Bon Iver’s i,i and indie rock’s environmental apocalypse

Bon Iver albums are not known for their scrutability. Justin Vernon has long favored words’ sounds over their meanings, peppering his albums with neologisms like “dedicoding” and “paramind,” and encrypting the lyrics further still with a dense inter-album mythos of numerology and religious arcana and autobiography.…

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Source: Kotaku – Bon Iver’s i,i and indie rock’s environmental apocalypse