Big Thief have announced a new album ‘Double Infinity’ alongside a new single ‘Incomprehensible’. Find all the details below.
The band’s sixth studio LP, and follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-nominated ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You‘, will be released September 5 via 4AD (pre-order here).
‘Double Infinity’ was created with a multitude of collaborators, including Alena Spanger, Ginla’s Jon Nellen, Natural Information Society’s Mikel Patrick Avery, and Laraaji, and sees the band as a trio following the departure of bassist Max Oleartchik in July.
Per a press release, the album was recorded over the span of three weeks at New York’s Power Station, with longtime collaborator Dom Monks on production, engineering, and mixing duties.
Alongside the announcement, the band have shared the lead single ‘Incomprehensible’, which sees them contemplate the future while reflecting on golden childhood memories. “Everything I see from now on will be something new,” Adrianne Lenker sings. “Let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair.” Check it out below.
The indie folk band have been teasing new material over the past year, debuting 10 songs at Oregon’s Project Pabst last July, and a further track called ‘Taker’ in Belgium in August.
In February, they shared a charity EP ‘Passion Relation’ to help raise funds for those who were affected by the LA Wildfires.
The ‘Double Infinity’ tracklist is:
1. ‘Incomprehensible’
2. ‘Words’
3. ‘Los Angeles’
4. ‘All Night All Day’
5. ‘Double Infinity’
6. ‘No Fear’
7. ‘Grandmother’ (ft. Laraaji)
8. ‘Happy With You’
9. ‘How Could I Have Known’
Their last album, 2022’s ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’ scored a four-star review from NME, which read: There’s a certain looseness that suits Big Thief well across the whole record. Those in search of a tightly cohesive album knitted around a single concept have probably come to the wrong place entirely – but for a sprawling answer to the band’s two huge 2019 breakthrough records ‘Two Hands’ and ‘U.F.F.O’, then look no further.
Meanwhile, Lenker’s last solo album came in the form of 2024’s ‘Bright Future’. In a four-star review of the album, Leo Lawton wrote for NME: “It’s been a decade since Lenker first began to make her mark with her second album ‘Hours Were The Birds’, and her direction remains unclear.
“However, it is precisely this dislocation which wields tremendous power on ‘Bright Future’. Much like her beatnik days on the road, this album reflects all of life’s twists and turns. It’s the perfect soundtrack to a long car journey spent staring out of the window, yearning for those you left behind.”
Since then, she released a massive new 43-track live album in April.
