“THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS” by Bon Iver

"THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS" comes from Sable, the second Bon Iver EP, which Jagjaguwar released in October 2024 as Justin Vernon steered the project back toward the bare, hushed indie folk of For Emma, Forever Ago and Blood Bank. Vernon recorded the EP's core songs at his April Base studio in Wisconsin, called the whole thing very personal, and within months it had been folded into the fifth Bon Iver album, Sable, Fable.

He wrote this one with Phil Cook and Trever Hagen and carries a lot of it himself, singing, playing guitar, bass and drums, and mixing it, with Jim-E Stack and Asher Weisberg sharing the production. The guests bring the warmth: guitar from Greg Leisz and Ben Lester, pedal steel from Lester, and flute and trumpet from Hagen, a close, wood-grained setting for a record whose title points toward near-blackness.

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