Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE - April 11, 2025 Album • Page 35

the drum beat has lived rent free in my head for 15 years

 

Probably not a hot take but I think drums and percussion are the main instrument or whatever on about half or more of the songs on that record. Perth and Minnesota are the most obvious but it’s all throughout—like when they come in and out in Holocene, even the slow simple, like classic power ballad style beat on Beth/Rest etc etc

 

Oh man now I need to air drum to "Perth"

 

Every time a storm rolls in on a warm spring night, I still think of this album. Maybe my most memorable first listen ever. Wrote about it five years ago. Can't believe this thing is almost 15.

Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver

 

Bro, I'm perpetually chasing the high of that one first listen at 12:01am.

 

Yeah I absolutely remember hearing it for the first time lying in my teenage bedroom, home from college for the summer. I feel like I got the leak in the morning and may have been hungover. I felt like Mitch Kramer at the end of Dazed and Confused.

 

I remember driving to work every morning that summer at 7 am listening to that record with my windows down.

 

Some of my favorite memories as a human on this planet involve listening to that album on repeat driving around in northern New Mexico where I was living that summer. I remember one time I was driving with a friend from the mountains down into the high desert just as a thunderstorm broke the sky open around us and we were listening to it and a little stoned (drive sober kids would never do that now) and it was so fucking cool

Still put it on anytime I'm on a pretty drive or on a plane with a window seat and it's a clear day

 

Were you a scout? Then it was Cimarron NM wasn’t it? That area is gorgeous in May.

 

Cimarron NM good Bon Iver song title

 

I also vividly remember listening to the leak for the first time. I instantly called a couple of my friends over and we listened to it all evening. We were mind blown and no first listen of an album has ever or will ever come close.

shit I still remember the Perth teaser clip that was on facebook for months leading up to it. could not believe how cool the snippet of the riff was (and still is)

 

First listen of "Repave" 2 years later hit like crack too tbh because at the time nobody was sure if we were ever going to hear from him again.

 

I live in New Mexico. This sounds fantastic. I will recreate it and live vicariously through you

 

Sounds good haha the exact road was US-64 east of Taos but lots of spots that would work

 

It was near Cimarron (little farther west) but more like August and I was in college at this point

 

Spent a fair amount of my youth summers at Philmont. My dad went for trainings almost every summer.

 

Man, I am deeply envious of this. I'm fascinated by the desert, being a New Englander. I have dreams of flying into St. Louis, renting a car and driving to like Big Sur.

 

well if you ever go through with it say hi while you’re in St. Louis haha—although even the Great Plains don’t start until west of Kansas City really