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Feb 14, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Graham Tolbert

Bon Iver (the project led by Justin Vernon) is releasing a new album, SABLE, fABLE, on April 11, via Jagjaguwar. It was announced earlier this week and now, as promised, its lead single, “Everything Is Peaceful Love,” has been shared via a music video directed by John Wilson of HBO’s How To with John Wilson. Watch it below.

“I knew what kind of record I wanted to make the day we made ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love,’” says Vernon in a press release. “I always knew that would be the feeling I wanted to share first. I wanted the video to just be people smiling uncontainably. Luckily, Eric Timothy Carlson suggested getting in touch with John Wilson from How To with John Wilson. Simply the most poignant and hilarious program in all of Television. We were extremely fortunate that John liked the idea. He went out, shot a bunch of fun stuff, and edited it all to the song. 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.”

Read our 2020 interview with John Wilson on How To with John Wilson.

SABLE, fABLE follows Bon Iver’s 2024 EP, SABLE, (the comma is part of the title), which came out last October. The album opens with all three tracks from SABLE,. The EP’s first single (and the new album’s second track), “S P E Y S I D E,” was one of our Songs of the Week. The last Bon Iver full-length album, i, i, came out in 2019 via Jagjaguwar.

Vernon produced the album with Jim-E Stack and recorded it at Vernon’s April Base studio in Wisconsin after it had been unused for a while during a renovation. The album began on 2/22/22 when Stack and Danielle Haim (of HAIM) showed up at April Base and they were all snowed in. This led to the creation of “If Only I Could Wait,” a duet between Vernon and Haim. A press release says that the SABLE, EP was the prologue and SABLE, fABLE is the book, but together they form the album.

On February 21, Vernon will appear at the On Air Fest in Brooklyn, where he will be in conversation with Peabody-award winning broadcaster Krista Tippett, of The On Being Project. Tickets are available here and the conversation will be live-streamed by the Los Angeles public radio station KCRW and will also be included in a future episode of Tippett’s On Being radio show.

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

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