“The third album from the Brooklyn quartet is an intimate and surreal experience, a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level.”
“Big Thief arrive at the release of this third record with their copybook still pristine. It isn’t just that the Brooklyn-based four-piece have so impressively squeezed fresh life out of the incredibly well-worn juncture at which rock meets folk; it’s also that they’ve done so by putting out two wonderfully assured LPs in the space of barely twelve months and established singer Adrianne Lenker as a”
“New York indie-folk outfit Big Thief have been touring constantly for four years in conjunction with their first two full-lengths: 2016’s Masterpiece and 2017’s Capacity. Their new album U.F.O.F. was largely informed by their relentless touring schedule and the band’s heightened personal and musical synergy. According to a press release, some of the songs were recorded just hours after they were w”
“U.F.O.F. is mostly listenable—if a bit derivative—indie folk with a few flashes of brilliance sprinkled throughout the tracklist.”