Forget synthesisers, forget electro/dub-step remixing and watch this. I will happily listen to debates about why the aforementioned styles are actually amazing, but deny that this is real talent and I'll almost certainly from that moment on consider you innately twisted in the head. Sorry. I may well try and have a calm, civilised conversation with you about the issue, but my judgement will have been made.
Perhaps one reason that I find this performance so spine-tinglingly memorable is that this song has special meaning to me, but listen to some other masterpieces from Bon Iver's 'For Emma, Forever Ago' and I trust you will find my adoration to be justified. Heads up for 'Re: Stacks' and 'For The Wolves: Act I and II', especially the realistic firework-like drums at the end of the latter that embody the very explosion of feeling that first attracted me to this band.
Whoever Justin Vernon's 'Emma' is he clearly has a lot of emotions tied up with his memories of her, expressed in the release of these heartwrenching songs. Clearly three months of solitude in a Wisconsin log cabin with only a guitar for company can result in great things. This performance stands out for me because of the raw charge of passion that, regardless of the cliché, genuinely gives me goosebumps. Justin's tortured howl of 'And now all your love is wasted? Then who the hell was I?' towards the end, serves as yet another ruthlessly honest expression of his very human love-fuelled anguish. We've all been there. Enjoy.
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