Latest Release
- SEP 13, 2023
- 2 Songs
- Vampire Empire / Born For Loving You - Single · 2023
- Masterpiece · 2016
- Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You · 2022
- Capacity · 2017
- Capacity · 2017
- Masterpiece · 2016
- Capacity · 2017
- Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You · 2021
- Two Hands · 2019
- Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You · 2021
Essential Albums
- Like its title suggests, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You continues Big Thief’s shift away from their tense, early music toward something folkier and more cosmically inviting. They’ve always had an interest in Americana, but their touchpoints are warmer now: A sweetly sawing fiddle (“Spud Infinity”), a front-porch lullaby (“Dried Roses”), the wonder of a walk in the woods (“Promise Is a Pendulum”) or comfort of a kitchen where the radio’s on and food sizzles in the pan (“Red Moon”). Adrianne Lenker’s voice still conveys a natural reticence—she doesn’t want to believe it’s all as beautiful as it is—but she’s also too earnest to deny beauty when she sees it.
- In the wake of their arresting debut album, Big Thief find further beauty in ever harsher realities on Capacity. It's bound together by singer/songwriter Adrianne Lenker, who’s achingly fragile and coldly confident within the same song, as she shares vivid, intimate details of kisses, crashes, and a long-lost brother. Stark acoustic numbers like "Pretty Things" and "Coma" glow with a warm, vintage sheen, making them timeless, while expansive heartland rocker "Shark Smile" gives Lenker's wraith-like presence room to truly soar.
Albums
Artist Playlists
- Intimate indie-folk tales delivered straight to the gut.
Singles & EPs
More To Hear
- The band talks about their fourth studio album, Two Hands.
- Sounds from Vampire Weekend, Amber Mark, and Ezra Collective.
- The Toronto artist guests in the studio.
About Big Thief
Brooklyn-based quartet Big Thief was among the most acclaimed indie rock bands of the turn of the 2020s, with a malleable style centered on the mystic, emotionally unsparing songwriting of lead singer and guitarist Adrianne Lenker. The group arose from a folk-duo collaboration between Lenker and guitarist and co-writer Buck Meek. The band’s first release, 2016’s Masterpiece, showcased a full-scale rock unit, building toward climaxes reminiscent of Crazy Horse and paring down for devastating intimate moments. Capacity established the group as critical darlings in 2017 and presented an even more all-encompassing picture of Lenker’s range and prolificacy as a writer with tracks like the sepia-toned piano ballad “Mary.” The cerebral and intricate U.F.O.F. and the looser, more Americana-focused Two Hands came back-to-back in 2019, heralding a more collaborative approach to writing and arrangement. After 2022’s playful, genre-bending double album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, it seemed there were no creative inroads the band was too timid to explore.
- ORIGIN
- Brooklyn, NY, United States
- FORMED
- 2015
- GENRE
- Alternative