Bon Iver shares joyful new single ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love’

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Bon Iver has shared a new single called ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love’ – you can listen to it below.The track will appear on the Justin Vernon-led project’s fifth studio album ‘SABLE, fABLE’, which is due for release on April 11 via Jagjaguwar (pre-order/pre-save here).It’ll mark Bon Iver’s first full-length record since 2019’s ‘i, i’, and follow last year’s ‘SABLE’ EP.

The three songs featured on the latter collection – ‘Things Behind Things Behind Things’, ‘S P E Y S I D E’ and ‘Awards Season’ – will open the new LP.Arriving today (February 14), ‘SABLE, fABLE’ lead single ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love’ sees Vernon team up with filmmaker John Wilson on the upcoming accompanying visuals.

The former sings atop a glitchy and electronic instrumental on the bright, uplifting and romantic track.“‘Everything Is Peaceful Love’ gives me what I want for this album, all in one video,” Vernon said of the forthcoming clip, shot and edited by Wilson – best known for HBO‘s How To With John Wilson.“The idea that happiness and joy are the highest form and the true buoyancy of survival, and even taking yourself less seriously could heal the world.”Vernon continued: “I knew what kind of record I wanted to make the day we made ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love’.

I always knew that would be the feeling I wanted to share first.“I wanted the video to just be people smiling uncontainably.