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Artist
Big Thief
Label
4AD
Catalogue Number
4AD0754
Release Date
June 9, 2017

The trails that Brooklyn’s Big Thief -- Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums) -- take us down on 2017’s Capacity, the band’s highly critically acclaimed sophomore album, are overgrown with the wilderness of pumping souls.

After 2016’s stunning Masterpiece, Capacity was recorded in a snowy winter nest in upstate New York at Outlier Studio with producer Andrew Sarlo. The album jumps right into lives marked up and nipped in surprisingly swift fashion. They are peopled and unpeopled, spooked and soothed, regenerating back into a state where they can once again be vulnerable. Lenker’s songs introduce us to a gallery of multifaceted women and deal with the complicated matters of identity — at once dangerous and curious, though never unbelievable. Lenker shows us the gentle side of being ripped open. Tricked into love, done in and then witnessing the second act of pulling oneself back together to prepare for it to all happen again, but this time to a sturdier soul, one who is going to take the punches better than ever before and deal some jabs and roundhouses of their own.

The album is thick with raw, un-doctored beauty: most of the songs on Capacity were played for the rest time in the studio and were recorded the same day. “There is a darker darkness and a lighter light on this album,” Lenker explains. “The songs search for a deeper level of self- acceptance, to embrace the world within and without. I think Masterpiece began that process, as a reaction from inside the pain, whereas I feel Capacity examines the pain from the outside.”

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Pretty Things 3:04 Buy

    Pretty Things

  2. 2 Shark Smile 3:58 Buy

    Shark Smile

  3. 3 Capacity 3:51 Buy

    Capacity

  4. 4 Watering 3:22 Buy

    Watering

  5. 5 Coma 3:39 Buy

    Coma

  6. 6 Great White Shark 3:22 Buy

    Great White Shark

  7. 7 Mythological Beauty 5:06 Buy

    Mythological Beauty

  8. 8 Objects 2:42 Buy

    Objects

  9. 9 Haley 3:32 Buy

    Haley

  10. 10 Mary 5:30 Buy

    Mary

  11. 11 Black Diamonds 3:34 Buy

    Black Diamonds

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