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2.5 average | RadicalEd | September 15th 16 | The Woods - The Album. And by "The Woods" I obviously mean: "tHHHH? #w00dzzzzzzz - 983"
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3.0 good | Jade | August 13th 16 | iTunes user 1: back in my day people played instruments. iTunes user 2: a true fan knows that rartists change over time. youtube user 1: stank pussy smellin like pine trees and colombian brew
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4.0 excellent | Tom Read CONTRIBUTOR | August 13th 16 | not the direction we wanted, but the direction we needed
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3.0 good | SandwichBubble | August 13th 16 | Vernon has officially become the self-important knob we all knew he'd one day become.
Released songs sound good though, so whatever.
Edit: Album's good.
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2.0 poor | Rudy K. EMERITUS | October 3rd 16 | Cunning song titles tactic by Vernon here to make it impossible for me to ever review
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0.0 | Observer EMERITUS | October 3rd 16 | this is garbage
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2.5 average | praise jimmy EMERITUS | August 13th 16 | huh, didn't know the wingdings font passed for proper titles these days
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0.0 | Slex | August 13th 16 | The live performance of this album is just stunning and culminates in the best work of Justin Vernon's career
yet. I am crazed with anticipation for the studio version now, going to be AOTY
Edit: lmao get out of here, you have no idea what the production is going to sound like because you listened
to a live version ya fuckin mook
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2.5 average | breakingthefragile | October 1st 16 | Nothing new here. Nothing particularly interesting or well-done either.
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3.5 great | ciregno | September 27th 16 | This album starts off very strong for me and takes him to unexplored territory. However the second half, it comes back to Earth, and is more on familiar ground to his older stuff. I think the first half is definitely stronger and some of his best work yet.
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2.5 average | smitwil15 | December 14th 16 | "Kind of reminds me of Sufjan Steven's Age of Adz, only not mediocre" Remove the not and you got it right
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2.0 poor | ibringyoufire | October 2nd 16 | really grating faux-experimentation with tired song structures and nonsense lyrics. listen to the new nicolas jaar album instead.
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0.0 | Black Daimon | August 13th 16 | "It's like when Radiohead put out King of Limbs and you're just like "ok......but I know damn well
you're capable of making OK computer so what even is this"" - some guy
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2.0 poor | MrCoffee | December 8th 16 | I applaud and appreciate the fact that Justin Vernon is going in a different direction and making more challenging music with this album, since he could have played it safe and make another "cabin in the woods" Bon Iver record. But my god this sounds too try-hard, rushed, half-assed, poorly put together, and just straight up bad. A big, big mess of an album.
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4.0 excellent | Your Favorite Lurker | October 4th 16 | this is amazing and I can't even word why. Justin Vernon for president 2016
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3.0 good | dihstyle69 | October 4th 16 | some might say bon iver did an incredible job of creating a completely new and refreshing sound, but in all truth, this is a new sound just for him. there's nothing groundbreaking here, and this style was done in a better way before. decent, but not as good as some are making it out to be. 3+
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5.0 classic | zxlkho | October 1st 16 | Justin Vernon for President
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4.0 excellent | fdrc | September 29th 16 | Boring and flat. No emotions in this new album, far far away from the debut.
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2.8 good | Erwann S. STAFF | August 25th 22 | I still find this a messy, almost-boring gloubiboulga of chipmunk voices with occasional gorgeous musical moments.
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0.0 | PrincyAli | July 18th 21 | Folktronica meets glitch. 4/5 Favs: 22 (OVER S??N), 33 ?GOD?, 29 #Strafford APTS, 666 ?, 21 M??N WATER, 8 (circle), ____45_____, 00000 Million
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4.5 superb | owl beanie EMERITUS | September 23rd 17 | the best vernon album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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4.5 superb | ChrisBCreme | September 21st 17 | Although I did enjoy the majority of the album, there are one or two songs that I simply can't see myself listening to again. Regardless, its achievements far outweigh its flaws, and shows much promise as to where Justin is going next.
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4.0 excellent | tef | May 23rd 17 | Another fine folk outing from Justin Vernon. Not very different from his last album and probably including some leftovers from his last here and there. A lot of fuss about the electronics and vocoders used is not very interesting and is basically a rip-off of what Sufjan did on his Age of Adz album 6 years ago. However, what he does with it is beautiful so that's fine. This album really opens up if listened to on e good stereoset or headphones. It's a lot more organic then one would think at first listen with all the "bleeps and sweeps" going on.
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3.5 great | Ben STAFF | April 16th 17 | '22, A Million' replicates the emotions that made Bon Iver's debut so captivating, something 'Bon Iver, Bon Iver' failed to do, whilst representing another intriguing shift in their sound. It firmly reminds us of their staying power and dominance within the mainstream music scene. Good job
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2.5 average | AnswerOnce | January 13th 17 | Justin Vernon channels his inner Kanye, delusions included.
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2.5 average | Stephen Prager | January 7th 17 | New rule: You are not allowed to call your songs "10 d E A T h b R E a s T", ""22 "(OVER S??N)", or "21 M??N WATER" while they sound this lifeless and mediocre.
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4.0 excellent | Monheim | November 24th 16 | Kind of reminds me of Sufjan Steven's Age of Adz, only not mediocre. Also, 8 (circle) is one of the best songs of the year.
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3.5 great | TheManMachine | November 20th 16 | After the initial attempts of deciphering song titles and wondering if my auxiliary port was fuckin' up and suspicions that he was trying too hard to get his glitchy weird on, bonafide beauty reluctantly revealed itself as did a convoluted yet charismatic flow. Vernon's voice in all its shapes+sizes bewitches more than it badgers, but badger it likely will; particularly teamed up with these often shaky and deficient-seeming "arrangements" -- but following in the footsteps of recent co-collaborators Frank Ocean and James Blake, he uses the bold, downplayed, and broken to convey an uncompromising fragile man/enigmatic cyborg opus. And while his is a comparably-n-courteously compact 34 minutes, it's also the least assured. Mutations cuz the ol' fashioned folkie in an abandoned cabin kinda feels old-hat, no dearth of acoustic plucks or swelling strings+horns or plain piano cuz he's not ready to let 'em go altogether, fine fine. Could certainly go for some tidying and development though.
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4.0 excellent | this is the best album that i\\\\\\\'ve (n)ever heard in my entire life. | October 20th 16 | I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded I don't think this is as pretentious as it is naive and retarded
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3.5 great | nukethewhale | October 15th 16 | Good, but I feel like there are hints of this being potentially so much better and developed.rFor example: 45 could've been absolutely astonishing if it was allowed to develop a little bit more.
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4.5 superb | notkanyewest | October 13th 16 | To paraphrase a terrible politician, let's dispel with this fiction that Justin Vernon doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. The Bon Iver project has had an air of pretension since it began- which is worse, song titles with goofy symbols in them or song titles that are made up places? I mean, this is the guy that locked himself in a cabin for three months, wrote a cult classic breakup album, and then, on his next EP, opened an auto-tuned song with the lyric "I'm up in the woods". Despite it's messy presentation, I think this record is actually the clearest distillation of the BI project to date...it's definitely my favorite by far; and lost in the swell of the indie-hype music cycle, I think, is that this is maybe the best record about anxiety to come out in this decade.
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4.5 superb | jpsurf93 | October 5th 16 | Only not a 5 cos it hasn't fully grown on me yet, but gotta recognize how innovative this album is.
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4.5 superb | 3waycrash | October 5th 16 | Justin Vernon dabbles with a more electronic influence, but despite the noticeable shift in sound it still sounds and feels like a Bon Iver album. With these new sounds Vernon was able to craft fascinating new canvases for his songs that no one would have ever imagined he'd create in his early days. Definitely different, but it's just as good as his other music.
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3.0 good | commonist | October 1st 16 | A solid album overall but came up a little short of my expectations. Vernon's move toward the more Yeezus-inspired production and percussion shined through on the singles but were not as prevalent as I had hoped on the remaining tracks. I also felt as though the singles should have been included as their extended versions with longer orchestral portions. Though the album didn't exactly live up to the hype for me, it was still a good album overall and leaves me excited for the direction Vernon is heading with Bon Iver. Recommended tracks: 33 "GOD", 22 (Over Soon), 10 d E A T h b R E a s T, 29 #Strafford APTS
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5.0 classic | ABjordanMM | September 30th 16 | It's, for all intents and purposes, a perfect album.
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4.5 superb | KMassam | September 30th 16 | Feeling a 4.5 right now, may even bump it up to a 5. Idk what it is, but I absolutely love the direction he went in with this. The effects on the vocals along with the downtempo electronic stuff just work for me. I agree with ciregno tho, the second half is more reminiscent of his old stuff, which I dig for sure.
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0.0 | crin16 | September 10th 16 | Haven't heard the album, but my motherfucking god the 3 singles have beeen out of this fucking world. '33 "God"' is one of the best songs I've ever heard, and I being completely serious. I am so god damn excited for this.
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