Bon Iver Resets With New EP ‘SABLE,’ Featuring ‘S P E Y S I D E’ Single

Bon Iver shared a new single, “S P E Y S I D E,” which will appear on a new EP entitled SABLE,. The three-song EP from the project led by Justin Vernon is set to arrive on October 18 through Jagjaguwar.

Described by a press release as “a reset and reintroduction” that “[strips] the project down to the primary elements on which it was originally founded,” SABLE, is Bon Iver’s first new music since 2019’s i,i. Co-produced by Vernon and Jim-E Stack the three songs were built around guitar and voice.

The pending EP, whose title means near-blackness, was recorded at Vernon’s April Base recording facility near Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Several longtime contributors and bandmates perform on the EP, with Rob Moose providing viola on “S P E Y S I D E.”

Vernon wrote the songs over the last four years “in places like Key West and the Isles of Minneapolis.” The lyrical content contains “direct projections of guilt, anguish and turmoil, but also unfinished business.”

Watch the Erinn Springer-directed video for Bon Iver’s new song, “S P E Y S I D E”:

SABLE, Tracklist

1. THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS
2. S P E Y S I D E
3. AWARDS SEASON