BIG THIEF
Announce Australian live dates
May 2020
Two Hands and U.F.O.F out now
Share ‘Not’ & ‘Cattails’ live from Bunker Studios
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Praise for Big Thief – U.F.O.F
“The third album from the Brooklyn quartet is an intimate and surreal experience, a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level.” – Pitchfork, 9.2 Best New Music
“There’s a mystical bind to U.F.O.F. that grips the listener and never lets go.” – Uncut (9/10)
“Their most stylistically ambitious record yet.” – Loud And Quiet (9/10)
“A record full of striking transitions and lucid dreaming.” – MOJO ★★★★
“A profound and poised third album.” – Record Collector ★★★★
“Adrianne Lenker’s curious blend of myth and musical mettle makes her one of the most intriguing songwriters operating currently.” – Q ★★★★
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Praise for Big Thief – Two Hands
“The second landmark album this year from Big Thief is raw, tactile, and essential. The intimate songs zoom in on a band that feels, at this moment, totally invincible.” – Pitchfork, 9.0 Best New Music
“Powerful and gritty grunge folk.” – The Guardian, ★★★★
“Second stunner of the year.” – Record Collector, ★★★★★
“2019 is Big Thief’s year.” – The Skinny, ★★★★★
“The world is unsurprisingly completely taken with Big Thief, who among many things, express the deepest of authenticity and generosity within their music.” – STACK
“A musical treat, it devastates and uplifts in equal measure.” – Loud And Quiet
“Two Hands captures the best of what makes the group’s live shows so compelling – their force and immediacy, the unparalleled togetherness of their playing.” – NPR
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Love Police and Remote Control Records are thrilled to announce that Big Thief will return to Australia in May 2020 to play shows in Melbourne and Brisbane. Following on from two near sell-out tours and a Meredith Music Festival appearance in 2017, Big Thief will play The Corner in Melbourne on Tuesday 19th May (presented by Triple R) and Brisbane’s The Zoo on Thursday 21st May (presented by Jet Black Cat Music). Full tour dates and ticketing information are below. Sydney show details to be announced soon!
To celebrate the announcement of Australian tour dates for 2020, Big Thief have shared two new live videos from Bunker Studios in New York City. Watch live versions of their 2019 singles ‘Not’ and ‘Cattails’ below.
In 2019 Big Thief released two critically acclaimed albums via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Two Hands – “the earth twin” released in October followed on from the May release of U.F.O.F. – “the celestial twin” – a universally beloved album described by Pitchfork as “a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level” and now nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best Alternative Music Album category.
While some have looked on in wonderment at this prolific band’s decision to release two substantial releases in the same year, the decision was, as with every decision the band makes, eminently intentional and deeply considered. Two Hands is a partner to U.F.O.F.
In Stereogum’s recent cover story on the band, Adrianne Lenker beautifully describes how the two albums connect and how they differ: “U.F.O.F. is meant to be more focused on the immeasurable, sort of suspended ethereal playing with textures and colours and layering in the production, staring out into the abyss. And Two Hands is more the micro, zooming into the blood and tissue and guts of being a human, the raw, bare, naked bones, not much layering, capturing just our performances in the room, just very dry, no reverbs, just skin and flesh and human, finite, physical. But I think each of them contains parts of the others.”
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Big Thief – 2020 Australian Tour Dates
Presented by Love Police
Tuesday 19 May – The Corner, Melbourne
Presented by Triple R
Tickets
Thursday 21 May – The Zoo, Brisbane
Presented by Jet Black Cat Music
Tickets
Love Police pre-sale – Friday 6th Dec 10AM – Sun 8th Dec 12AM AEDT Sign Up Here
General on sale – Tuesday 10th December 10AM AEDT
Sydney show to be announced soon!
All info at lovepolice.com.au/big-
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Why start a music environment? The truth is I love music, I love writing, and I love life. I work with musicians every day, and I feel certain that I will be until they put me in the ground. I have been managing people in businesses of some sort for over thirty five years so along the way I have developed some “wisdom” from my regular and constant “observations”.
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