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8.8
106833
8.8 |
Paste Magazine
There’s unmistakable joy in the music here, a deep care and love for what they were creating and how they got to create it
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8.0
106830
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Crammed with good ideas, innovative sounds and Vernon’s familiar and always fantastic voice
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8.0
106831
8.0 |
The Guardian
A magnificently big-hearted and original seam of songcraft
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7.7
106875
7.7 |
Earbuddy
Songs that initially puzzle but reveal themselves in beautiful ways
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7.5
106818
7.5 |
A.V. Club
With much to toy with, Vernon and Dessner create an unhurried warmth that makes a song like “Forest Green” so moving and gives Big Red Machine the feeling of a soft rainbow light cast from a crystal in the sun
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7.0
106832
7.0 |
All Music
More a headphones-type album than a radio-friendly one, what emerges are still songs before compositions or productions, though they may appeal to the more explorative indie rocker
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7.0
106846
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
Feels like a collection of off-the-cuff experiments between friends
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7.0
106857
7.0 |
Pitchfork
The debut collaboration of Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner is gorgeous and ponderous, a document of a creative process that feels a bit like watching someone get purposefully lost
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6.0
106829
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Shorn of backstory, Big Red Machine sounds like Bon Iver and The National freestyling with friends, drinks and vape pens
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5.0
106834
5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
A crowded and claustrophobic album that gives the sense of having too many cooks
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