Bon Iver drops new single and John Wilson directed music video
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Bon Iver drops new single and John Wilson directed music video

Earlier this week, Bon Iver announced their fifth album is on its way; SABLE, fABLE is out April 11 via Jagjaguwar. In the meantime though, Justin Vernon and company have now shared a new single, titled “Everything Is Peaceful Love”, which you can listen to now.

Filmmaker John Wilson of HBO’s How to With John Wilson directed and edited the music video, which includes collected footage in his trademark offbeat, documentarian style.

Watch below:

“I knew what kind of record I wanted to make the day we made ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love,’” Vernon said in a press statement. “I always knew that would be the feeling I wanted to share first.”

Speaking to their collaboration with Wilson, Vernon stated artist Eric Timothy Carlson (who created the album art for 22, A Million and i,i), persuaded him to get involved with Wilson for SABLE, fABLE.

“I wanted the video to just be people smiling uncontainably...It gives me what I want for this album, all in one video. The idea that happiness and joy are the highest form and the true buoyancy of survival, and even taking yourself less seriously could heal the world.”

On February 21, Vernon will elaborate on SABLE, fABLE in an interview with Peabody Award winning broadcaster Krista Tippett at On Air Fest. If you can’t make it in person, their conversation will be streamed live on KCRW’s internet radio site and available later through Tippett’s program On Being.

SABLE, fABLE marks Justin Vernon’s first full-length album since 2019’s i,i, though Vernon has remained busy the last six years since its release, including releasing last year’s SABLE EP. Revisit The Needle Drop’s 2024 year-end EP list, which called the SABLE EP the ninth best extended play of 2024.

Jaeden Pinder

Brooklyn, NY

Jaeden Pinder is a writer based in Brooklyn by way of South Florida. She has written for Pitchfork, Paste, and Stereogum. Previously, she was an Editorial Fellow at Pitchfork in 2023.

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