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Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Introducing Bon Iver on “SABLE,” His First New Record in Five Years from The New Yorker Radio Hour.

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Bon Iver is the alias of Justin Vernon, who holds an unusual place in music as both a singer-songwriter in an acoustic idiom and a collaborator with the biggest stars in pop, including Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, and Kanye West. Bon Iver’s new three-song EP, titled “SABLE,” is his first record of his own songs in more than five years. Vernon rarely gives interviews, so this is an extended version of his conversation with the staff writer Amanda Petrusich. They touched on the meaning of “sable,” a word that can refer to mourning and darkness. Vernon is not altogether comfortable with the acclaim he has received. “I’m not, like, famous on the street, People-magazine famous, but . . . there’s been a lot of accolades,” he tells Petrusich. “I was getting a lot of positive feedback for being heartbroken and having heartache and I’ve wondered . . . [if] maybe I’m pressing the bruise.”

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0:00.0	Listen to support it, WNYC Studios.
0:07.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.
0:20.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. The musician Justin Vernon, who goes by Bonnever,
0:29.0	occupies a unique place in pop music. On his own records he's a singer-songwriter often in a very
0:35.3	spare idiom but he's probably better known as a collaborator with some of the biggest
0:39.3	stars in pop music notably Kanye West and Taylor Swift. Bonnever is releasing his first new music in five years,
0:47.8	starting with the song Space Side, and he came to the studio the other day to talk with our
0:52.3	music critic Amanda Petrosich.
0:55.0	I know now that I can't make good
0:59.0	how I wish I could.
1:08.0	Bonnever is the alias of Justin Vernon, a singer and songwriter from Oak Claire, Wisconsin.
1:11.0	He's about to release a three-song EP called Sable,
1:14.3	the Bonnever, which, by the way, is a French phrase, meaning good winter,
1:18.7	lifted from the television series Northern Exposure,
1:21.4	a deeply formative work in Vernon's creative universe.
1:25.6	His music is so important to me, but I actually find it incredibly difficult to characterize
1:30.4	in part because none of it really sounds the same.
1:33.0	He's done the very bare-boned acoustic thing,
1:35.7	like on Skinny Love.
1:37.5	He's experimented with distorting digital effects
1:40.1	like on 715 creeks.
1:42.2	But it all kind of feels the same.
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