Bon Iver Duets With Danielle Haim on Swooning, Strange ‘If Only I Could Wait’

Bon Iver is back with two more SABLE, fABLE tracks, "If Only I Could Wait," featuring guest vocals from Danielle Haim, and "Walk Home."

"If Only I Could Wait" is an epic duet that manages to be at once swooning and a little strange as static-y percussion pitter-patters beneath a quintessentially lush Bon Iver assortment of synths, strings, and guitar. "But what a taste/Aw, babe," Justin Vernon and Haim sing together on the song's final chorus, "In every way/Not for the freight/I'll best alone/In high ways."

More from Rolling Stone

• Chappell Roan, Selena Gomez, Haim, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week

• Haim Gets Tangled Up in Self-Sabotage (and Drew Starkey's Arms) in 'Relationships' Video

• See Djo Tackle Haim's 'Gasoline' for Triple J's 'Like a Version'

Per a statement, "If Only I Could Wait" — and Haim's vocals on it — marked a major turning point for Vernon in the making of SABLE, fABLE . In February 2022 (on 2/2/22 to be exact) co-producer Jim-E Stack and Haim arrived at Vernon's April Base studio in Wisconsin, and after several days of recording, Haim jumped on "If Only I Could Wait," giving it the crucial extra perspective that it needed.

Vernon called the song, "A duet. A bilateral crying question. How long can the two of us hang on to each other?"

As for "Walk Home," it's a much funkier and sultry tune, with Vernon calling it "a romp where you can't wait to pull your clothes off fast enough and jump inside bed with your one true lover." 

"If Only I Could Wait" and "Walk Home" follow SABLE, fABLE 's previously-released single, "Everything Is Peaceful Love," which arrived last month with a music video directed by John Wilson. SABLE, fABLE is set to arrive April 11, marking Bon Iver's first full-length album since 2019's I, I .

Last year, Bon Iver previewed half of the LP with the Sable EP , with all four tracks from that project appearing on disc one of the full album. "If SABLE , was the prologue, then fABLE is the book — but together, SABLE, fABLE is the album, and for that reason it is no fairy tale," Vernon previously said. "There may be something undeniably healing about infatuation, and the intense clarity, focus, honesty and celebration it brings to these songs."

Best of Rolling Stone

• The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs

• All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked

• The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Sign up for RollingStone's Newsletter . For the latest news, follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .