Bon Iver has released two new singles, “If Only I Could Wait” featuring Danielle Haim and “Walk Home.” The tracks were previewed on March 13, 2025, via a live camera trail before their official release. “Walk Home” continues the story from a previous single, focusing on themes of “sex and irrepressible desire,” according to a press release. Justin Vernon sings, “We don’t need no window curtains.
We can let the light come in, we can shed your earthly burdens.”
“If Only I Could Wait” features intertwined vocals that show the tiredness that can come after the initial excitement of new love, when it becomes hard to keep up the best version of oneself. These songs will be on Bon Iver’s fifth studio album, “SABLE, fABLE,” which will be out on April 11 through Jagjaguwar. Vernon said he chose to release a double single on purpose.
“‘Walk Home’ is a vibrant, urgent track about a deep connection,” he said. “And ‘If Only I Could Wait’ is a reflective, bilateral crying question.
Bon Iver’s new chapter
How long can we hold onto each other?”
“SABLE, fABLE” will be Bon Iver’s first full-length record since 2019. It comes after last year’s EP. The EP’s tracks, “Things Behind Things Behind Things” and “Awards Season,” will be the first three songs on the new album.
Vernon and Jim-E Stack produced the album, which was mostly recorded at Vernon’s April Base studio in Wisconsin. The idea for the LP started in early February 2022, when Danielle Haim joined Vernon at the studio. A press release says the album takes lessons from fables and shows the selfless rhythm needed in close relationships—balancing betterness and togetherness.
It has simpler production than previous albums and gets rid of the thick layers of sound that marked Vernon’s earlier works. “SABLE, fABLE” wants to remind listeners of the light at the end of the tunnel and encourages them to keep going through hard times. This album marks a new chapter for Bon Iver and promises a raw and honest canvas laid bare.
