Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon & Jim-E Stack Talk Creating ‘Day One’ With Dijon & Flock of Dimes | Billboard

Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Jim-E Stack share how they created each track on new album SABLE, fABLE.

Justin Vernon: This is another good example of just, like, I didn’t make, I didn’t write any scores or anything. This just came straight from a sample from Sam, and somewhat unchanged, although it took us two years to figure out how to supply the oxygen and, like, put support it with all the things totally. But then again, it’s, like, as soon as I got that demo sent to me, I just knew the melody, yeah, it was just there. You know, it’s Dijon wise.

Jim-E Stack: Yeah, had to get, had to get the homies on there, but up into this point, I don’t know if we added much.

Justin Vernon: I think some of this stuff was layered, yeah, and I remember we did actually, I think we transcribed the chords a bit, and I put them on some like, MIDI keyboards and stuff, just yeah, like, give it more weight. 

Jim-E Stack: Yeah, one of the more successful, creatively successful songs, I think, totally, and that’s just so fun, classic Jimmy drums that no two and four yet, it’s just blew my mind.

Justin Vernon: It was funny. I remember doing that because I had the session and stuff in LA, and was like working on the drums. And it was like pouring over these, like, really, you know, like, tasteful, whatever f–king drums. It was just like, not it. 

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