In this story
Evermore begins with willow’s circling attraction, then settles at the piano for a proposal that has gone wrong. The contrast announces an album interested in what people bring to an encounter and what they cannot make the other person accept. Desire is only one part of the story; a setting, an expectation and an audience can matter just as much.
The original fifteen-song record arrived on December 11, 2020, less than five months after folklore. Its shared collaborators and close arrangements connect the two albums, but evermore is full of its own distinctive situations. Returning to an old hometown and living within a quietly unequal relationship produce different dramas from the summer triangle in folklore. [1]
Listen to the album
Listen to evermore. The tracklist below follows the original 15-song core; streaming platforms may also offer expanded editions.
Tracklist [1]
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willow3:34 Listen ↗
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A circling attraction opens the record with motion and mystery. The hook makes following another person feel like entering an unfolding path.
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champagne problems4:04 Listen ↗
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A rejected proposal acquires weight through the expectations surrounding it. Piano and patient storytelling keep the occasion’s uncomfortable aftermath in view.
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gold rush3:05 Listen ↗
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An attractive person becomes a problem of imagination and competition. The shimmering rush suggests how quickly desire can elaborate a scene.
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'tis the damn season3:49 Listen ↗
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A hometown return brings an old relationship briefly back within reach. The seasonal setting makes temporary availability part of the emotional arrangement.
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tolerate it4:05 Listen ↗
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Care is offered into an unequal domestic space. The narrator’s attention to small acts makes the absent response feel increasingly consequential.
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no body, no crime (feat. HAIM)3:35 Listen ↗
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Suspicion develops into a revenge narrative. HAIM’s presence contributes to a song that enjoys the machinery of a compact crime story.
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happiness5:15 Listen ↗
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A relationship’s ending is assessed without denying its earlier value. The slow argument allows more than one emotional truth to remain present.
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dorothea3:45 Listen ↗
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The voice addresses someone who has left for a larger world. Familiarity and distance give the imagined return a tender, questioning tone.
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coney island (feat. The National)4:35 Listen ↗
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Two voices revisit what they failed to notice or protect. The National’s contribution makes missed connection audible as an exchange.
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ivy4:20 Listen ↗
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An attachment takes root in a situation already constrained by other commitments. The imagery lets growth and risk occupy the same scene.
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cowboy like me4:35 Listen ↗
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Two experienced performers recognize a possible connection in each other. The measured arrangement keeps trust from arriving too easily.
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long story short3:35 Listen ↗
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A brisk retrospective changes the pressure of an old struggle. The narrator can describe a difficult passage from somewhere beyond its immediate confusion.
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marjorie4:17 Listen ↗
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A remembered loved one’s advice becomes inseparable from the wish for more time. The track lets inheritance and loss remain close together.
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closure3:00 Listen ↗
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An offered resolution is considered against what the speaker actually needs. The unsettled textures suit an encounter that resists a smooth ending.
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evermore (feat. Bon Iver)5:04 Listen ↗
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The final duet lets a seemingly permanent mood begin to change. Its shift gives the standard album an opening beyond the feeling it first inhabits.
A room can tell you who has the power
Champagne problems makes the surrounding expectations part of the failed proposal. Tolerate it turns attention toward a domestic imbalance, where preparation and care do not produce the response the narrator needs. Each song lets the shape of an occasion reveal an uneven relationship.
Happiness offers a harder assessment than simply identifying a villain. The voice tries to hold a relationship’s value and its ending in the same picture. That gives the album a patient emotional intelligence: recognizing damage does not require pretending that no pleasure or meaning ever existed.
No body, no crime takes the record into a more overt narrative genre. Its suspicion, disappearance and revenge supply another form of power, considerably more decisive than the emotionally unresolved rooms around it. The shift is entertaining partly because the album allows such a sharp change in storytelling method. [1]
The last songs change what can be carried forward
Cowboy like me places two practiced outsiders in a relationship neither can reduce to a simple transaction. Their familiarity with performance complicates the possibility of trust. The song’s measured pace lets attraction grow within the characters’ knowledge of how appearances can be used.
Marjorie makes remembered instruction and the wish for more time coexist. Closure then refuses a form of contact that cannot simply undo the past. The title track closes by allowing a seemingly permanent feeling to change, giving the final duet a movement toward possibility rather than a complete erasure of difficulty.
The standard sequence ends there. Right where you left me and it’s time to go belong to the seventeen-track deluxe edition. Their contrast is worth hearing afterward: one imagines being stranded in a moment, the other considers leaving. Start the core album with champagne problems, tolerate it and evermore, then discover the very different voices that connect those three settings. [1]