Big Thief announce their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, out 5th September via 4AD, and share lead single and album opener, ‘Incomprehensible’.
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Album cover photo by Bobby Doherty
Double Infinity is the follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-nominated album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, and was recorded last winter at the Power Station, New York City.
For three solid weeks, the trio would ride bicycles on frozen streets between Brooklyn and Manhattan, meeting in Power Station’s warm wood-panelled room. Together with a community of musicians (Alena Spanger, Caleb Michel, Hannah Cohen, Jon Nellen, Joshua Crumbly, June McDoom, Laraaji, Mikel Patrick Avery, Mikey Buishas), they would play for nine hours a day, tracking together – simultaneously – improvising arrangements and making collective discoveries. The album was recorded live with minimal overdubs. Double Infinity was produced, engineered and mixed by longtime Big Thief collaborator Dom Monks.
“How can beauty that is living be anything but true?” Adrianne asks as she drives nose against the future with childhood mementos on lead single ‘Incomprehensible’. She understands “everything I see from now on will be something new.” The silver hairs on her shoulders are new as well. Yet fear of aging is cracked by proof. If a life is shaped by living, “Let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair.” Being born, then staying a while, remains the greatest mystery. Adrianne claims her place and time. “Incomprehensible, let me be.”
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The track had its first play simultaneously across multiple radio stations worldwide, including the US and UK, and is featured on the cover of Apple Music’s New Music Daily.
The 4AD Store is also hosting an exclusive t-shirt design, pictured below and available here.
Big Thief – Double Infinity
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1. Incomprehensible
2. Words
3. Los Angeles
4. All Night All Day
5. Double Infinity
6. No Fear
7. Grandmother
8. Happy With You
9. How Could I Have Known
To celebrate the release of Double Infinity, Big Thief will embark on the first leg of their Somersault Slide 360 Tour. The extensive tour – their first US shows in over a year – kicks off in September and includes stops at Berkeley’s The Greek Theater, Los Angeles’s The Hollywood Bowl (their largest non-festival headline show yet), Boston’s MGM Music Hall, New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, and their first show in Mexico at Teatro Metropolitan. A full list of dates is available below and tickets are now available here.
September
17th – Channel 24, Sacramento CA, US
19th – Edgefield, Troutdale OR, US
21st – Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical, Boise ID, US
22nd – Twilight Concert Series, Salt Lake City UT, US
25th – The Greek Theater, Berkeley CA, US
27th – Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA, US
28th – Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego CA, US
October
1st – Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City, Mexico
20th – State Theatre, Portland ME, US
21st – MGM Music Hall, Boston MA, US
22nd – The Met, Philadelphia PA, US
24th – The Anthem, Washington DC, US
25th – Forest Hills Stadium, Queens NY, US
29th – Red Hat Ampitheater, Raleigh NC, US
30th – The Fox Theatre, Atlanta GA, US
31st – Saenger Theatre, New Orleans LA, US
November
3rd – Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa OK, US
4th – The Bomb Factory, Dallas TX, US
5th – Moody Ampitheater at Waterloo Park, Austin TX, US
7th – White Oak Music Hall Lawn, Houston TX, US
