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Aug 31, 2018 Big Red Machine By Christopher Roberts

Big Red Machine is a new collaboration between Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon and The National‘s Aaron Dessner. Today they have released their self-titled debut album via their PEOPLE digital platform, but also on other streaming services, vinyl, cassette, and CD via Jagjaguwar. They have now shared three videos for songs from the album: “Gratitude,” “Forest Green,” and “I Won’t Run From It.” Eric Timothy Carlson and Aaron Anderson directed all three colorful videos, which can be watched below. You can also stream the whole album below.

Vernon and Dessner produced the album with Brad Cook, and it was recorded and mixed by Jonathan Low at Dessner’s Long Pond studio in Upper Hudson Valley, NY. Big Red Machine had previously shared six songs from the album: “Forest Green,” “Lyla,” “Gratitude,” “Hymnostic,” “Deep Green,” and “I Won’t Run From It.”

Dessner had this to say about the album in a previous press release: “I don’t think the record would exist without the community that came together to make it. We took the music to a certain point, and then we reached out and sent it far and wide, inviting friends to contribute any and all ideas. We’ve viewed the record and the process from a community standpoint. We’re incredibly excited about it, as excited as we would be for any album we might make in another situation that’s more conventional. But this feels like something new-the process felt different and the outcome felt different.”

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