(in no specific order)

“Up with your turret, aren’t we just terrified?” (Roslyn)

“Don’t you lock when you’re fleeing. I’d like not to hear keys” (Beach baby)

“If it’s harmed me, it’s harmed, it’ll harm me, I’ll let in” (00000 million)

“Where the days have no numbers” (00000 million)

“I wander off just to come back home” (00000 million)

“And it’s hard to find it when you knew it” (Re: stacks)

“Everything that happens is from now on” (Re: stacks)

“And at once I knew I was not magnificent” (Holocene)

“I could see for miles, miles, miles, miles” (Holocene)

“A womb, an empty robe, enough, you’re rolling up, you’re holding it, you’re fabric now” (29 #Strafford APTS)

“When your eyes are all painted Sinatra blue” (The wolves (Act I and II))

“Where you gonna look for confirmation?” (22 (Over S∞N))

“There I found you marked in constellation” (22 (Over S∞N))

“Not sure what forgiveness is” (8 (circle))

19. 22, A Million by Bon Iver

In at number 19 on my albums of the year list is 22, A Million, the weird and wonderful third studio album from Bon Iver. Although relatively short for an album in the streaming age at just over 30 minutes long, the latest creation from Justin Vernon has the enviable quality of sounding like nothing else released this year.

Further expanding his own unique combination of folk and electronica (or “Folktronica” if you prefer), 22, A Million is more a series of distorted and fleeting sonic textures than a traditional album, with suitably bizarre song titles to match. However every now and then, these unusual blends come coherently together to make for some truly special musical moments. Always interesting, Bon Iver’s latest definitely deserves to be named amongst the most innovative records of 2016.

Bon Iver - 8 (circle)