
Big Red Machine share new single 'Phoenix'
It sees them join forces with Fleet Foxes and Anaïs Mitchell.
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A collaboration between Big Red Machine's Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon with Taylor Swift, 'Birch' unfolds as a conversation between two voices negotiating presence and departure. Vernon's lyrics trace a shift in waking, a movement from old patterns of choking into something uncertain, whilst the chorus poses questions of staying and leaving with a kind of gentle insistence. Swift enters the exchange, and together they circle around shared needs and the possibility of depletion or fullness, the song's emotional weight settling on the final admission that some connections simply do not align. The track builds its intimacy through restraint. Verses give way to a chorus that asks rather than declares, the melody moving with the careful pacing of two people trying to understand each other. There is no resolution here, only the recognition that waking differently does not guarantee ease, and that knowing what is good does not always mean you can stay.
"Birch" is a track by Big Red Machine, from the album How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?, released 27th August 2021. Full lyrics are available below.
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