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Youve most definitely heard Dessners production work elsewhere, as on Taylor Swifts pandemic albums,evermoreandfolklore.
The new Big Red Machine releasecelebrates the fruits of creative partnership and the importance of family and community.
At least, thats what we took from our conversation with Dessner.
Im such a born collaborator, he said.
Then you work on it and send it again.
I like this handoff, this communal approach to music-making.
And its hard to do, even if youve done it a million times like I have.
Part of being an artist is not being paralyzed by insecurity or self-doubt and allowing yourself to be vulnerable.