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.

Bon Iver gets romantic with two new singles,
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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.

The next single, “If Only I Could Wait,” illustrates the “weariness that can follow the joyous flood of new love, when one may no longer have the strength to be the best version of themselves.” This is Bon Iver, so we were never going to get an uncomplicated, completely happy ending. Still, compared to the overwhelming darkness of the album’s introductory EP, this one is positively peachy. (Or salmon-colored, to be on theme with the album’s design.)

It’s also a treat for Haim fans, the second in a week that already saw the band’s first non Barbie-related single in years. Danielle Haim duets with Vernon on the track, whose contribution he cites as the “crucial and sacred perspective” that gave rise to the album’s concept. 

“Walk Home” and “If Only I Could Wait” follow the fABLE‘s first single, “Everything Is Peaceful Love,” which arrived alongside a John Wilson-directed video last month. The full LP releases April 11. Check out the two new songs below:

 
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