Bon Iverandfilmmaker John Wilsonhave teamed up to create the ultimate expression of kind vibes, with the latter delivering a delightfully charming new music video for the formers new single, Everything Is Peaceful Love.
The track is classic Bon Iver an inventive and lush pop gem full of ebullient joy and serenity: And damn if Im not climbing up a tree, right nowJustin Vernoncroons, reaching higher into his falsetto, And everything is peaceful love and right in me.
In a statement, Vernon said Everything Is Peaceful Love set the tone for hisnew album,SABLE, fABLE, adding I always knew that would be the feeling I wanted to share first.
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To that end, he wanted the music video to just be people smiling uncontainably, and upon the suggestion of artist Eric Timothy Carlson, he reached out Wilson to direct it.
Vernon called Wilsonscelebrated old showHow To With John Wilsonthe most poignant and hilarious program in all of television, and the filmmaker brings that exact same energy to the Everything Is Peaceful Love clip.
LikeHow To, the visual comprises footage Wilson shot out in the world and then edited together a collage of funny animals and big-hearted interactions, interspersed with some of Wilsons more bizarro finds (the last 30 seconds is what is acting like a man gazing at an old episode ofThe Daily Showwith a giant grin plastered across his face).
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Bon Iver announcedSABLE, fABLEearlier this week, and the album is set to arrive April 11.
It marks Bon Ivers first full-length effort since 2019sI,I, though the group previewed half of the LP withlast yearsSableEP(all four tracks from that project will appear on disc one of the full album).
IfSABLE, was the prologue, thenfABLEis the book but together,SABLE, fABLEis the album, and for that reason it is no fairy tale, Vernon said upon announcing hte album.
There may be something undeniably healing about infatuation, and the intense clarity, focus, honesty and celebration it brings to these songs.