On Tuesday, Bon Iver announced the April 11 release of the band’s upcoming album SABLE, fABLE.
This will be the band’s first album since 2019’s i,i. Justin Vernon, the band’s lead and a Wisconsin native, released the three-song, critically-claimed EP SABLE in 2024. This album is set to continue the project with a “nine-song saga.”
The announcement billed SABLE, fABLE as “Bon Iver’s next chapter: the epilogue” and described it as a “love story set to lush, radiant pop music.”
The lead single “Everything is Peaceful Love” is set to release on Friday, with a music video by John Wilson of HBO’s “How To with John Wilson.”
The new album was primarily recorded at Vernon’s April Base studio outside Eau Claire. The news release says: “Like fables, each track instills a lesson. … 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.”
Vernon has been one of Wisconsin’s most prominent artists on the national stage since his breakout Bon Iver album, For Emma, Forever Ago, famously recorded in an Eau Claire hunting cabin. In addition to the group’s four LPs, Vernon has collaborated with major artists, including Taylor Swift and The National, and founded the Eaux Claires musical festival in his hometown.
He will speak more about the album on Feb. 21 in an interview with journalist Krista Tippett at Brooklyn’s On Air Fest. The interview will be made available on On Being podcast.
