{"id":26426,"date":"2016-08-29T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T17:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26426"},"modified":"2016-08-29T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T17:31:31","slug":"watch-bon-iver-lyric-video-for-new-song-33-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-08\/watch-bon-iver-lyric-video-for-new-song-33-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bon Iver Lyric Video for New Song “33 ‘GOD'”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Next month Bon Iver<\/strong><\/a> will release its first album in five years. Cause for celebration: 22, A Million<\/em><\/strong>. Justin Vernon<\/strong> and the band have today released another track from the album in the form of the lyric video for\u00a033 \u201cGOD.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Check it out below with all its sub rosa semaphores and voltaic gesticulations. Vernon<\/strong> has always been lyrically cryptic, taking pages from the early-Stipe<\/strong> bible, but 22, A Million<\/strong><\/em> sets the shroud-bar even higher. With music this compelling and Vernon’s<\/strong> emotional vocal commitment, however, we remain happy to play along at home.<\/p>\n

For those also playing along at home, there are a smattering of clues dropped along the way. The video opens with an epigraph from Psalm 22<\/strong>:\u00a0\u201cWhy are you so FAR from saving me.\u201d And there’s this from the “biography” of the album<\/a> penned by Trever Hagen<\/strong>: “If Bon Iver, Bon Iver built a habitat rooted in physical spaces, then 22, A Million is the letting go of that attachment to a place. ‘I\u2019m taking deeper consideration in another kind of place\u2013our friendships and connections to other people.’ Justin proclaims this shift in \u201933 \u201cGOD\u201d\u2019: ‘These will just be places to me now’. Rather than places we encounter a collection of numerical relationships: binary code, mystic ages, Bible chapters, math-logic, repeating infinities.” Others might argue that the title references Jesus Christ’s assumed age at death (though it could merely have referenced Vernon’s age two years ago). The song also includes cool\u00a0Paolo Nutini<\/strong> and Lonnie Holley<\/strong><\/a> clues (check the latter out at bottom).<\/p>\n

Below the lyric video you can also listen to a live version that Bon Iver<\/strong> debuted\u00a0at Justin Vernon’s\u00a0Eaux Claires Music Festival<\/strong>\u00a0a few weeks back.<\/p>\n