“Big Red Machine was a decade in the making, starting with the sketch of a song The National’s Aaron Dessner sent Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon for the Dark Was the Night charity compilation. “It almost feels strange to call it an album,” Dessner wrote on the eve of its release. “It’s simply part of a process and part of a community that is growing all the time. It’s part of a friendship and a conversat”
“The debut collaboration of Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner is gorgeous and ponderous, a document of a creative process that feels a bit like watching someone get purposefully lost.”
“Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner launch an artist collective and an exploratory recording project.”
