“Naeem” by Bon Iver

"Naeem" came out as part of i,i, Bon Iver's fourth album, which the band rolled out track by track, one an hour, on August 8, 2019, before the proper release the next day. Justin Vernon wrote the words and shares the music with J. T. Bates, BJ Burton, Brad Cook, Noah Goldstein and Trever Hagen, and he produced it with Cook and Chris Messina, with Burton and TU DANCE adding production.

The credit sheet reads like a crowd scene. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus fills out the choir, Rob Moose plays violin and viola, Worm Crew brings the horn, Psymun works a sampler and Toni Pierce-Sands adds handclaps, while Jenn Wasner, Graham Tolbert and Christian Warner sing alongside Vernon. Zach Hanson and Messina mixed it. It's communal to the bone.

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