Credits:

Big Red Machine

Description:

Big Red Machine, the project of Aaron Dessner (The National) and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), has released its second album, "How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? was released. The album includes the single "Renegade" featuring Taylor Swift. Aaron Dessner learned to play a variety of instruments as a child in a suburban Cincinnati basement with his brother Bryce, and has always pursued emotional outlets and deep relationships through his music. A key songwriter for The National, founder of various festivals, and collaborator on two Taylor Swift albums recorded at his Long Pond studio in New York ・・・・・・, through these activities, Dessner has created a musician like no other community of musicians. His abundant spirit and desire to "move the music forward" can be heard most profoundly on Big Red Machine's second album, How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? and can be felt most deeply in "How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? Big Red Machine, which Dessner says started out as something they enjoyed, released their self-titled debut album in 2018. The album, which Dessner calls "structured experimentalism," evolved from improvisation and focused on creating tracks that work well live.When Vernon visited Long Pond in 2019, the new Big Red Machine material began to take shape. Songs like "Reese," "8:22am," and "Latter Days" were written in the first week, and the loss of childhood innocence and nostalgia sung on "Latter Days" became the defining theme for the entire album. In the months that followed, the two met and worked on the project whenever possible. In the early days of Pandemic, Taylor Swift approached Desner, and the two began a collaboration that would later become "Folklore" and "Evermore". During this period, which he describes as a "creative blur," Dessner was simultaneously working on Taylor Swift and Big Red Machine. The album's title, "How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? was given by Taylor Swift. She summed up the album's theme intuitively. A year ago, we hadn't even worked together. It's really cool to see the community continue to grow and everyone who contributed to the album connect naturally with the emotion at the heart of the music," says Dessner. In addition to Taylor Swift, this album features Anais Mitchell, Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Illzy, Naeem, Sharon Van Etten, Lisa Hannigan, Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond), La Force, Ben Howard, and Dis is the Kit, and others have participated as guests.