Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

i don't think For Emma was ever considered groundbreaking. it was just an album that was unnaturally and innately good at being both intimate enough to feel personal and open enough for an audience to find plenty of comfortable nooks to curl up in.

Album Rating: 3.5

Maybe groundbreaking wasn't the right word. Idk I just don't seem to get all the hype behind that one. It's a very solid 3.5 for me but it never went above that.

Album Rating: 5.0

Its one of those albums that's gottta reach you at just the right time. It's not a musically groundbreaking album by any means, but if it got to you at just the right time, in the right environment, it's lifechanging.

Album Rating: 4.5

Been a fan of Bon Iver since FE,FA, and to be honest when I first heard this back in 2016 I couldn't stand it.



For some reason I gave it another listen a couple weeks back on a trip, and was blown away. I'm still getting over how much this grew on me, I think it's easily on the level of his first album, and I think better than the self titled.



#29 Stratford Apts. is the standout track for me, it gets me right in the feels everytime and I can't even say why...

Album Rating: 2.0

I still can't stand it. It just comes off as lazy and amateurish to me. A lot of these songs don't go anywhere.

It's... experimental.

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm trying to get into to it. "29# Stratford" is a fantastic song, I agree there, but it's also the only one I can say I love so far. I know this will click sometime tho.

Album Rating: 2.0

There are moments of greatness here but saying it's experimental doesn't excuse that some songs feel like they're unfinished. He could have done a lot more here songwriting-wise.

Like playing a guitar instead of pushing buttons and copy pasting on protools?

Album Rating: 2.0

B-but muh beeps and boops

When I watched his first TV appearance for this album and saw 3 guys on 3 keyboards instead of the 12 people smth band I think I grew 10 years older in a second.

Album Rating: 1.0

bleep bloop happy as hell boopdedoop stay for tea



5.0 classic

Album Rating: 2.0

Hey, fuck you. You may think you're so smart with your David Bowie 5's and think yourself all cultured. But it's all just a fucking fake to me, man. You're a pretender like everyone else out there. The fact is that people like you (the uninitiated, as you will be referred to) would rather sell themselves for the dull mainstream than actually listen to artists that matter. All of the popular garbage spilling over the airwaves is just temporary. The average, non-intellectual listener (i.e. you) is unwilling to shift through the market and get down to the really relevant and groundbreaking music that will define our generation.



Every bloop here speaks to me. When Justin Vernon presses a key, the subtle "beep" enters my eardrums like a rushing wave, beckoning to me to enjoy a delicious, hot beverage. Every small twinkle of the guitar makes my heart race. There is so much meaning that it cannot be put into words--at least, ones that you would understand. The "boop" is what sells this, though. It's as if the very soul, the very ESSENCE of our lives can be summarized in every single boop bippity bap that silently coasts out of Vernon's delicate fingers. You say you hear farting or uninspired drivel? I hear inspiration.



You can keep your Bowie garbage. I choose beeps. I choose culture.

Album Rating: 1.0

:D

Album Rating: 4.8

best vernon tbh

it's close, probably give the nod to Bon Iver, Bon Iver

Album Rating: 4.8

that's one of his worst to me

Album Rating: 3.0

Meme album

Absolutely not best Vernon

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah it rules but def not best. S/t is hands down best Bon Iver for me.