Big Thief - Two Hands (Fall 2019) Album

Big Thief dropping their sister album to U.F.O.F., Two Hands, this fall on 4AD.

Tracklisting

1. Rock And Sing
2. Forgotten Eyes
3. The Toy
4. Two Hands
5. Those Girls
6. Shoulders
7. Not
8. Wolf
9. Replaced
10. Cut My Hair

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  30 miles west of El Paso, surrounded by 3,000 acres of pecan orchards and only a stone’s throw from the Mexican border, the band Big Thief (a.k.a. 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. The band had only just finished work on their 3rd album, U.F.O.F. – “the celestial twin” – days before in a cabin studio in the woods of Washington State. Now it was time to birth U.F.O.F.’s sister album – “the earth twin” – Two Hands.
  
  In sharp contrast to the wet environment of the U.F.O.F. session, the southwestern Sonic Ranch studio was chosen for its vast desert location. The 105-degree weather boiled away any clinging memories of the green trees and wet air of the last session. Two Hands had to be completely different— an album about the Earth and the bones beneath it. The songs were recorded live with almost no overdubs. 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. Where U.F.O.F. layered mysterious sounds and effects for levitation, Two Hands grounds itself on dried-out, cracked desert dirt.
  
  With raw power and intimacy, Two Hands folds itself gracefully into Big Thief’s impressive discography. This body of work grows deeper and more inspiring with each new album. While you listen, let your own two hands rest in front of your body with palms facing inward and see what power grows between them.

 

uh woah

 

What?! Hell yeah!

 

This is beyond exciting, I’m genuinely shocked.

 

well okay then??

 

Fuck yes, both of these are on it

 

Uhg yea I’ve definitely heard “Not”. That song is classic.

 

oh wow

 

this is wild

 

You’d think “Desert” would have made the “desert” album

 

I can’t believe how amazing this band is

 

I remember being totally shocked when they announced UFOF cause it was only a few months after Adrienne’s solo album and she was still touring that. And now they’ve done made me feel it again in the same year. Absolute legends.

 

Damnnnnnn

 

I love when a band just goes “hey we are probably entering our creative peak, let’s put out as much music as we possibly can because we are that good”.

 

Wtf?! Sick

 

I’m gonna lose it

 

was thinking the other day how exciting it’d be to watch them grow

now we’re being given two albums in a year! (plus her magical solo record from last year)

wow

 

woah whaaaattttt

 

This is nuts

 

badass

 

cannot believe we are lucky enough for this

 

This is so crazy

 

We are truly blessed

 

Holy shit this band is incomparable