8.6
Avg Score
14
Opinions
#257
All Time
20
Tracks
“Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is the work of a great band at a creative peak”
“**Favorite tracks:** TIME ESCAPING, SPUD INFINITY, CERTAINTY, SPARROW, HEAVY BEND, BLURRED VIEW, RED MOON, DRIED ROSES, NO REASON, WAKE ME UP TO DRIVE, PROMISE IS A PENDULUM, 12000 LINES, SIMULATION SWARM, LOVE LOVE LOVE, THE ONLY PLACE, BLUE LIGHTNING **Least favorite track:** LITTLE THINGS [Watch the review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB8CkJcztoM)”
“Big Thief’s ambitious yet unburdened fifth album is a 20-song epic of kaleidoscopic invention, striking beauty, and wigged-out humor, rambling far beyond the bounds of their previous work.”
“Big Thief don’t make music; it spills from them. Their first four records emerged magnificently in quick succession, including two released in a single year, and still their live sets are often littered with unreleased material. Yet their music never feels rushed, or forced – it comes from a need, from something that has to be expressed. With their fifth record, an epic twenty-track double LP, we”
“Like so much else, the momentum built up by Big Thief’s two excellent 2019 albums was halted by the pandemic. They began work on their fifth album almost two years ago, but – with lockdowns and three of the band releasing solo material (with mixed results) – it’s been a lengthy gestation. In part, though, that was because they chose to record its 20 songs in four sessions, each in a very different”
“Think of Big Thief, and one quality comes to mind: openness. It’s not just written all over Adrienne Lenker’s image-rich lyrics, but also woven into the tightly-knit and instinctive way that the band perform and create together. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to see the band live – or even dipped a toe into their captivating rendition of ‘Not’ on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert – you’ll be fa”
