You can’t sing more nicer about getting older. “Don’t get Saggy, don’t get gray”, wants to persuade her society, according to Adrianne Lenker in “Incompline Sensible”. But she proudly wears her first gray hair: “Let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair.” The music of Big Thief also feels like the handlebars of nature leaves a free hand: fluent, rampant, a warm stream that lifts and lowers.
Recommendations of the editorial team
According to the extensive predecessor, Double Infinity is again manageable, the result of collective studio recordings in New York. For the first time without a bass player and founding member Max Oleartchik, but with various guest musicians: inside. You can feel the community spirit and live character. Double Infinity navigates through wonderful psychedelic folk rock, percussive groove and space for improvisation that sometimes goes wrong. In contrast, intimate singer/songwriter moments are missing.
Nevertheless, the handlebar lets you close: childhood memories, sexual desire, old love, new love. The latter sometimes only needs a few words: “Happy with you”, repeated handlebar mantra for acoustic guitars and a madchester-like beat. And it formulates lines that you want to embroider in the towel: “I Saw Sun Through the Clouds / I Saw Love Through the Pain / Gonna Turn It All in Into Rock and Roll.” Gladly!
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 09/2025.