But i also felt same about Animal Collective if that's any help

like a grumpy old man, but how much longer would it have taken you to type 'anyone' rather than 'any1'?

but I don't know if I'm in the minority or not

...when it dawned on me that despite all the stuff about log cabins and so on, the sound of the actual record had absolutely no room ambience at all

you just don't like him. That's ok.

all this beardy, log cabinesque, banjo laden gubbins. A musical partnership I had essentially ended when one half grew aforementioned beard and decided electronica wasn't for him anymore in favour of Bon Iver, Mumford, Iron and Wine etc.
The last straw was when he wanted to cover an Iron and Wine song, some dreadful dirge about stillborn puppies or some such. We're still good pals but musical differences persist....we bond over Animal Collective who managed a superb mash up of the technology and the campfire rusticity

But I never liked Big Audio Dynamite.

..rock hacks love this sort of guff.
It can't have been the songs.
"Flume" is one of the poorest excuses for a tune I've ever heard.

this thread has been a bit on the anti-side so far, so let me just say:

a) The whole log cabin thing was, in my opinion, completely overblown by the press. So what if the man needs a bit of peace and quiet to make his music?
b) If you approach it with an open mind (i.e. without the log cabin rubbish), the music is genuinely good. He's a got a lovely voice that works in the same way as Thom Yorke's does, or that guy from Sigur Ros - not a deliverer of lyrics, but as an instrument.
c) Justin Vernon has followed, particularly with this album and the stuff he did as Volcano Choir, a similar path to Sam Beam from Iron & Wine: starting out with a beard and an acoustic guitar, but gradually becoming confident enough to incorporate new sounds. If you had heard the synth-laden closer to this album ('Beth Rest'), you would not feel the need to compare him with Fleet Foxes, or other beard-donning crooners. It's not really similar, at least not anymore.

That is all.

Shouldn't it be "Bon Iver: Are *they* rubbish"?