With raw power and intimacy, Two Hands folds itself gracefully into Big Thief’s impressive discography. While the title track on Capacity embodies the matured control and all-encompassing nature of the album (it takes on many, discombobulated, half-filled but somehow suspenseful sounds and wanders in themes in the way all of the songs do), 'Mary' is the 'Masterpiece' for Big Thief this time around.
All but two songs feature entirely live vocal takes, leaving Adrianne’s voice suspended above the mix in dry air, raw and vulnerable as ever. The songs were recorded live with almost no overdubs. Two Hands had to be completely different- an album about the Earth and the bones beneath it. It hasn’t even been a year since the band released their full-length debut, Masterpiece, which Lenker says is connected. After forming the four-piece Big Thief with James. She began releasing solo material as a teen in the mid-2000s before partnering with eventual bandmate Buck Meek on a pair of duo EPs in 2014. The 105-degree weather boiled away any clinging memories of the green trees and wet air of the previous session. Big Thief will be releasing their sophomore album Capacity in early June. The folk-tinged indie rock of Brooklyns Big Thief is shaped by the very personal songwriting of singer/guitarist Adrianne Lenker. session, the southwestern Sonic Ranch studio was chosen for its vast desert location. In sharp contrast to the wet environment of the U.F.O.F.
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layered mysterious sounds and effects for levitation, Two Hands grounds itself on dried-out, cracked desert dirt. Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James Krivchenia) set up their instruments as close together as possible to capture their most important collection of songs yet. 30 miles west of El Paso, surrounded by 3,000 acres of pecan orchards and only a stone’s throw from the Mexican border, Big Thief (a.k.a. Now it was time to birth U.F.O.F.’s sister album – “the earth twin” – Two Hands. – “the celestial twin” – days before in a cabin studio in the woods of Washington State. Big Thief had only just finished work on their 3rd album, U.F.O.F.
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The new full length album from the excellent Big Thief. Big Thief Two Hands Limited LP is on 'desert peach' coloured vinyl.
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