Seems like this record’s got a lot of odds and sods they’ve been playing for years right? Makes sense they’d want to knock them out in a live setting, and also would naturally sound closest to Masterpiece in general.
All positive signs for me, that approach and tone is definitely what I’m after in Big Thief.
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Yup, as I mentioned before ‘Shoulders’ has been around for ages. It is still very much a cohesive record and should be treated as such but there’s some old songs on there.
Yeah I remember you mentioning that, you’ll probably love this one (my flatmate had the same reaction)
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This is great, cheers for posting
Better or worse than UFOF???
Don’t make me choose
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Nah but seriously, they’re pretty equally great and also quite different, so it’s genuinely impossible to choose
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Cursory flick through Q on my lunch break and they gave it a fairly lukewarm 3/5. Said it lacked any memorable melodies. I’ve not even heard it and I assume this is utter rubbish.
A little surprising to hear Q magazine still exists tbh
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Sadly lacks any memorable reviews and is utter rubbish
Well indeed. I hasten to add this was in WH Smiths. It was either that or the naturist magazine.
Joining Team Severed in saying that it’s absolutely wonderful. I find that “stories” found in press releases are often nonsense but it really feels like the way it’s described. It’s so…earthy and grounded, where UFOF was way up in the stars and beyond. You can feel the dry, prickly heat all over it. What a fucking band.
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Interesting, given that I couldn’t think of a more grounded, tactile song than Cattails!
(Aye, that’s also true haha)
think its testement to how special and legit this band is that they can actually back up the standard haughty press release.
Big Thief release month is tomorrow!
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Reckon they’ll drop another track from the album before the release date? They released UFOF, Cattails and (iirc) Century before the last album came out. One more would be nice.
Well aware that I sound like a desperate Big Thief junkie jonesing for a fix here.
Coming out on the 25th isn’t it?
I reckon they could do a lot worse than come up with a BIG THIEF ADVENT CALENDAR. We could open a new window and scoff some chocolate as we counted down to release day.
I would buy this.
plus you could fill it back up with chocolate, draw a Father Christmas Hat on the picture of Adrienne and the team on the front and re-use it in December.
The 11th, apparently! I also thought it was later in the month for some reason…
I will put off my application to Dragon’s Den for a BT Advent Calendar then. Darn.