With almost a week to go until his album's release, Bon Iver has released an official video for the album's first single "Calgary". The video begins simple, with large blocks of ice and snow floating in a water before the camera pans out to reveal a bed that sort of gives birth to a woman. First she appears as a image on it (Not unlike a Japanese body pillow) before she is pushed out and becomes corporeal. That pretty much sets the stage for the rest of the video which has her traveling through a swampy area before eventually meeting up with other people who no doubt went to the same trials she did.
The video is artsy and imaginative, without being pretentious. Sure, it's cryptic but the plot is actually rather easy to follow despite the elusiveness of it's meaning. It's a pretty cool way to feature the song. Not bad, Justin Vernon, not bad. Watch the new video for "Calgary":
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