Justin Vernon makes very strange songs, there is no doubt about that. However, "Love More" is a level apart from "For Emma" or "Skinny Love." Though I greatly value well-written poetry, the musical composition of this song is extraordinary. The song sounds like a consonance of the calling of the forest and ice. It is both a psychedelic and a surreal experience, perhaps symbolizing the ultimatum of life entirely.
The lyrics of this song are fairly simple, considering Vernon has penned down songs like "Flume" and "Roslyn."
Justin Vernon happens to be one of those musicians I could never get tired of listening to. I could continue listening to him at the times when the world seems as if it is about to collapse. The kind of crude emotions he puts into his performances is resemblant to both the quality and method of executing his songs.
This particular track was performed live. The Bon Iver and Sharon Van Ettan version has done more than justice to the entire composition. I can not recall the last time I saw a woman that involved during a performance. Singing this certain track brought something else into her. With her almost tear-filled eyes, the amazing fluidity Sharon Van Ettan reflected into the performance is breathtaking and not something you come across often in times of music-less rhythm.
"Love More" is a gem of a song in all its entirety. It is an experience, more than a song, more than poetry. More than the aura and the shadow of itself. It is still amusing me as to how a song as simple as this can transcend your entire mindscape to a whole new version of reality altogether. Beyond other things, it sounds like an all-encompassing call, from a distance you can not decode, like the sound of music underwater or from spaces we have never visited and never will.
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