Bon Iver - For Emma, Foreever Ago (ReVINYL Edition) (Jagjaguawar)

Bon Iver’s debut full-length ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ made major waves in critics’ circles based on the strength of an early artist-pressed advance CD and a couple of awe-inspiring sets at CMJ back in October 2007. The New York Times called it “irresistible” and Pitchfork stamped its early review of the album with a Recommended tag.

For those of you hiding away in a cabin of your own, it’s time that you hear the story, and more importantly, the music. Bon Iver (pronounced: bohn eevair; French for “good winter” and spelt wrong on purpose) is a greeting, a celebration and a sentiment. It is a new statement of an artist moving on and establishing the groundwork for a lasting career.

For Emma, Forever Ago is the debut of this lineage of songs. As a whole, the record is entirely cohesive and remains centred on a particular aesthetic, shaped by the time and place in which it was recorded. 

Justin Vernon, the primary force behind Bon Iver, seems to have tested his boundaries to the maximum, and in doing so has managed to break free from any pre-cursing or finished forms. It wasn’t planned. The goal was to hibernate. Vernon moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter. He lived there alone for three months, filling his days with wood splitting and other chores around the land.

This solitary time slowly began feeding a bold, uninhibited new musical focus. The days slowly evolved into nights filled with twelve-hour recording blocks, breaking only for trips on the tractor into the pines to saw and haul firewood, or for frozen sunrises high up a deer stand. All of his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss and guilt that had been stockpiled over the course of the past six years, was suddenly purged into the form of song.

Tracklisting

Flume

Lump Sum

Skinny Love

The Wolves (Act I and II)

Blindsided

Creature Fear

Team

For Emma

Re: Stacks

Version: Black ReVINYL Edition LP

Released: 5^th June 2026

Catalogue Number: JAG115LP-C3 0617308040104

Condition: New Sealed

Secretly Group has joined with Music Declares Emergency and the Music Climate Pact to mark World Environment Day 2026 by releasing several special-edition releases on 100% reclaimed vinyl. Read more about how The Music Climate Pact is working to make vinyl records more sustainable here. Each record looks unique while still sounding fantastic.