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Every moment of this album is brimming with the care of collaboration. Dessner's drums invigorate every track, while each featured artist brings their own unique energy and soul to take the record in varied, colorful, and exciting. Big Red Machine captures and encourages the joy of making art, the core of experimentation and working together. The moment that epitomizes this project is a line in Mimi (feat. Ilsey), "I say thank you, I say thank you." Gratitude, acceptance, and giving ... read more

Simple, straight country songs with some of the best and most powerful lyrics out there. Every song reads like poetry, so layered and full of allusive meanings, prosaic imagery, and complex emotions.

Great debut, opener/closer much better than the two songs in between, great minimal production... can't wait to hear more!!! Esp the drums at the end left me hanging in the air

I don't think they were really trying to go anywhere with this, just experimenting and having fun with it. Several standout songs ("Gratitude," "Forest Green," and "I Won't Run From It" being my personal faves,) but not really any cohesiveness as an album, which is okay given the nature of the project. It's really cool to see the creative process playing out, and how a lot of the same techniques were carried over to folklore/evermore. I always come back to this not ... read more