I still remember hearing 'Skinny Love' for the first time on triple j when I was 18 and for ages I had no idea who the band was but I was obsessed with this song (probably like a whole bunch of other people were!). I also remember buying the album from HMV, going home so excited to listen to For Emma, Forever Ago and afterwards thinking that I hadn't heard anything so beautiful in such a long time. Fast track a couple of years and once again Bon Iver stole my heart with Blood Bank and Woods. Woods especially was and still is such an escape song for me, it reminds me of my favourite movie Into the Wild and whenever I feel like the city is getting too much for me, I just put this song on and just escape. Being completely obsessed with Bon Iver and even Justin Vernon's solo songs (The Orient and the Gatsby's Slew of Choices...incredible) I couldn't of been more excited for when Bon Iver, Bon Iver was released. While I was listening to the album I couldn't help but cry. I honestly simply just felt so much with this album, every song was perfect, I hadn't heard such a beautiful album quite like this that all I could do was cry because I felt as though every song was a part of me, it was just insanely beautiful.
Tonight I was finally lucky enough to go see Bon Iver play at one of the best venues in Brisbane, The Tivoli. This was by far one of my favourite gigs I have been to. I knew I was going to be impressed and be in love but it still took me by surprise just how amazing it was. Every song they played was perfect, Justin was funny, I had a perfect position for the gig, it really couldn't of been better. Bon Iver is one of the few bands for me that makes me scared, especially now after seeing them live. They make me scared in a way where I hear something of theirs that's so beautiful, the lyrics are so perfect that it makes me scared and in a way useless that I will never create something so beautiful or something that has as much impact as what they have done and in a strange way that's what I also love about them too. I love that their music can make me feel so much in a way that nothing else does, that hearing Bon Iver play live, hearing Justin's incredible voice that it actually feels like this music has made its way inside of me, that I'm feeling it circulate around inside my body. That even though I am in a room full of people, that when I closed my eyes just to really listen that it feels like I am the only one in the room.
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