Big Red Machine by Graham Tolbert
Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon are releasing their second Big Red Machine album on August 27th.
Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon have shared one of the collaborations with Taylor Swift which will feature on their upcoming Big Red Machine record How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?.
Renegade, which is streaming now, and Birch both see Dessner and Swift resuming the extremely productive partnership which resulted in most of last year’s ‘folklore’ LP, an album which Vernon also guested on.
“Most of its sixteen songs were produced in collaboration (but remotely) with The National’s Aaron Dessner and are woven, piano heavy and calmly understated, whilst the craggiest it gets is ‘exile’, an austere, emotionally charged duet with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon,” our review reads.
“With repeated listening all is not quite as cabin-in-the-woods as it seems though. Swift’s ability to sketch all-American love within the frame of innocence remains second to none (‘cardigan’, the frankly gorgeous, banjo picked ‘invisible string’), but suburbia glints; the pulsing ‘my tears ricochet’ and ‘august’ both underlining an effortless gift for sophisticated contemporary pop which neither lockdown nor inner peace can dull.”
