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Sep 20, 2024 By Mark Redfern Photography by Erinn Springer

Bon Iver (the project led by Justin Vernon) has announced a new EP, SABLE,, and shared its first single, “S P E Y S I D E,” via a music video. SABLE, is due out October 18 via Jagjaguwar. Erinn Springer directed the “S P E Y S I D E” video. Watch it below, followed by the EP’s tracklist and cover artwork.

Vernon produced the EP with Jim-E Stack, writing it from 2020 to 2023 and recording it at April Base in Wisconsin.

The most recent Bon Iver album, i, i, came out in 2019 via Jagjaguwar.

A press release says the EP strips “the project down to the primary elements on which it was originally founded. Before being Bon Iver meant playing a part.”

The press release adds: “Emerging from a slow-burning breakdown—possibly done with music, thinking increasingly about the process of healing—SABLE, is a space for Vernon to unpack the darkness, pressure and anxiety that amounted to one of the most trying periods of his life…. Named for near-blackness, SABLE,’s lyrics are direct projections of guilt, anguish and turmoil, but also unfinished business.”

In August, Bon Iver performed at a Kamala Harris and Tim Walz rally in Wisconsin.

SABLE, Tracklist:

1. THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS
2. S P E Y S I D E
3. AWARDS SEASON

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