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Goodbye, 2025! Check out 7 of our favourite test tracks of the year

2025 signs off in style

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‘It explored the spectrum of humanity’: the enduring pleasures of Northern Exposure

The quirky early 90s drama ran for 110 episodes, had fans in Joni Mitchell and Bon Iver, and showed one of TV’s first gay weddings. Now, having been forgotten for years, its warm-hearted charms are being discovered by a new generation

The Guardian - UK

I'm hooked on the new Bon Iver x Pantone colour collab

Behold fABLE Salmon.

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“I did that by myself at my house in about 20 minutes. They said, ‘Sing this.’ I said, ‘OK’”: How Bon Iver’s billion-stream collab with Taylor Swift came together in record time

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon reveals that his contribution to Swift's Grammy-winning indie-folk opus was recorded in less time than you probably expected

MusicRadar

Seven albums to listen to during a breakup – from Lily Allen to Marvin Gaye

Lily Allen’s bombshell new album, West-End Girl, has caused a sensation for its depiction of a marriage torn apart. Though the singer has described it as a blend of fact and fiction, fans have taken it to be an account of her breakup with Stranger Things actor David Harbour.

The Conversation

“I didn’t write any of these chords or anything – this just came straight from a sample”: Bon Iver and Jim-E Stack break down the making of Day One

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon also reveals the vintage instrument behind the song's bassline, which he says is his "favourite synth ever"

MusicRadar

“Where words fail, music speaks”: Why storytelling through music surpasses all other art forms

Narrative in music isn’t always about just what’s being said within a song’s lyrics - it’s what the music triggers in the core of the listener

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"I never want the sample to be the whole thing - I want to mask it": Loukeman reveals his favourite plugins and unusual production techniques

Toronto-based producer Loukeman talks his new project Sd-2, sampling techniques and unconventional effects processing

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‘I’ve never been so obsessed with a band’: readers’ best albums of 2025 so far

Bad Bunny blasting bigotry against Puerto Ricans, Davido’s 5ive’s uplifting vibes and a blast from trip-hop’s past. Here’s what has caught your ear this year

The Guardian - UK

“I was like, ‘What’s the story with this guitar because it is god ugly’”: Bon Iver swapped an expensive 1960s Martin for a “hideous” budget Ibanez that had been rejected by a rehab center for his new album

The “hideous” $199 guitar was deemed to be a better choice than a vintage gem that would have guitar enthusiasts drooling

Guitar World

"He takes this expensive Martin from the '60s, we test it and I'm like, 'cool'. But it's just not quite making me excited - it's not doing the thing": Why Bon Iver chose a "hideous" $199 Ibanez rejected by a rehab centre over a vintage Martin for Speyside

"I was like, 'what's the story with this guitar, because it is god ugly'"

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“This is my favourite part. I knew it was good because I couldn’t get through it without sobbing”: Bon Iver breaks down his duet with Danielle Haim in BBC’s Maida Vale Studios

Justin Vernon and Jim-E Stack crack open the Pro Tools projects for Speyside, Walk Home and If Only I Could Wait for BBC Radio 6 Music

MusicRadar

Bon Iver - ranked: from Sable, Fable to For Emma, Forever Ago

As Justin Vernon releases an unexpectedly buoyant fifth album, we chart his path from backwoods crooner to indie-pop icon

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"We were sampling Steve Winwood in between bong rips on my OP-1": How Bon Iver met Haim backstage at a music festival - and ended up collaborating a decade later

Danielle Haim features on Bon Iver's If Only I Could Wait, from new album SABLE, fABLE

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Bon Iver's Justin Vernon reveals Taylor Swift's Folklore and Evermore collaborations were Big Red Machine demos originally

Justin Vernon has revealed Taylor Swift's 2020 collaborations from her sister records 'Folklore' and 'Evermore' were actually Big Red Machine demos.

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Ranked: Bon Iver's albums, from Sable, Fable to For Emma, Forever Ago

As Justin Vernon releases an unexpectedly buoyant fifth album, we chart his path from backwoods crooner to indie-pop icon

Euronews

Bon Iver's ‘SABLE, fABLE’: Euronews Culture's verdict

With their most joyful and comforting album yet, Bon Iver have finally made it out of the woods.

The Guardian - UK

Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – Justin Vernon’s most easy-going record yet

This companion album to last year’s Sable EP gives those sorrowful songs a soulful lift, with Vernon’s beautiful falsetto vocals to the fore

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Bon Iver swerves subject of Kanye West amid rapper’s ongoing scandals

Indie-folk musician, who has just released a new album, worked with the controversial rapper on records including ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’

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Bon Iver's Justin Vernon felt sad not to be married

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon has confessed he used to feel sad not to be married because he has been dreaming about his big day since he was eight years old.

The Independent UK

On SABLE, fABLE, it’s cool to hear Bon Iver having fun at last

4/5 Justin Vernon’s version of ‘radiant pop music’ is to brighten his earthy, acoustic landscapes with synths and drum pads

The Guardian - UK

‘Have the courage to walk away’: Bon Iver on romance, retirement and his rapturous new record

Riven with anxiety from years of touring, Justin Vernon found he couldn’t leave the house. Then a new relationship changed his concept of love. His radiant new album shares the revelations

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“Not quite my cup of tea… I feel like I’d hear this on iHeartRadio or something”: Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon takes to the streets of New York to play people his new album… and nobody knows who he is

“YouTube lo-fi beat right now, but hey, it might go somewhere,” says one listener

Euronews

Culture Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

From healing your inner child at London's Opera Gallery to experiencing first date horror on the big screen — here's what's on the cultural agenda this week.

MusicRadar

“That was the first time where I was actually, like, really, really, really humbled”: Bon Iver’s new album features a collaboration with Mk.gee, a musician who “reignited something” in him when he watched him play with Dijon on tour

Jacob Collier also has a writing credit on the song

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