Bon Iver gets romantic with two new singles, "Walk Home" and "If Only I Could Wait"
Danielle Haim features on the latter of the two tracks.
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Daylight savings presents aren’t a thing, but they really should be. Anyway, Bon Iver just gave us two. We survived a long, dark winter, and now, we get to listen to two (relatively) sunny new tracks from the returning multihyphenate. fABLE, the upcoming continuation of his SABLE, EP from last fall, is a love story, and both new tracks take us deeper into the tale.
The first is “Walk Home,” which Vernon describes in a statement as a “romp where you can’t wait to pull your clothes off fast enough and jump inside bed with your one true lover.” That’s a little overwrought, but Justin Vernon, the artist behind the Bon Iver moniker, rarely writes so explicitly about sex, so he gets a pass here. “No we don’t need no window curtains/And we can let the light come in/And we can shed your earthly burdens/Of this I am certain of/You was made for me,” he sings over a synth-heavy beat that recalls his most recent album, i,i.