Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2LP)

EAN code : 0191400040816
Carrier : LP
Release date : 11-02-2022

Big Thief has announced their new album 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You'. The album will be released on February 11, 2022. 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You' (DNWMIBIY) is a double LP that explores the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. In order to delve even deeper into everything that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia already was, the band decided to write and record the account of their growth as individuals, musicians, and chosen family over four separate recording sessions. In Upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, The Rocky Mountains, and Tucson, Arizona, Big Thief spent 5 months on the music and emerged with 45 completed songs. Of this material, 20 tracks are part of the upcoming album. DNWMIBIY was produced by drummer James Krivchenia who initially pitched the recording concept for DNWMIBIY back in late 2019 with the aim of encapsulating the many different aspects of Adrianne's songwriting and the band onto a single record.

All four of these sessions, in their various states of fidelity, style and mood, when viewed together as one album, seem to represent a more honest, zoomed-out view of a lived experience than would be possible on a traditional 12-track record. This was exactly what the band hoped would result from this large-scale experiment. When Max’s mother asked during a phone call how it felt to be making music with the band for the first time in a year, he described it as best he could: “Well it’s like, we’re a band, we talk, we have different dynamics, we do the breaths, and then we go on stage and suddenly it feels like we are now on a dragon. And we can’t really talk because we have to steer this dragon.”

The attempt to capture something deeper, broader and full of mystery is indicative of Big Thief's inherent spirit. Traces of this open-hearted faith are palpable on previous albums, but reach a new level on 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You'.

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