Bon Iver Details New Album ‘SABLE, fABLE’

Bon Iver will expand on the release of last year’s SABLE EP with a new album entitled SABLE, fABLE. Founder Justin Vernon will issue the sixth Bon Iver album on April 11 through Jagjaguwar.

The three songs making up SABLE are the first three tracks of the 12-track SABLE, fABLE. The album was co-produced by Vernon and Jim-E Stack and recorded at Vernon’s April Base recording facility in Wisconsin. The first Bon Iver album since since 2019’s i,i was also the first project recorded at April Base after years of incapacity during renovation.

According to the album announcement:

“Where SABLE, is a sparse and solitary reckoning with a pain that long-defined the past, fABLE looks towards a vibrant future filled with light, purpose and possibility: a partner, new memories, perhaps a family …

“If SABLE, was the prologue, then fABLE is the book – but together, SABLE, fABLE is the album, and for that reason it is no fairy tale …

“Like fables, each track instills a lesson, and fABLE is about the selfless rhythm required when one is enmeshed with another person or lover – a patient commitment to finding the pace for betterness, and togetherness.

“Gone are the evasive and dense layers of sound that guarded Justin Vernon’s voice on i,i and 22, A Million. The previous four albums were a cycle of seasons that is now complete; SABLE, fABLE is a canvas for truth laid bare.”

Danielle Haim of HAIM appears on the song “If Only I Could Wait.” Dijon and Flock of Dimes contributed to the track “Day One.”

The SABLE, fABLE lead single, “Everything Is Peaceful Love,” will be released this Friday, February 14. The single will be accompanied by a video directed by John Wilson.

SABLE, fABLE Tracklist

1. THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS
2. S P E Y S I D E
3. AWARDS SEASON
4. Short Story
5. Everything Is Peaceful Love
6. Walk Home
7. Day One (feat. Dijon and Flock of Dimes)
8. From
9. I’ll Be There
10. If Only I Could Wait (feat. Danielle Haim)
11. There’s A Rhythmn
12. Au Revoir