With a brake-torque launch from 2,200 rpm, the new Armada pulls away quickly but not overly strong, and the 6,106-pound beast stopped in just 112 feet.

Last fall, after a five-year-long break from any new Bon Iver projects, Vernon dropped a triptych of songs. Named for a word used to describe pitch blackness, Vernon’s EP SABLE found him in the middle ...