Bon Iver - 33 "GOD"

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Info: Bon Iver is an American indie folk band founded in 2007 by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. The band also includes Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, Colin Stetson and Matthew McCaughan amongst others. After the breakup of the band DeYarmond Edison, a failed relationship and a bout with mononucleosis, Vernon left Raleigh, North Carolina, and moved back to his hometown, to spend the oncoming winter months at his father's cabin in Medford, Wisconsin. Settling down with a heavy heart, Vernon started writing songs. He ended up spending four months living and working in isolation in the middle of a snowbound winter; chopping wood by day, playing the blues at night. According to Vernon, it was during this time that the "Bon Iver" moniker first entered his mind; while bedridden with mononucleosis, he began watching the 1990s TV series Northern Exposure on DVD. One episode depicts a group of citizens in Alaska, where the show is set, emerging from their homes into the first snowfall of the winter and wishing one another bon hiver (French for "good winter"). The outcome was, For Emma, Forever Ago, a set of sad songs, where Emma — the middle-name of an ex-girlfriend— can be found all over his lyrics. The album was officially released in January 2008. In 2009, Bon Iver released the Blood Bank EP, essentially an addendum to the For Emma, Forever Ago. Late in 2009, Vernon debuted his side-project, Volcano Choir, an ad-hoc collaboration with members of Wisconsin post-rock ensemble Collections of Colonies of Bees. In 2011, Bon Iver finally released the long-awaited follow-up to For Emma, Forever Ago. The self-titled second Bon Iver LP was a set of songs each written about different places in the world. The praise for Bon Iver was overwhelming. Bon Iver won the 2012 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album for their album Bon Iver, Bon Iver. Their third album, 22, A Million, was release in September 2016.