Bon Iver principal member Justin Vernon has seemed to hint the end could be nigh for the band following the release of their eponymous second album in 2011.
As promotional duties for that record wound down earlier this year, Vernon told USA Today it could be five years before another studio LP emerges, but in telling 89.3 The Current this week that he may not come back to Bon Iver at all, it appears those five years could turn into a lifetime.
“I really feel the need to walk away from it while I still care about it,” he said of the band. “And then if I come back to it – if at all – I’ll feel better about it and be renewed or something to do that.”
“I look at it like a faucet. I have to turn it off and walk away from it because so much of how that music comes together is subconscious or discovering. There’s so much attention on the band, it can be distracting at times.”