• News

• All

Sep 15, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Bon Iver

Bon Iver (Justin Vernon and band) are releasing a new album, 22, A Million, on September 30 via Jagjaguwar. Previously we had been treated to extended versions the album’s first three tracks, “22 (OVER S∞∞N),” “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄,” and “33 ‘GOD’.” Bon Iver (Justin Vernon and band) are releasing a new album, 22, A Million, on September 30 via Jagjaguwar. Previously we had been treated to extended versions the album’s first three tracks, “22 (OVER S∞∞N),” “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄,” and “33 ‘GOD’.” Last night the band stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform a brand new song from the album, “8 (a circle).” “This guy’s always doing something amazing,” said Fallon when introducing the performance, and afterwards the host gushed, “I don’t know how you do it, I got a thousand questions.” The performance featured backing vocals from The Staves, Anaïs Mitchell, Gordi, and Arone Dyer of Buke & Gase. Watch below, followed by Bon Iver’s upcoming tour dates.

The album is the follow-up to 2011’s Bon Iver and was recorded and produced mainly at April Base Studios in Fall Creek, WI, with portions also recorded in London, England and just outside Lisbon, Portugal by Vernon and “a pack of trusted friends and collaborators both new and old.”

A press release describes the album as such: “22, A Million is part love letter, part final resting place of two decades of searching for self-understanding like a religion. And the inner-resolution of maybe never finding that understanding. The album’s 10 poly-fi recordings are a collection of sacred moments, love’s torment and salvation, contexts of intense memories, signs that you can pin meaning onto or disregard as coincidence. If Bon Iver built a habitat rooted in physical spaces, then 22, A Million is the letting go of that attachment to a place.”

Bon Iver Tour Dates:

10-01-02 Berlin, Germany - Michelberger Music at Funkhaus
10-18 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater *
10-19 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater *
10-20 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater *
10-22 Orange County, CA - Beach Goth
10-23 Los Angeles, CA - The Hollywood Bowl &%
10-26 San Diego, CA - Copley Symphony Hall ^
01-22 Paris, France - Le Zenith
01-23 Utretch, Netherlands - Tivolivredenburg
01-24 Frankfurt, Germany - Jahrhunderthalle
01-25 Zurich, Switzerland - Samsung Hall
01-27 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg - Rockhal
01-29 Oslo, Norway - Spektrum
01-30-31 Stockholm, Sweden - Cirkus
02-02-03 Copenhagen, Denmark - Den Grå Hal
02-05 Hamburg, Germany - Mehr! Theater
02-06 Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom
02-08 Brussels, Belgium - Forest National
02-10 Blackpool, England - Empress Ballroom
02-12-13 Edinburgh, Scotland - Playhouse Theatre
02-15-16 London, England - Roundhouse
02-19 London, England - Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

* with Francis and the Lights
& with Patti Smith
% with Hiss Golden Messenger
^ with Julianna Barwick