Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You: "2022-02-18 Top 100 Scottish Albums Archive". Official Charts Company . Retrieved February 19, 2022. If Lenker's songs ring true to life, it may be because they're true to hers. Lenker was born into a cult in Indiana that her parents left when she was young. She remembers the uncertain periods that followed. "We had a van — a big, giant blue van — that we converted ourselves into a little home," she says. "We'd live there for a couple weeks at a time and then we'd find a landing place." Landing places, like the rented house in Nisswa, Minn. mentioned in Capacity's lead single, " Mythological Beauty." Skinner, Tom (October 6, 2021). "Big Thief share dreamy new single 'Change' and North American tour dates". NME . Retrieved June 10, 2022. Masterpiece was recorded from July 1–July 12, 2015, on Lake Champlain in Essex, New York. [5] [6] Cover artwork [ edit ] a b c Walker-Smart, Sam (June 6, 2016). "Big Thief - Masterpiece". Clash . Retrieved August 6, 2022.

Masterpiece is a scrapbook of sorts, so it makes sense that the name songs—“Paul,” “Lorraine,” “Randy”—tend to be the strongest. "Paul"twinkles gorgeously through a wistful, dreamy ache of guitars as Lenker recounts a love that could have been if she hadn't been so practical, but "Lorraine" is the kind of scene worth replaying in your mind every night just before dozing off. Atop a lightly strummed acoustic melody, Lenker describes an encounter that under another's less tender eye would seem dirty. But Lenker—seemingly harmonizing with herself—captures the magic of spontaneous attraction, the way some lovers can draw you in through just about anything. They played shows with the songs that would make up Masterpiece. Lenker got her first electric guitar in the mail on New Year's Day, 2015. It is, like Bonnie, an object of lore for a band that runs on a sense of myth — a brown custom-made Collings carved from a single slab of mahogany that the guitar maker had been saving for a special purpose. That July, she brought it to a friend's family lake house for 12 days where it was, alongside Meek's own, the roaring id of Big Thief, a tool she could use to unleash the subterranean tension beneath her melodious songs. James Krivchenia began the sessions as their engineer and became their drummer. At that point, they were already close to each other. Redfern, Mark (May 11, 2021). "Big Thief Announce Fall Tour Dates, Release New Live EP and Share Live Video for "Shoulders" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved May 23, 2021.Minsker, Evan (October 6, 2021). "Big Thief Announce 2022 North American Tour, Share New Song "Change": Listen". Pitchfork . Retrieved October 6, 2021. For all except noted: "Big Thief albums". Australian Recording Industry Association / Australian-charts . Retrieved March 8, 2022. Krivchenia writes their set list for every show. At the Berklee event, Lenker asked him what song he wanted to play — he responded with a song he most wanted to hear, an unreleased cut in which he barely plays at all. A student marveled at his egolessness.

Masterpiece – Single by Big Thief on Apple Music". Apple Music. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021 . Retrieved November 9, 2021. Forgotten Eyes" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but charted as an "extra tip" on the Ultratip chart. [45] I think it's really valid," Lenker says. "It's probably a useful part of yourself telling you, 'This is vulnerable, this feels really exposed,' and that's like you telling you to treat it with care when you do do it ... Start to share with people, even just one or two people at a time, even just a couple friends who you want to share with, where you feel like this will be a safe place — 'I know that people are actually listening,' and then sharing it there."At the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and "Certainty" was nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance. [39] U.F.O.F.: "2019-05-10 Top 100 Scottish Albums Archive". Official Charts Company . Retrieved November 15, 2019.

DeVille, Chris (July 19, 2023). "Big Thief – "Vampire Empire" ". Stereogum . Retrieved July 20, 2023. a b Lee, Taila (November 15, 2022). "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". Grammys.com . Retrieved November 15, 2022. When Big Thief truly power up, it’s a privilege to be proved so wrong about them. The encore is Sparrow, from Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, a double album released last month, in which the biblical Eve takes centre stage. “She has the poison inside her! She talks to snakes and they guide her!” seethes Lenker in character as Adam, a figure whose distress is probably accusation, but could be concern. a b Petrusich, Amanda (October 12, 2020). "Adrianne Lenker's Radical Honesty". The New Yorker . Retrieved May 9, 2022. Later that night, the band huddled as they do before every show. Lenker says a mantra to herself each night such that she delivers an honest performance. "I'm ... setting an intention of, 'Help me to step aside from this and allow what's there to be, and not try to force it to be anything.'"a b Naddaff-Hafrey, Benjamin (November 9, 2017). "The Lore Of Big Thief". NPR . Retrieved May 9, 2022. The band's fifth studio album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, was released in February 2022. A double album, it reached the top ten in the Netherlands and was also nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2023 Grammys, while its second single "Certainty" was nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance.