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Generally favorable reviews- based on 170 Ratings
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Positive: 139 out of 170
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Mixed: 17 out of 170
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Negative: 14 out of 170
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Aug 15, 2019Bon Iver's best album. An absolute masterpiece with no bad tracks and no weak moments. "Naeem" is arguably the best thing Justin Vernon has ever written.
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Aug 9, 2019a more than welcome fourth addition to bon ivers flawless discography. justin vernon can do no wrong.
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Aug 9, 2019This album is out of our world. Beautiful, well structured with gorgeous sound.
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Aug 9, 2019i,i beautifully encompasses all previous Bon Iver efforts into their most honest, beautiful release to date. Justin Vernon’s brilliance as an artist has reached a crescendo that is nothing short of breathtaking.
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Aug 10, 2019
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Aug 12, 2019
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Aug 27, 2019Bon Iver's i,i is a mesmerizing journey that emits radiance in every corner, every note, and every segment.
Each tone in every song has its differences, but somehow it aligned wonderfully and well-crafted. Almost there is no intended boundaries between these songs. -
Aug 30, 2019Carey and Chancellor stand out in a superb way. All of the songs have a perfect build up and odd time signatures just adds perfectly.
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Aug 31, 2019This album speaks volume
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Aug 31, 2019En este nuevo trabajo de swift se puede apreciar la madurez de la artista y una gran evolución musicalmente la forma en la que usa las trompetas y el saxofón es magnífico y su voz suena increíble y como manejó la composición y toda la elaboración de cada canción es alguien de admirar, sin duda uno de sus mejores trabajos que ha elaborado
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Sep 1, 2019This album is genuinely beautiful. From front to back it is constantly entertaining, heartwarming, and emotional. Justin Vernon’s vocals stay great throughout the project and even seems to have a light country influence on some of the tracks. My favorite songs include iMi, Hey Ma, and Faith.
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Apr 18, 2021Great album , But it takes time to get used it's sound , because the production and the vocals are so unique .
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Aug 20, 2019Bon Iver manages to further the sound of 22, A Million by fusing its electronic tones with experimental jazz. Truly this is a jazz album for the 21st century and probably one of the best albums released so far this year. Listen to: Hey Ma, We, U (Man Like).
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Aug 13, 2019Simply put, it's phenomenal. It's almost as if Justin Vernon is channeling someone or something from beyond. I'd describe it as akin witnessing a truly spiritual experience.
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Aug 9, 2019Loving the mix of old and new sounds. Such a great variety of songs with many harkening back to the earliest mix of classic Bon Iver. His precision, innovation and tightly wound rhythms and lyrics make for another winner of an album.
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Sep 1, 2019
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Aug 9, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Aug 11, 2019This album continues to follow the experimental route as their previous work 22 a Million but really takes it up a notch. From beginning to end you’re in for a trip! Favorite album so far this year honestly
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Sep 4, 2019Another great, though less ambitious, album by a band that deserves much more credit than they get.
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Oct 18, 2019
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Aug 11, 2019
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Aug 14, 2019
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Aug 15, 2019Bon Iver tried to color the landscape with glitchy, staggering and minimal storytelling once again.
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Aug 30, 2019
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Feb 9, 2020Eu voltava pra casa ouvindo i,i, mas o sentimento de solidão que ele me trouxe foi caótico, ele é lindo demais quando escutado em meio da natureza ou viajando.
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Aug 9, 2019For an album seemingly about clarity and enlightenment, "I,I" sounds like it's stuck in a perpetual fog.
The lyrics are consistently awful, with some of the worst pyschobabble I have ever heard.
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Sep 3, 2019
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Dec 6, 2021rich and endlessly rewarding. i,i brings together Justin Vernon's evolving, career-spanning vision for Bon Iver into one satisfying, defining work.
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Apr 8, 2021This is the sound of a warm, human futurism. A record that feels impressionistic and abstract, dominated once again, more by feeling than theme.
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Jan 11, 2022This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 4, 2019i,i is by no means a bad album, however, compared to everything he's done before, this is his weakest release to date. The songs aren't that memorable and beg to be skipped to the album's brighter moments (which are few and far between). At the end of the day, i,i falls short of greatness for being bland, sluggish and sadly, just a little boring.
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Aug 12, 2019
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Sep 3, 2019This album is an abomination. This line encompasses it for me: "I fell off a bass boat/And the concrete's very slow." Jesus Christ. I feel like Bon Iver is on a steady downward trajectory; this what a band of self-indulgent stoners aurally masturbating sounds like. Justin Vernon is too talented to be creating **** like this.
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Dec 18, 2019This album has the worst singles I have ever heard. These songs are dull and fall flat of normal expectations. This album has the worst pacing of any album I have ever heard. Plus this album is dull and boring. Justin is one of the biggest disappointments of the last twenty years. Justin falls short of ambitions, and expectations, and is to be avoided at all costs.
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Aug 23, 2019
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Sep 12, 2019Just as bad as the last album, why Justin goes down this road of sound pollution is beyond me. The first two albums are my all time favorites. Followed by two of the worst album I've ever heard in my life :(
Awards & Rankings
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Oct 1, 2019It’s comprised largely of several years of demos and “field recordings” and collected samples and experiments and improvisations. Perhaps that’s why it feels so novel at the precipice of a new decade; after 10(+) years of failed political experiments and improvisations, here’s a new songbook stripped of the arrogance and pretense of capitalist evangelism.
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Sep 4, 2019If 22, A Million could come off as sometimes cold and always anxious, then i,i is the warm flipside, with songs that float and flutter, that call for resilience rather than resignation. ... This record finds power in its collaborations.
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Sep 3, 2019Some will no doubt ponder why it takes a village to make a record that feels far more isolated than communal, but the overall effect of “i,i” is not that of a disaffected wall of sound. Neither is it meant to be Vernon’s “happy” record, though such reductive distinctions are rarely an accurate portrayal of an album’s true intent. Instead, it’s wild and fragmented, as nature intended.