Bon Iver’s ‘SABLE fABLE’ Debuts Soon, First Album in Six Years

Justin Vernon, the musician behind Bon Iver, has his first album in six years out out April 11th on Jagjaguwar. SABLE, fABLE comes with a love story set to lush, radiant pop music.

While the record begins with the vulnerable unburdening of last fall’s three-song SABLE, EP, the triptych seamlessly gives way to a new nine-song saga in which one person becomes two, darkness turns to salmon-colored beauty, and sadness transforms to unbridled joy. Where SABLE, is a sparse and solitary reckoning with a pain that long-defined the past, fABLE looks towards a vibrant future filled with light, purpose and possibility: a partner, new memories, perhaps a family.

Ahead of its April 11th release date, Bon Iver officially enters the fABLE era this Valentine’s Day with “Everything Is Peaceful Love.” The single will arrive alongside a music video shot and edited by filmmaker John Wilson, of HBO’s How To with John Wilson.

Pre-order SABLE, fABLE, and watch “Everything Is Peaceful Love” at 10am EST on Friday, February 14th: HERE

Produced by Justin Vernon and Jim-E Stack, SABLE, fABLE was primarily recorded at Vernon’s April Base in Wisconsin, after years that the studio spent laying dormant during a renovation. The conceptual genesis for the album occurred on 2.22.22, when Stack arrived at the Base with Danielle Haim. Snowed in for multiple days, Vernon and Haim’s voices intertwined on “If Only I Could Wait,” a duet with crucial perspective, about not having the strength to be the best version of yourself outside the glow of new love.

Like fables, each track instills a lesson, and fABLE is about the selfless rhythm required when one is enmeshed with another person or lover – a patient commitment to finding the pace for betterness, and togetherness. Gone are the evasive and dense layers of sound that guarded Justin Vernon’s voice on i,i and 22, A Million. The previous four albums were a cycle of seasons that is now complete; SABLE, fABLE is a canvas for truth laid bare.

Justin Vernon will speak more about SABLE, fABLE on February 21st, in a wide-ranging conversation with bestselling author Krista Tippett of The On Being Project. Closing out the annual On Air Fest in Brooklyn, NY, the two will sit down to discuss music, healing and other central questions. Tickets are available here, with audio of the interview streaming live via KCRW’s on-site internet radio broadcast, and later available via On Being.