Grammy award-winning indie band Bon Iver may be no more.


The Justin Vernon-led group released its first studio album, "For Emma, Forever Ago," in 2008. In the years since, Bon Iver dropped the EP "Blood Bank" in 2009 and a sophomore studio album, "Bon Iver, Bon Iver," in 2011. The band took home the Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album in 2012, also hitting No. 2 on the Billboard 200.


Now, music industry veteran Vernon says Bon Iver's second album may be its last.


"I don't really write songs anymore," Vernon said in a recent interview with Australian Radio Station Triple J. "The last Bon Iver record was a very 'sitting down with a guitar and writing' kind of record. I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there."


Vernon, who was recently featured on Kanye West's "Yeezus" album, went on to add, "I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature. All of the music I've been making shifting away from Bon Iver feels really good."


This isn't the first time that Vernon has hinted at Bon Iver's disbandment. Late last year he spoke of ending the band while he was still happy with the music, saying, "I really feel the need to walk away from it while I still care about it."



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  • Bon Iver - Holocene (Official Music Video)


    Director: NABIL (NABIL.com) Producer: Jill Hammer Production Company: NE Direction Editor: Isaac Hagy DOP: Larkin Sieple boniver.org jagjaguwar.com




  • "Come Talk to Me" - Bon Iver


    Bon Iver's cover of "Come Talk to Me" by Peter Gabriel. Property of EMI (but please, please leave it up - this song is so good I've got to share it).




  • Bon Iver - Skinny Love (Music Video)


    Bon Iver - "Skinny Love" Footage from "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" Video by Kat Clark katclark.org Lyrics Come on skinny love just last the year Pour a little salt we were never here My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer I tell my love to wreck it all Cut out all the ropes and let me fall My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Right in the moment this order's tall And I told you to be patient And I told you to be fine And I told you to be balanced And I told you to be kind And in the morning I'll be with you But it will be a different kind And I'll be holding all the tickets And you'll be owning all the fines Come on skinny love, what happened here? Suckle on the hope in light brassieres My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Sullen load is full, so slow on the split And I told you to be patient And I told you to be fine And I told you to be balanced And I told you to be kind And now all your love is wasted And then who the hell was I? And I'm breaking at the britches And at the end of all your lines Who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall far behind?




  • Bon Iver - Calgary (Official Music Video)


    Written by Justin Vernon with Andre Durand and Dan Huiting Director: Andre Durand and Dan Huiting Producer: Daniel Cummings DOP: Andre Durand Editor: Bill Rammer FX/Post: Bill Rammer/Pixel Farm Color: Josh Allard boniver.org jagjaguwar.com




  • Bon Iver - Towers (Official Music Video)


    Director: NABIL (NABIL.com) Producer: Kathleen Heffernan DOP: Larkin Sieple Editor: Isaac Hagy FX/Post: andeffects.com Color: Brandon Chavez Production Company: NE Direction boniver.org jagjaguwar.com




  • Bon Iver - Blindsided


    Fan video from the album "For Emma, Forever Ago" www.ondarock.it




  • Bon Iver - Woods (studio version)


    The studio version of Woods, from Bon Iver's upcoming EP Blood Bank. One of the coolest songs ever. I put a bunch of pics from various backpacking trips over the song. I have the whole EP, I'll post more songs when I have the time so subscribe if you want to check it out! I'm up in the woods I'm down on my mind I'm building a still To slow down the time




  • Bon Iver - Blood Bank (studio version)


    The studio version of Bon Iver's title track from his EP Blood Bank, out January 20. It's very, very cool. I just put some random photos over it, the sound is what really matters!




  • Bon Iver - Perth


    Check out my music and like me on FACEBOOK www.facebook.com FACEBOOK - www.facebook.com I'm tearing up, acrost your face Move dust through the light To fide your name It's something fane This is not a place Not yet awake, I'm raised of make Still alive who you love Still alive who you love Still alive who you love In a mother, out a moth Furling forests for the soft Gotta know been lead aloft So I'm ridding all your stories What I know, what it is, is pouring -- wire it up! You're breaking your ground




  • Bon Iver - for Emma


    from the "Bon Iver: for Emma, forever ago"




  • Bon Iver -- Flume (Live on 89.3 The Current)


    Bon Iver performs the song Flume from his album For Emma, Forever Ago live in the studios of 89.3 The Current. minnesota.publicradio.org Connect with The Current: TheCurrent.org youtube.com twitter.com facebook.com Become a member: contribute.publicradio.org




  • Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me / Nick of Time


    Bon Iver performing a cover of I Can't Make You Love Me / Nick of Time in the studio. **No copyright intended**