For Emma, Forever Ago

Label
Jagjaguwar
Release date
19 Feb 2008
Running length
9 tracks
Running time
36:57

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Flume 3:33 621,753
2 Lump Sum 3:20 471,346
3 Skinny Love 3:57 747,292
4 The Wolves (Act I and II) 5:20 429,165
5 Blindsided 5:28 455,540
6 Creature Fear 3:05 428,893
7 Team 1:56 420,871
8 For Emma 3:39 477,495
9 Re: Stacks 6:39 436,306

About this album

For Emma, Forever Ago is the debut album from Wisconsin band Bon Iver. It was self-released in 2007 and received wider release on the Jagjaguwar label in February 2008 (and on the 4AD label in the UK in May 2008). The album was widely acclaimed, receiving spots on critics’ end-of-the-year lists, as well as several awards. Following the break-up of his previous band DeYarmond Edison, Justin Vernon, suffering from mononucleosis, secluded himself in a cabin in Medford, Wisconsin for three months planning to “hibernate. ” Three months of solitude resulted in the creation of For Emma, Forever Ago. “All of his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss and guilt that had been stockpiled over the course of the past six years, was suddenly purged into the form of song.” The record is entirely the creation of Justin Vernon; “despite its complexity, the record was created with nothing more than a few microphones and some aged recording equipment.”
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