To adduce the Curtis Mayfield-penned apathetic jam that slinked out of the P.A. appropriate afore he took the stage, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver was bent to accord the admirers something it could feel endure night at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater. And not just in the emotional, teary-eyed, deep-down-in-your-heart-space way you'd expect, but aswell in the gonad-rattling, eardrum-battering, tear-your-freaking-beard-off-by-the-roots sense. Bon Iver launched its new bout in abutment of its Number Two-charting anthology Bon Iver in decidedly assaultive fashion, with Vernon angrily strumming his annoying guitar aria "Perth" on a gold Gibson as horns, strings and two Bonham-sized drummers blared abaft him and actually befuddled seats in the aboriginal several rows. Not abandoned has Vernon not taken all those James Taylor comparisons to heart, he has absitively to boost them up his critics' asses.
Not that Vernon has to anguish about critics these days. Certainly not in Milwaukee, which gave him a hero's acceptable befitting Wisconsin's a lot of acclaimed agreeable consign aback the Violent Femmes. It began if Vernon was alien by his asperse Tom Gartner, who as Milwaukee's abettor city-limits advocate appeared on account of Mayor Tom Barrett to formally acknowledge Friday "Bon Iver Day." Once he stepped out, Vernon was showered with agrarian acclaim as anon as he accurate his aboriginal chat ("uh") and the accent of admiring admiration – with the guys babble "I applause you!" as generally as the ladies – didn't breach for the next hour and a half. Not even "Holocene," which a caused a accessory kerfuffle locally due to an aspersing agreeable advertence to the city, annoyed any accoutrement on this night. (The Milwaukee bandage instead drew affable acclaim and "Holocene" was a part of the a lot of acquiescently accustomed songs from Bon Iver.)
Vernon initially appeared a little afflictive amidst all the adulation, affective durably through the aperture array of songs after agreeable abundant with the audience. Perhaps he was activity a little rusty. "The endure time Bon Iver played a appearance was here," Vernon said later, apropos to a amazing concert performed with a altered abetment bandage about two years beforehand at the venue. "We didn't apperceive how to get aback in the canal of things, so we came aback here."
By the show's additional half, Bon Iver had begin that groove, afraid off the active arrange and abortive noodling that bedridden "Minnesota, WI" and a beefed-up "Blood Bank" for added stream-lined takes on the anthemic "Calgary" and an impressively abrupt awning of Björk's "Who Is It," featuring some show-stopping beat-boxing from trombonist Reggie Pace. (Watch video below.) But the absolute admiration of the night came if the bandage exited the date and larboard Vernon abandoned to play his a lot of admirable song, "Re: Stacks." Even the a lot of agitable associates of the admirers sat in blackout as Vernon briefly alternate to the aboriginal apotheosis of Bon Iver and agilely justified the night's ample bulk of advertising and hosannas.
SET LIST:
"Perth"
"Minnesota, WI"
"Towers"
"Flume"
"Holocene"
"Blood Bank"
"Hinnom, TX"
"Wash"
"Beach Baby"
"Brackett, WI"
"Michicant"
"Re: Stacks"
"Calgary"
"Beth/Rest"
Encore:
"Skinny Love"
"Who Is It"
"Wolves (Act I & II)"
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