Bon Iver's fifth album, SABLE, fABLE, marks his first full-length project in six years. Billed as "Bon Iver's next chapter: the epilogue," it followed a three-song collection that served as a prologue.

Cultural impact

• Bon Iver held outdoor listening events called 'fABLE sPACEs', with one event including a basketball game.

• Frequent collaborator Jim-E Stack lent a hand on each of the tracks' production.

• The album inspired an official Pantone color called 'fABLE Salmon'.

Critical response

• "'SABLE, fABLE is the more daring album in Bon Iver’s catalog' for its decision to 'turn away from the shadows and emerge from his own familiar misery, determined to experience joy, a leap into the unknown,'" Pitchfork noted. Read full review

• Rolling Stone stated that Justin Vernon's first album in six years finds the melancholic indie stalwart at his most hopeful and open, "relenting to lightness." Read full review

• Variety described Sable, Fable as a "stylistically sprawling but surprisingly cohesive album" that "contains nearly all of Bon Iver’s multitudes." Read full review