Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 11, 2022) Album • Page 19

Turn in your direction
Feeling like I need attention
Told you this once or twice
Won't you hear?
I see you in the yard, drinking a beer
Leaving me undressed
Like some cheap classic movie
Maybe I'm a little obsessed
Maybe you do use me

 

Swirling wall of sound music like “Little Things”, “Flower of Blood” and “Jenni” is my favorite genre of music. I’ve decided.

 

An album like this also recontextualizes all of their other albums. I’ve gone back to the other ones, which I already loved, but now there are more dots connected, it’s like finding new constellations in the stars or taking a step back from a painting and appreciating the totality of it all.

 

Flower of blood is my favorite non single

 

Same, closely followed by the title track

 

Hard to think of a better opening line to a song than "give me some time on earth to know you"

 

I think the only place is my favorite non-single. Just unreal songwriting.

 

gorgeous track

love songs that sound like they're exploding from the inside out are always my favorite

 

Is my guy cooking wet oyster crackers lol

 

supremely odd tweet

 

Wh.. what?

 

Unbelievably large "touch grass" vibes

 

:/

 

oh fucking hell come on

the phrase is misused a lot but LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS

 

I don't understand Twitter drama. This album rules.

 

much rather read this than whatever the fuck that was

 

Yeah the problem here is too many white dude music writers not any group of people's association with big thief lmfao

 

since the last time Big Thief put out a record I went from white dude music writer to white non-binary music writer, hope I still get a pass lol

 

it also seems like Inventing a Guy. who is attacking people for saying Big Thief is fine? this entire drama seems manufactured and dumb, but I agree, there should be way more space for non-white straight dudes to speak up about the band

 

also yeah this is out over here and even though I've had it for a month I'm excited to dive back in again tomorrow, how does that even work??

 

Everyone’s favorite bro rock band, Big Thief

 

If the convo were about getting more writers who aren’t white dudes into major publications, hell yeah I’d support that. Not that Big Thief caters to a “bro rock” fanbase or whatever lol.
I’d be happy to read criticism of the album. What I’m reading is a lot of “they’re fine” and then people making shitty comments asking when their bubble is going to burst. Weird vibes all around

 

i think the bubble conversation is interesting when posited as "this is the most acclaim a band has gotten off a multi-album run in a while, I wonder how long it will last" vs. "when will this bubble burst already!" stuff

people are allowed to say an album is fine and not like it. it happens for literally every band on the internet. obviously critiques should be deeper than that and actually engage with the album, but this is also the era of people saying the album review is dead, and you can't have both