What do you think of Bon Iver and his recent album 22, A Million?

What do you think of Bon Iver and his recent album 22, A Million?

It's good but not as good as s/t

his best record to date, my personal AOTY

It is pretty good, isn't it?

I'm surprised it's flown "under the radar" compared to big names like Kanye, Frank, Radiohead etc, I think quality wise it's at or above every major album released this year

I just love the fact he didn't stagnate, he could have easily made Bon Iver 2 and people would have lapped it up, the production isn't experimental or unconventional by any means but it's a great advance for Justin sonically. I honestly can't say enough about this record

THIS.

His best record to date imo. It really does have a beautiful/unique identity, and Justin has a very pure expression.

In my top 15 this year

so unique it sounds just like james blake

yeah there's similarities but you haven't listened to enough of either artist to come to that simple of an observation

Same.

715 - Creeks was fucking phenomenal. 33 - God was probably my song of the year.

EW. You didn't listen to it properly then.

GTFO with you're James Blake bullshit. Easily the most overrated artist of the 10's in terms of critical acclaim

Yeah 33-God is easily the standout of the album, that or 666 imo

come on JB's last album wasn't BAD, much too long and self-indulgent though

explain how one listens to it properly cause all i'm hearing are old ideas with some spicy dumb ass spellings of track titles

Circle is the absolute pinnacle of the album. I listened to it on Acid and it broke the fuck out of me.

JB is pretty bad mah dude

Listen to it as folk music. listen to how the tonal aspects of the synths, drum machines, vocoders, and autotune beautifully intersect. Become a spiritually enlightened person, because only then will through the knoledge of numerology, will you understand how the track names represent certain emotions that reign through the Universe. It's literally that deep of an album, I wouldn't expect a normie to understand it. It takes a certain amount of installed empathy and love to understand 22, A Million

Really innovative but somewhat lacking. Had some great tracks and some meh tracks, both could've been expanded upon more.

honestly I don't see how someone can be a Vernon fan and not like JB at all, it isn't like they are worlds apart musically but to each his own I guess

but you're right, looking back the best part of the album is the ending to 8 (circle), I don't know how he did it

lol fuck you got me i thought you were serious for a second

loved it

Vernon started the style of autotune that was picked up by Kanye and Blake

Kanye controls hum

Awful, really bad

except he uses a vocoder and not autotune but you know, facts don't matter