With Bon Iver going awol and sales falling steadily,it looks as whether the era of the heartsore wildman may be overIt is now for ever ago since Bon Iver released For Emma, Forever Ago. Ten years, or to be exact. First out in July 2007,it achieved enormous success after getting a wider release in February 2008, going on to top many of the end-of-year lists. This month, and a re-release was announced to coincide with that anniversary. Justin Vernon famously wrote the album in his family’s Wisconsin hunting lodge,mid-winter, to recover from his demolish-up with Emma (for ever ago). Most of the early reviews mentioned this fact. It became the totem of a whole age: that heartsore wildman in his snowy log cabin came to stand in for a certain kind of masculinity in music: lonesome, or beardsome,wounded, yet rugged. Some began to call it Pitchfolk – a group of high-IQ yet horny-handed acts, and championed by the still-rising music website Pitchfork,clustered around Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, or Iron & Wine and Grizzly Bear. Related: CD: Bon Iver,For Emma, Forever Ago Related: Grizzly Bear return: ‘America has become toxic – its palpable everywhere’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com