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Some new music withTaylor Swiftis on the way!
On Tuesday, Big Red Machine — the powerhouse duo comprising Bon Iver’sJustin Vernon, 40, and The National’s Aaron Dessner, 45 — announced the tracklist of their upcomingHow Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?, which features two tracks withTaylor Swift.
Swift, 31, appears on the duo’s songs “Birch” and “Renegade.” Meanwhile, singer Anaïs Mitchell is featured on “Latter Days,” “Phoenix” with Fleet Foxes and “New Auburn.”
After Swift posted a countdown to Friday on her Instagram Story, many fans speculated that one of the duo’s singles will be a track with Swift.
Dessner and Vernon have a history of making music together. Dessner co-produced and helped write both of her latest albumsfolkloreandevermore. Meanwhile, Vernon and Bon Iver were featured on “Evermore” andfolklore’s “Exile” while Dessner’s the National was featured on “Coney Island.”
In a VevoFootnotesvideo, Swift said working with Dessner was “one of the most effortless collaborations and I’m very lucky to have met him.”
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The new LP is the followup to their first album titledBig Red Machine. They also released “Latter Days” as a single for the new album.
“@anaismitchellhelped define the whole record when she wrote and sang these words, ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?'” Dessner said of the new song. “Latter Days is about childhood and nostalgia for a time before adulthood and loss of innocence — before you’ve made mistakes and lost people.”
The new announcement of music featuring Swift comes just several weeks after she announced that she’ll be releasing the re-recorded version of her Grammy-winning albumRedlater this year.
Here’s the tracklist forHow Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?
01 Latter Days ft. Anaïs Mitchell
02 Reese
03 Phoenix ft. Fleet Foxes and Anaïs Mitchell
04 Birch ft.Taylor Swift
05 Renegade ft.Taylor Swift
06 The Ghost of Cincinnati
07 Hoping Then
08 Mimi ft. Ilsey
09 Easy to Sabotage ft. Naeem
10 Hutch ft. Sharon Van Etten, Lisa Hannigan and My Brightest Diamond
11 8:22am ft. La Force
12 Magnolia
13 June’s a River ft. Ben Howard and This Is The Kit
14 Brycie
15 New Auburn ft. Anaïs Mitchell
source: people.com
