BIG THIEF
new album
“Two Hands”
out now!
Watch ‘Not’ live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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“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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Two Hands, the fourth studio album by Big Thief and their second release this year, is out now via 4AD / Remote Control. Big Thief appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week giving a gripping performance of ‘Not’, the lead single from Two Hands.
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Two Hands – “the earth twin” follows the May release of U.F.O.F. – “the celestial twin” – a universally beloved album which garnered a 9.2 score from Pitchfork, who called it “a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level.” 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 colors 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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Purchase / Stream Big Thief – “Two Hands”
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Big Thief
“Two Hands”
1.Rock And Sing
2. Forgotten Eyes
3. The Toy
4. Two Hands
5. Those Girls
6. Shoulders
7. Not
8. Wolf
9. Replaced
10. Cut My Hair
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