin Vernon stated in interviews that he had previously suffered from panic attacks and depression. The music on the album represents a further musical development. Among other things, Vernon is increasingly using a harmonizer effect device, with which one can - alone - realize polyphonic vocal movements. Some reviewers attribute this to the influence of Kanye West , with whom Vernon has worked several times, and who also uses Harmonizer. 22, A Million also received mostly positive reviews, including 8 out of 10 points on Plattentests.de .

Bon Iver Day

In July 2011, the Mayor of Milwaukee , Tom Barrett, took the start of Bon Iver's world tour as an opportunity to make July 22nd the city's official Bon Iver Day. The reasons for this were the international success of both albums by the band, coupled with deep roots of those with Justin Vernon's home state of Wisconsin . A short time later, the mayor of Vernon's hometown also made December 13th official “Bon Iver Day”.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2008	For Emma, ​​Forever Ago	-	-	-	UK42 gold (12 weeks)UK	US64 platinum (21 weeks)US	Jagjaguwar
2011	Bon Iver	DE26 (6 weeks) DE	AT34 (3 weeks) AT	CH10 (5 weeks) CH	UK4th gold (15 weeks)UK	US2 platinum (40 weeks)US	Jagjaguwar
2016	22, A million	DE7 (3 weeks) DE	AT8 (2 weeks) AT	CH4 (3 weeks) CH	UK2 silver (8 weeks)UK	US2 (12 weeks) US	Jagjaguwar
2019	I, I	DE18 (3 weeks) DE	AT21 (2 weeks) AT	CH12 (4 weeks) CH	UK11 (5 weeks) UK	US26 (4 weeks) US	Jagjaguwar

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	US
2009	Blood Bank	UK37 (2 weeks) UK	US16 gold (6 weeks)US	Jagjaguwar

Singles

• 2008: Skinny Love (US:× 2Double platinum ; UK:gold)
• 2008: For Emma
• 2008: Re: Stacks (US:gold)
• 2009: Blood Bank
• 2011: Calgary
• 2011: Holocene (US:platinum; UK:silver)
• 2012: Towers
• 2012: Beth / Rest
• 2016: 22 (overseen)
• 2016: 10 deathbreast
• 2016: 33 God
• 2019: Hey, Ma
• 2019: U (Man Like)
• 2019: Faith
• 2019: Jelmore

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		AT	CH	UK	US
2010	Dark Fantasy My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	-	-	-	US60 (1 week) US	Kanye West feat. Teyana Taylor & Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver
	Monster My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	-	-	UK- silver UK	US18th platinum (10 weeks)US	Kanye West feat. Jay-Z , Rick Ross , Bon Iver & Nicki Minaj
2020	Exile folklore	AT56 (1 week) AT	CH48 (2 weeks) CH	UK8 (... weeks) UK	US6 (... weeks) US	Taylor Swift feat. Bon Iver

Web links

Commons : Bon Iver  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

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1. ↑ Rabea Weihser: Folk: When the coyotes howl. In: Zeit Online. May 21, 2008, accessed March 27, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Grammy's in 2012 at grammy.com
3. ↑ For Emma, ​​Forever Ago by Bon Iver. Retrieved October 1, 2016 . 
4. ↑ The Top 50 Albums of 2011 - Page 5 | Pitchfork. In: pitchfork.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Katharina Lauck: The 50 best albums of 2011: places 10 - December 1st , 2011, accessed on October 1st, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Laura Barton: Bon Iver: 'There are people who are into being famous. And I don't like that ' . In: The Guardian . September 24, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 1, 2016]).
7. ↑ Daniel-C. Schmidt: Bon Iver :: 22, A MILLION. Retrieved October 1, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Kevin Holtmann, Plattentests.de: Bon Iver - 22, a million - Plattentests.de. Retrieved October 1, 2016 . 
9. ^ Bon Iver Day at pitchfork.com
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
11. ↑ ^{a b} Music Sales Awards: UK US