“Yi” is the airy instrumental introduction to Bon Iver’s 4th studio album i,i. The intro has some foreshadowing, using chopped sounds that can be heard in other songs to follow on the album. The song’s title is likely a stylized spelling of the “yeah” vocal sample that starts the album. In his inter...
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Yi was written by Justin Vernon & Trever Hagen & BJ Burton.
Yi was produced by Justin Vernon & Chris Messina & Brad Cook.
The song and its accompanying video were released by Bon Iver exclusively on the r/boniver subreddit on August 8, 2019.
That was a phone recording of me and my friend Trevor screwing around in a barn, turning a radio on and off. We chopped it up for about five years, just a hundred times. There’s something in that ‘Are you recording? Are you recording’ that felt like the spirit that flows into the next song
– Justin...