You may or may not find Bon Iver in the “I” section at your local record store. Wisconsinite Justin Vernon manipulated the French phrase for “good winter” for the one-man-band name. And a fitting name it is. For Emma, Forever Ago is the result of Vernon’s three-month solitary stay in a cabin in a remote part of his home state, where he turned frustration and heartbreak into a haunting set of songs featuring bare-bones instrumentation and his ghostly voice whispering, creaking and moaning through it all. Initially self-released in 2007, the album found a label last year, which has kept its winter going for months and months on end, no doubt helped by some of its songs appearing on Grey’s Anatomy. But the TV support shouldn’t undercut a beautifully cohesive statement made by a guy bummed out in a cabin in the cold. Alone.

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