Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? 2LP (Opaque Red Vinyl)

  Second Album from Aaron Dessner/Justin Vernon Project Is a 2LP Set featuring Taylor Swift, Sharon Van Etten & Robin Pecknold Among Others! The generous spirit and desire to push music forward has never been more deeply felt than on Big Red Machine's How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?, the second album from Aaron Dessner's ever-morphing project with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon. In 2008, while assembling material for the charity compilation Dark Was the Night, Dessner sent Vernon a song sketch titled "big red machine". Vernon interpreted "big red machine" as a beating heart and finished the song accordingly - a metaphor Dessner says "still sticks with me today. This project goes to many places and is always on some level about experimentation, but it shines a light on why I make music in the first place, which is an emotional need. It's one of my therapies and one of the ways I interrogate the past." Collaborators and friends show up across the album, continuing the reciprocal