Bon Iver have announced plans to release a new ‘Volumes’ archive series with a live album.
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Titled ‘Volumes’, the new archival series will feature live shows, demos, unreleased recordings and other previously unheard material from the group. It is set to be released on April 3 via Jagjaguwar.
The first instalment will be called ‘Volumes: One “Selections From Music Concerts 2019-2023 Bon Iver 6 Piece Band”’, and will bring together 10 performances that capture Bon Iver at its wildest.
Describing what this first part of the series is like, Justin Vernon said: “This particular set of 10 songs is like, ‘Here, if you’ve never heard Bon Iver, or you have and you didn’t like it, this might be for you.’ This is what we became. This is really us at our best. This is it.”
Vernon began work on the first part of ‘Volumes’ back in 2020, combing through dozens of hours of live recordings to assemble the ultimate tracklist.
Check out the first taster of the project in the form of the live track, ‘Heavenly Father – Mediolanum, Milan, It. Nov 05 2022’ below.
The first part of the ‘Volumes’ archival series will mark Bon Iver’s first non-studio album, and looks to capture bandmates Andrew Fitzpatrick, Jenn Wasner, Justin Vernon, Matthew McCaughan, Michael Lewis and Sean Carey, as they deliver the defining versions of these songs for dans.
Part one was all mainly between 2019 and 2023, the same period when Bon Iver would perform its last live concert to date. It includes music from 2016’s ‘22, A Million’ and 2019’s ‘i,i,’.
The idea for the series of the releases is modelled after Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series and the Neil Young Archives. Check out the tracklist for Part One below, and visit here to pre-order.
‘VOLUMES: ONE SELECTIONS FROM MUSIC CONCERTS 2019-2023 BON IVER 6 PIECE BAND’. CREDIT: Press
The ‘Volumes: One’ tracklist is:
‘INTRO – The Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Sep 15 2019’
‘MAN LIKE U – The Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Sep 15 2019’
‘WE (feat. Bizhiki) – Xcel Energy Center, St Paul, MN. Oct 03 2019’
‘JELMORE – Tennis Indoor Senayan, Jakarta, ID. Jan 19 2020’
‘666 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving, TX. Apr 03 2022’
‘HEAVENLY FATHER – Mediolanum, Milan, IT. Nov 05 2022’
‘P.D.L.I.F. – Red Hill Auditorium, Perth, AU. Feb 26 2023’
‘HEY, MA – Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL. July 23 2023’
‘A SATISFIED MIND – State Theatre, Portland, ME. Dec 08 2017’
‘33 “GOD” – WOMADelaide Festival, Adelaide, AU. Mar 10 2023’
‘Sh’DIAH (boardmix) – Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, CA. Oct 06 2019’
News of the new project from Bon Iver comes as the band teamed up with Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner at the end of 2025 for a new charity single to honour gun violence victims.
Titled ‘Sold Out’, it arrived in the wake of the shooting at Brown University, which left two students dead and nine others injured. The song was recorded in 2024, following a different mass shooting. The song is available exclusively on Bandcamp here, with proceeds going towards gun control advocacy group Everytown.
Bon Iver’s fifth record, ‘SABLE, fABLE’, was released in April 2025 via Jagjaguwar, and went on to pick up a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album.
Bon Iver. Photo Credit: Graham Tolbert
In a four-star review of that release, NME commended the album, which was feared to be the departure of the Bon Iver project, as a “rebirth”.
“Though this is not Bon Iver’s answer to ‘Brat’ summer by any stretch of the imagination, many of these same existential questions also linger on ‘SABLE, fABLE’ – a record that grapples with his own identity as much as it does the twists and turns of life,” it read. “Though some fans feared this might well be an epilogue to the Bon Iver project, it comes across as more of a rebirth.”
Since then, Vernon said he would be “very surprised” if he ever makes another full-length album after ‘SABLE, fABLE’.
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