22 stands for Justin Vernon. The numberâ€™s recurrence in his life has become a meaningful pattern through encounter and recognition. A mile marker, a jersey number, a bill total. The reflection

22, A Million

22 stands for Justin Vernon. The numberâ€™s recurrence in his life has become a meaningful pattern through encounter and recognition. A mile marker, a jersey number, a bill total. The reflection of '2' is his identity bound up in duality: the relationship he has with himself and the relationship he has with the rest of the world. A Million is the rest of that world: the millions of people who we will never know, the infinite and the endless, everything outside oneâ€™s self that makes you who you are. The other side of Justinâ€™s duality is the thing that completes him and what he searches for. 22, A Million is thus part love letter, part final resting place of two decades of searching for self-understanding like a religion. And the inner-resolution of maybe never finding that understanding. When Justin sings, â€œIâ€™m still standing in the need of prayerâ€ he begs the question of whatâ€™s worth worshipping, or rather, what is possible to worship. If music is a sacred form of discovering, knowing and being, then Bon Iverâ€™s albums are totems to that faith. The poly-fi record formed at the congruence of a bold yet delicate sonic palette. These sounds were the way out from the suffocating enclosure and captivity of anxiety. The ten songs of 22, A Million are a collection of sacred moments, loveâ€™s torment and salvation, contexts of intense memories, signs that you can pin meaning onto or disregard coincidence. If 2011â€™s Bon Iver, Bon Iver built a habitat rooted in physical spaces, then 22, A Million is the letting go of that attachment to a place.
Country USA
Brand Jagjaguwar
Manufacturer JAGJAGUWAR
Binding Audio Cassette
ItemPartNumber 656605230047
Model 656605230047
ReleaseDate 2016-09-30
UnitCount 1
UPCs 656605230047
EANs 0656605230047

Country	USA
Brand	Jagjaguwar
Manufacturer	JAGJAGUWAR
Binding	Audio Cassette
ItemPartNumber	656605230047
Model	656605230047
ReleaseDate	2016-09-30
UnitCount	1
UPCs	656605230047
EANs	0656605230047

22, A Million

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