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Justin Vernon And The Dessner Brothers Have A New Band — And A New Way To Listen

Hear four songs by Big Red Machine, which blends Vernon's oblique and poetic words with a busy collage of sounds. Then get lost in a rabbit hole of never-before-heard music.
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon has teamed up with Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National to form a new band (Big Red Machine) and an artists' collective called PEOPLE.

may take its time between albums, but bandleader Justin Vernon remains a geyser of ideas in his off hours. He and a pair of fellow idea-geysers — 's Aaron and Bryce Dessner — haven't just launched, and populated it with a trove of music.

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