The prepared acoustic guitars and huge stomp beat of today’s "Time Escaping" create a matching, otherworldly backdrop for the subconscious dream of timeless, infinite mystery. Several of the songs from this session lyrically explore the areas of Lenker’s thought process that she describes as “unabashedly as psychedelic as I naturally think,” including "Little Things", which came out of this session. It was here that the band procured "Certainty" and "Sparrow".įor the next session in Topanga Canyon, California, the band intended to explore their bombastic desires and lay down some sonic revelry in the experimental soundscape-friendly hands of engineer Shawn Everett. That cool water blessing stayed with Big Thief through the rest of the summer and many more intuitive, recording rituals followed. After a few un-inspired takes the band decided to take an ice-cold dip in the creek behind the house before running back to record in wet swimsuits. It took a while for the band to realign and for the first week of working in the studio, nothing felt right. They started the process at Sam Evian’s Flying Cloud Recordings, recording on an 8-track tape machine with Evian at the knobs. In an attempt to ease back into life as Big Thief after a long stretch of Covid-19 related isolation, the band met up for their first session in the woods of upstate New York. The most resonant of this material was edited down into the 20 tracks that make up DNWMIBIY, a fluid and adventurous listen. Big Thief spent 5 months in creation mode and came out with 45 completed songs. In Upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, The Rocky Mountains, and Tucson, Arizona. The band decided to write and record a rambling account of growth as individuals, musicians, and chosen family over 4 distinct recording sessions. Big Thief returns with Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, a sprawling double record that truly digs deep into all that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia desired to make in 2020.
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