American rock band Big Thief has officially announced a new upcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You. The 20-track album will come out on 11th February 2022 via 4AD. The band also shared the latest single from the upcoming release, “Time Escaping”. You can listen to it below.
The forthcoming album will be a double LP “exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief“. The album has been recorded during four distinct sessions in four different locations: In Upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, The Rocky Mountains, and Tucson, Arizona. During five months of recordings, they have created 45 completed songs, edited down to 20 tracks.
The album comes out February 11 and you can order it starting now. It is beyond special to us to share this with you.
Pre-order: https://t.co/08TIgv4pGJ pic.twitter.com/paLjr3Qud5— Big Thief (@bigthiefmusic) November 16, 2021
Album has been produced by James Krivchenia who pitched the recording concept of DNMIBIY back in 2019 “with the goal of encapsulating the many different aspects of Adrianne’s songwriting and the band onto a single record”.
Singer Adrianne Lenker said in press: “One of the things that bonds us together as a band is pure magic. I think we all have the same guide and none of us have ever spoken what it is because we couldn’t name it, but somehow, we are all going for the same thing, and when we hit it… we all know it’s it, but none of us to this day, or maybe ever, will be able to articulate in words what the ‘it’ is. Something about it is magic to me.”
All four experimental recording sessions that made the album varied in style and mood which makes it a more “honest, zoomed-out picture of lived experience than would be possible on a traditional, 12 song record.”
Max Oleartchik commented about playing with the band again after a long stretch of a pandemic: “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.“
You can pre-order the new album here.
The Big Thief World tour will commence in January 2022 in France and finish in Jun. See the full list of EU tour dates below, with tickets available here.
31/01/22 – Aeronef – Lille, France
1/02 – La Cigale – Paris, France
4/02 – Rock School Barbey – Bordeaux, France
5/02 – Sala Apolo – Barcelona, Spain
7/02 – Le Transbordeur – Lyon, France
8/02 – La Laiterie – Strasbourg, France
9/02 – Kaufleuten – Zurich, Switzerland
10/02 – Muffathalle – Munich, Germany
12/02 – MeetFactory – Prague, Czech Republic
13/02 – Huxleys – Berlin, Germany
15/02 – VEGA – Copenhagen, Denmark
16/02 – Fabrik – Hamburg, Germany
18/02 – Live Music Hall – Cologne, Germany
19/02 – Cirque Royal – Brussels, Belgium
21/02 – Ronda – Utrecht, Netherlands
22/02 – De Oosterpoort, Groningen – Netherlands
24/02 – Manchester Academy 1 – Manchester
25/02 – Barrowland – Glasgow
26/02 – National Stadium – Dublin
27/02 – O2 Academy Bristol – Bristol
2/03 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – London
3/03 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – London
4/03 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – London
Photo Credit: Press /Alexa Viscius
