Big Thief - Double Infinity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSqYsmmfbCI

1 Incomprehensible 3:53
2 Words 3:47
3 Los Angeles 3:57
4 All Night All Day 4:48
5 Double Infinity 4:12
6 No Fear 6:58
7 Grandmother (feat. Laraaji) 6:00
8 Happy With You 4:26
9 How Could I Have Known 4:48

out 5 september

but where are the other 11 songs???

it wouldn't surprise me if there's a follow-up next year, they have a lot more unreleased material than this & we know they attempted to record a lot more than these 9 songs during the sessions for this album in january

"incomprehensible" is very different to how they were playing it live (although very much in line with the sound of other new tracks) but it's wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qArEypGxUk

they've played the whole album live except for the title track and i'm particularly happy "grandmother" is here, hopefully they'll do it justice

if anyone wants an idea of what the rest of the album's going to resemble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqkWxgM1mIk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAqYmRwRmM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ivn2n4aZA0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUBHXFbkPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OQmqY45Lf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAzc5dYL_Ng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrOjNsUhXNM

"all night all day" is at 45:10 in that long one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZM703_UJk

and i pasted "happy with you" twice instead of "grandmother", the best song

that's my grandma!

gonna turn it all into rock and roll!

mikey buishas, who's credited with keys & tape loops on the album, was the drummer in adrianne & buck's pre-big thief band pencil

The "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" chord changes on "Incomprehensible" are not doing it for me, but this is coming from a v casual BT fan whose fave releases of theirs were U.F.O.F. and Live at the Bunker and was only really floored by "Blurred View" on Dragon/kinda wish(ed) them and Shawn Everett would reunite and veer off further into that direction at some point.

"No Fear"'s 8+2+8/slow 5+4 rhythm is grabbing me much more on that live clip, though, thanks for posting all those, ufo

i hope "no fear" is going to be absolutely gigantic on record

i very much expect this to be by far their least folk album. "incomprehensible" really reminds me of loose fur's "laminated cat", there's a similar folk-rock-gone-krautrock vibe

Very excited for this! New song needs some getting used to.

I like the new one, it's trippy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sd0E6tLPQM

"all night all day" sounds as expected, percussive groove with ambient noodling, i like it more than incomprehensible

yea "all night all day" is really nice. when the harmonies and noodling come in at the end it really elevates what came before

Between this and last year's "Lunch", maybe we need an "ode to oral sex song of the year".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOeELtc6fqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqIeKeQY8G4

"los angeles" and "grandmother"

"los angeles" sounds how i'd expected but "grandmother" is totally different than the live version, this dream-pop arrangement is quite nice but it's not the same as the intense neil young-esque version they were playing live

could've done without laraaji on grandmother but it's not my jam anyway, los angeles on the other hand - great stuff!

I was hoping he'd be on kalimba or zither there