22, a Million by Bon Iver

22, A Million, Bon Iver's third album, came out on Jagjaguwar on September 30, 2016, and it takes the hushed folk that Justin Vernon first made alone in a Wisconsin cabin and runs it through the shredder. Vernon produced it himself at his April Base studio in Eau Claire, and the result is a jolt: glitching electronics, song titles that read like cryptograms, and fragments of folk and art pop scattered across the wreckage.

Much of it finds Vernon wrestling with the band's growing fame and how it had changed the way he stood in the world. The album premiered at his own Eaux Claires festival, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and picked up Grammy nominations for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package. "33 God" and "8 (circle)" are where the static parts and something human breaks through.

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