Adrianne Lenker's voice sounds like the very last ray of sunshine.
The best indie-folk consensus band of our time lets fiddles blaze and percussions clatter.
Thesis: What was the music of Bright Eyes 15, 20 years ago is now the Sad Songs of the Brooklyn band Big Thief (which even appeared temporarily on Saddle Creek, the label of boss Bright Eye Conor Oberst).
Evidence: Their fifth studio album "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You". Like in a completely different way, the four manage to craft music from classic pieces of indie folk and rock, which is unanimously loved by many tender souls.
Music, however, that still sounds like themselves from the first note, even allowing itself enough stubbornness to keep overly strict folk traditionalists at bay. Another Bright Eyes parallel: DRAGON... is anything but casually produced, and yet every wobble is carried along in Adrianne Lenker's voice, which always sounds like the last ray of sunshine that comes through the window before nightfall trembles.
According to the band, the impressive 20 songs on the double album were recorded in four different locations: in Upstate New York, in Topanga Canyon, in the Rocky Mountains and in Tucson, Arizona. So we hear the Big Thief sound in a wide variety of colors, hear stumbled, dark red electronics like in "Blurred View", airy clapping or songs like "Dried Roses", which so openly serve folk clichés.
Oh yes, and of course the howling locks open as soon as the opera "Change" is played. That's not to say that Big Thief, one of the best indie consensus bands of our time, ever settle into their signature sound for too long.
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