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| For Emma, Forever Ago | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bon Iver
Label: Jagjaguar
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 965
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 115
UPC: 656605211527
EAN: 0656605211527
ASIN: B0011HF6GE
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 Just beautiful July 11, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm better at writing about books than music, so I'll keep this short. This is one of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard. Rather than tell you what it sounds like, I'll just say that I have listened to this so many times that if it was a vinyl record, the sound would be terrible by now. (And as a 30 something who seems to get bored with things much more easily nowadays, that is saying something.) Touching guitar, understated production, inexplicable lyrics - this is an album to put your soul at peace. God bless Bon Iver.
my favorite for this year!!!!!!!! June 20, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
play and play this cd and you will feel his voice...his music...into you..its great almost scary so beautifull!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Emma! June 20, 2008
For Emma, Forever Ago was created by American singer-songwriter Justin Vernon in the spring of 2007. After breaking up with his girlfriend he hauled his weary and troubled soul to a remote cabin in Wisconsin, living for three months on nothing but Deer meat and water, and poured his heart out onto the basic recording equipment that he had.
It's been a long time, longer than I can remember, since I have heard an album of such immense beauty. Every track is packed with so much emotion that, if you have a heart, cannot fail to floor you. Gentle acoustic guitars and Vernon's incredible voice, think Jeff & Tim Buckley mixed with a sprinkle of Princes' falsetto and you are someway to describing it, make up the bulk of the album with the occasional smattering of basic drums and horns added in to great effect.
It would be hard to pick a standout track as every one is purely sublime, but if I had to then it would be the album's closer re:stacks. Near on six minutes of one the most beautiful songs you will ever hear about losing a love.
To sum up, I think this is a wonderful record, as you may have gathered, and if you don't have it already then I beg you to buy it right now, drop what you are doing and head to the nearest record shop and buy it. If you don't then, well, there is no hope really.
 Hope One Day I Like it More - NOW I DO!!!!!! May 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
MY REVIEW AS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOLLOWS. BUT I WAS WRONG. TERRIBLY WRONG. 5 STARS (how do I change the star rating??) A BONA FIDE CLASSIC.
I don't know whether I'm getting old, twisted, or perhaps just down right addled by hype, but I fail to see how so many glowing reviews have been bestowed on this quiet little CD. The tunes are pleasant, the sentiment clear and the arrangments are 'different'. But five stars? Surely not. Imagine TV on the Radio strumming round the camp fire, a little bit drunk and probably in need of bed. Interesting yes. Worthy of a listen definitely. A grower, maybe. But to receive such warm praise from the press (Uncut etc.) leaves wondering how impartial our music media truly is. Take the latest by Drive By Truckers, for instance, another 5 star classic in Uncut! I am addled, obviously.
YES DOUGAL, YOU ARE.
 Man Sulks in Shed May 28, 2008
14 out of 21 found this review helpful
Like a beautifully textured carpet but not as interesting. Short on melody, lyrically threadbare with some cod Beach Boys harmonising and rudimentary strumming. There are some obvious influences here (Bonny Prince Billy, Iron & Wine, Mercury Rev etc).
The Appalachian cabin and broken heart is a journalistic eye catcher; it certainly sounds more authentic than being chucked and sulking in a garden shed. But a lot of great albums germinate in solitude and are the result of emotional turmoil, so it's really nothing new.
One also wonders about the wisdom of a bear of a man singing in a keening multitracked falsetto as a way of recapturing a lost girlfriend. A bottle of chardonnay and a Barry White platter would probably have been far more effective.
The album is moderately good in parts - but not that original, and not that poetic (despite some clumsy obscurity). After 4 listens all the way through - it is pretty samey. It's doubtful the 2nd album will be received so rapturously.
The more fanatical fans and disciples should maybe get themselves a portastudio and have a go themselves. The deeper they delve - the less impressed they will be with this particular work.
On a positive note, and in a similar field, try "After The Gold Rush" - Neil Young (for an example of fantastically tuneful high pitch warbling), early Elliott Smith (for musical & lyrical invention) or most Nick Drake (the original man in a shed).
Despite the hype, I'd advise giving this a good long stint on the listening post before buying.
File under - sensitive mock olde timey cove with a beard; they are legion at the moment.
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