Bon Iver, the primary project of frontman Justin Vernon, has made waves across the entire music industry, collaborating with the likes of Taylor Swift, all the way to Kanye West. They have an undeniable strength in folk-style ballads, with one of their biggest hits, “Skinny Love” breaking hearts since 2008. Since then, they have experimented more with ingenuitive approaches to synthesis in their arrangements, with 2016’s 22, A Million gaining a 9.0 from Pitchfork. Their victory in indie folk and demonstrable courage in genre malleability, whilst maintaining authenticity, is the encouragement that this hot new artist was inspired to put his amazing, heartfelt tracks out there.