Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Bon Iver is the second studio album by American indie folk band Bon Iver, originally released in June 2011 via Jagjaguwar Records.

Bon Iver's second album was built around Justin Vernon, the band leader and founder. He hired well known players like bass saxophonist Colin Stetson and pedal-steel guitarist Greg Leisz to record this album.

Bon Iver’s second album is described as an "ambitious musical departure" from the first studio album For Emma, Forever Ago (2007).

The album was recorded in a remodelled veterinarian clinic in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, which was bought by Vernon and his brother in 2008. It was converted into April Base Studios, built mainly over the defunct swimming pool attached to the clinic. Vernon's reason for recording in the location was that "… it’s been a wonderful freedom, working in a place we built. It's also only three miles from the house I grew up in, and just ten minutes from the bar where my parents met..."

The album was released to critical acclaim, and reached #2 on the US Billboard 200, #4 on the UK and #2 on the Australian albums charts.

This album is a 2017 reissue on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, with a 14 page booklet and download code, pressed in the US via Jagjaguwar Records.