Bon Iver announces new album, shares two new songs

by Tyler Munro

August 13, 2016

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"22, A Million" is out on September 30th.

After years of relative silence, Bon Iver is back.

Yesterday, Justin Vernon’s Wisconsin band announced that their new album, 22, A Million, will be out next month.

With a tracklist that looks like a mix between my old MSN Messenger statuses and a cat walking across your keyboard, 22, A Million is poised to be an extension of the consonant-free, increasingly freaky folk Vernon explored on 2011’s Bon Iver, Bon Iver.

Not one to tease (well, except for the last several years of teases), Vernon has shared two new songs off the album, “22 (OVER S∞∞N) [Bob Moose Extended Cab Version]” and “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠ (Extended Version),” which you can check out below.

Bon Iver fans should hope that it’s worth the wait — indications are that this might be the project’s last. Bon Iver’s new bio describes the album as “part love letter, part resting place of two decades of searching for self-understanding.”

As for the album art, it’s reminiscent of a stick-and-poke flash sheet littered with pseudo-religious iconography, and vaguely mathematical mins and yangs. In spite of how dismissive that sounds, it’s cool:

01 22 (OVER S∞∞N)
02 10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠
03 715 – CRΣΣKS
04 33 “GOD”
05 29 #Strafford APTS
06 666 ʇ
07 21 M♢♢N WATER
08 8 (circle)
09 ____45_____
10 00000 Million

22, A Million is out on September 30 via Jagjaguwar.

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