Bon Iver - Calgary I often struggle with what I...

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Bon Iver - Calgary

I often struggle with what I expect from the follow-up to an artist’s debut. Do I want it to sound the same, at the risk of cheapening what made me fall for the group in the first place? Do I want it to be a departure, at the risk of completely turning me off from the group and any subsequent efforts? It’s the true embodiment of a “game time decision.” I think I’ve made the right one here. Bon Iver has a sound that’s so completely identifiabe that even his efforts to stray from his last album, end up coming full circle in a way that I can’t get mad at. Not even a little.

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