Bryce Dessner

A movie I'll probably never rewatch, but uh, really fucked me up when I watched it.

Um, and again, I, I think, I think Bri- um, I think Bryce Dessner has just become...

I know we're not, like talking the details of the movie, but I think Bryce Dessner is, like right there as just one of the best working composers, uh, today.

He, he recently just did the, um, Love Story, the, the JFK Caroline Bessette thing, and I fucking loved it.

He did Train Dreams, Sing Sing, um, Come On, Come On.

I'm your host, Kristin Robinson, and I'm thrilled to welcome Aaron Dessner to the show.

As I already noted, Dessner has made his name first in The National, an indie rock band that he shares with his twin brother Bryce Dessner, among others.

The group emerged from the Brooklyn scene in the early 2000s and have been putting out critically acclaimed projects ever since, notching four top five albums on the Billboard 200 in the process, including my personal favorite, Trouble Will Find Me from 2013.

From there, Aaron expanded into film composition, including his score for A24 films like Come On, Come On.

When you were kids, was that always the, like, "We're gonna stick together and make music together," or did you ever have those moments as a twin where you're like, "I need to do my own thing"?

We were- we shared a room until we were 18 and went to college, and pretty much did everything together, like, same, played all the same sports and played music at the same time.

And so at some point he w- Bryce was more geared towards, like, his brain just gravitated towards notation and-

Hmm

So how does this journey start? Like, who, who-

I mean, I think it's, it starts, um, I have a twin brother, and we were born in Cincinnati in the mid-'70s, and just did every- like, shared a room until we were 18.

Bryce Dessner is his name.

And my dad was a drummer, and we found his drums in the furnace closet-