Justin Vernon Confirms "Third Cycle" For Reinvigorated Bon Iver

In a recent interview, Justin Vernon confirms he is dusting off the Bon Iver moniker for a full-on return.

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Justin Vernon, full-time mystery and part-time Kanye West collaborator, serves as curator for this summer's Eaux Claires Music Festival — an admirably stacked festival in Vernon's hometown featuring Sufjan Stevens, The National, and others. Naturally, Eaux Claires is set to feature a performance from Bon Iver — Vernon's Grammy-winning band whose 2009 song "Woods" eventually became the 'Ye classic "Lost in the World."

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The assumptions surrounding Bon Iver's Eaux Claires performance were that the band would reap the benefits of a no-strings-attached, one-off performance not uncommon during peak festival season. However, Vernon has much bigger plans for the reinvigorated band. Speaking with Minneapolis' KARE 11, Vernon says he considers the Eaux Claires performance to be the beginning of the band's "third cycle."


"[This festival] is the perfect platform for us to be like, this is how we’re starting this new cycle, new life of the band. It makes so much sense to start it here."

As CoS notes, the status of Bon Iver has remained an on-again, off-again pattern of distancing and embrace since releasing their self-titled sophomore album in 2011. The current cycle of embrace begins July 17 in Wisconsin.

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