"[2] Throughout the recording process, the band embraced sampling and effects, with guitarist Chris Rosenau stating, "We're not just sitting down at a piano and putting chords together.

Chris Rosenau noted, "[Justin] basically sang on fully fleshed-out songs, but we got to be there and bounce ideas off each other and laugh and cry and all this shit while he was doing these bananas vocal things that no one had ever heard before!

'"[1] The track "Alaskans", features a sample of poet and novelist Charles Bukowski reading a poem for a French television programme.

Regarding its inclusion, vocalist Justin Vernon stated, "The poem starts out with him talking about showering with this woman and washing his ballsack -- all this crude Bukowskian stuff -- but by the end he's extremely drunk and crying and he can’t get through it.

"[2] Regarding the album's second track, "Acetate", Vernon noted, "[The song] is coming back to myself and saying, “Life is too short, and love is beautiful and it ends and there are much deeper and more complex things to be concerned about.” That's just where I'm at these days.

[3] Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media gave the album a positive review, stating, "All songs on Repave begin quietly and almost none stay that way for long, so when those crescendos hit, you’re supposed to envision waves crashing on cold, barren outcroppings, white mist spraying as seabirds take majestic flight."

At Alternative Press, Brian Shultz told that "Its songs seem somewhat aimless at times, but Repave is worth the journey for its driving, rhythmic consistency and moments of hook-laden greatness.

"[5] Stereogum ranked Repave at number eleven on their "The 50 Best Albums of 2013" list, stating: "Repave, Justin Vernon's second full-length alongside Wisconsin widescreen rockers Collections of Colonies of Bees, is every bit the big-skied wilderness Bon Iver, Bon Iver was, and it sometimes approaches the beating-heart intimacy of For Emma, Forever Ago".