Walk Home

Album: Sable, Fable (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Walk Home" is about the urgency and passion of a new love. It's breathless, urgent, and deeply preoccupied with the kind of romance that makes you forget to pay your phone bill. Bon Iver recorded the track for Sable, Fable, an album that sees them shift from their usual brooding introspection to something more jubilant.
  • "Walk Home" follows "Everything Is Peaceful Love" on the tracklist, a song in which Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon is positively giddy over a new romance. "Walk Home" cranks up the intensity, zeroing in on sex and desire. As Vernon himself puts it: "'Walk Home' is a romp where you can't wait to pull your clothes off fast enough and jump inside bed with your one true lover."

    It's not a subtle sentiment, but then again, neither is passion.
  • Musically, the song is lush and layered. Vernon produced it with Jim-E Stack, who previously worked on Bon Iver's 2020 singles "PDLIF" and "AUATC."
  • The musicians are

    Justin Vernon vocals, sampler, bass, synthesizer
    Jim-E Stack: drums, sampler
    Rob Moose: strings arranger, viola, violin
    Eli Teplin: Rhodes piano
    Jenn Wasner: synthesizer, vocals

    Rob Moose is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer who has been collaborating with Bon Iver since 2010. He has contributed to all of Bon Iver's albums since then, playing violin and viola and writing string and horn arrangements.

    Eli Teplin is a frequent collaborator with Bon Iver and has contributed to their recent work, including playing synthesizer on the Sable EP released in 2024.

    Jenn Wasner is a musician known for her work with the band Wye Oak and her solo project Flock of Dimes. She joined Bon Iver as a guitarist in 2019 and continued to perform with the band.

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