SABLE,
A raw, stripped-back return to acoustic foundations. Just a creaking guitar, weeping pedal steel, and a voice unpacking years of heavy, quiet grief.
A raw, stripped-back return to acoustic foundations. Just a creaking guitar, weeping pedal steel, and a voice unpacking years of heavy, quiet grief.
It sounds like Justin Vernon sitting right in front of you in a drafty cabin, finally apologizing for everything.
An intimate, heavy-hearted reckoning with personal guilt that feels like a quiet sigh of relief.
The production is built around stripped back than this artist usually allows.
“Justin Vernon’s first album in six years, SABLE, fABLE, finds the melancholic indie stalwart at his most hopeful and open”Read review
“While geared towards granting a pleasant listen throughout, fABLE can suffer from shallow entries and uncharacteristically dated production”Read review
“On his fifth album, Justin Vernon moves out of the shadows and into an unabashedly joyful mindset and soundscape. His music remains as compelling as ever”Read review
“This companion album to last year’s Sable EP gives those sorrowful songs a soulful lift, with Vernon’s beautiful falsetto vocals to the fore”Read review
“The record’s most profound and memorable experiences arrive at the hands of the tracks that are not afraid of crossing timelines, the ones that are unafraid of integration and understand there is no returning to the past”Read review
“Fans feared this could be Justin Vernon’s big farewell, but instead his embrace of sunnier climes feels like a new chapter”Read review
“Marks a return to his fragile folk roots”
“Even for those who may not be in the mood for all this peace and love, it’s hard not to read this album as a personal triumph”Read review
“A record of rare beauty and hope that fits neatly into the catalogue of an outfit that has never failed to deliver something extraordinary”Read review
“If this is indeed Bon Iver’s epilogue, the band goes out on a high note”Read review
“After foregoing the sad troubadour parable, Justin Vernon’s band is the poppiest they’ve ever been on their double-disc fifth album full of uncharacteristically clear songwriting and unfounded vocal collaborations”Read review
“Too much of this record sounds like it could have been made by almost anyone and that’s not good, and neither in the end is SABLE, fABLE”Read review
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