Big Red Machine, the joint venture between Aaron Dessner of National and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, stopped on the episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. They played their recently released song “Phoenix” while on the air and shared a performance of another new song called “New Auburn”. Anaïs Mitchell and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold joined the band for both of them, check out everything below.
Big Red Machine released their self-titled debut in 2018. Earlier this year they announced its successor titled How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? The new album will be released on August 27 via Jagjaguwar / 37d03d and includes collaborations with Taylor Swift (who worked with both Dessner and Vernon on their last two albums), Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Sharon Van Etten, and others.
Since announcing their upcoming LP, Big Red Machine have shared three singles: “The Ghost of Cincinnati”, “Renegade” [Ft. Taylor Swift], and “Phoenix” [Ft. Fleet Foxes and Anaïs Mitchell].
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