“My Eyes” is one of two tracks on Travis Scott’s LP “Utopia” to feature Bon Iver, representing the first time the rapper has ever dropped songs with Justin Vernon’s act. Both of those tracks were released as part of...
“Delresto (Echoes)” was released on 28 July 2023, on the same day as the album it is featured on, which is Travis Scott’s “Utopia”. However, “Delresto” concurrently serves as the LP’s second single. This track finds Travis teaming...
“The Hillbillies” came out as a surprise release, initially via the YouTube channel of pgLang, on 30 May 2023. Besides for pgLang – the label Kendrick Lamar founded a few years back which most notably features himself...
Holocene is the name given to the geographical epoch, as they are called, which we are currently living in, i.e. the physical Earth’s history from the end of the Ice Age up until now. Within...
There’s two things that we know about Justin Vernon, the mastermind behind Bon Iver. One is that his lyrics are never straightforward. Second, he isn’t what one would define as a mainstream Christian. So listeners with that foreknowledge...
Bon Iver is one of those types of musical acts who tends to never state what they are trying to put forth directly, thus tasking the listener with having to weave through a number...
For starters, despite being the featured artist on “Renegade”, Taylor Swift does serve as its lead vocalist, with Justin Vernon participating in that regard in more of a backup capacity. And perhaps you don’t need...
“Naeem” uses the type of heavy, personalized metaphors that fans of Bon Iver have grown accustomed to. That is to say that trying to derive the meaning from a song by this band can prove...
The setting of Bon Iver’s “Jelmore” is an impending apocalyptic situation. The track actually reads as if Bon Iver’s lead singer Justin Vernon is anticipating some type of large-scale calamity. The exact nature of this...
This is a song about the titular topic of faith or more specifically the singer’s personal feelings towards the subject. And the notion he seems to be relaying is that at one particular juncture in time he was...
