Bon Iver - 22, A Million Where Shall You Take Me? (Opaque Orange Vinyl)

Bon Iver - 22, A Million Where Shall You Take Me? (Opaque Orange Vinyl)Vinyl LP pressing. 22 stands for Justin Vernon. The number's recurrence in his life has become a meaningful pattern through encounter and recognition. A mile marker, a jersey number, a bill total. The reflection of '2' is his identity bound up in duality: the relationship he has with himself and the relationship he has with the rest of the world. A Million is the rest of that world: the millions of people who we will never know, the infinite and the

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but it was very surprising when I heard it the first time

and Jaco Pastorius (under the name Nelson "Jocko" Padron)

The anthemic guitar heroics present on Pablo Honey and even The Bends are nowhere to be heard here

You hear it in songs like "Ala Vida

fueled by a smoldering mix of booze and a youthful hunger to unlock the secrets of old world jazz

he urged them to forget the careful planning they'd done and just play the stuff

One can hear Van Zandt's influences in covers by artists like Bo Diddley

the recent detention camps only a mile beyond

fueled by dazzling vocal arrangements punctuated with gritty bursts of guitar and crunchy rhythm breaks

At just 22 years old

They would go on to record another masterpiece in 1989's Doolittle but it's the gruesome glory of Surfer Rosa