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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Big Thief

2022

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is the fifth studio album by the American band Big Thief, released as a double album through 4AD on February 11, 2022. Produced by drummer James Krivchenia, the album features 20 songs which were recorded over five months in five different locations across the United States. The album was supported by six singles. It was also the last album to feature bassist and founding member Max Oleartchik before his departure in 2024. It received universal acclaim from critics upon release and entered the top forty in several territories, including Australia, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom; it reached the top ten of the albums charts in Belgium and the Netherlands. The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You was released to widespread acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on 26 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 8.4 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.

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Rating

3.06

Votes

67

Genres

  • Folk
  • Rock

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Nov 05 2024
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4

Kind of primed to dislike this - the overlong, cryptic title and whimsical pencil sketch cover art. But I liked most of it and some very much. A vocal style I feel is kind of limited, though it held surprisingly well up at considerable length. A lot of the music was kind of nondescript folk guitar, but some really interesting stuff interspersed. Lyrics were the strongest point to me evwn if theybdid get a little too cute at times. Overall felt the good very much outweighed the merely OK.

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Nov 05 2024
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5

This album is pure magic. Thsnkszfor putting it here.

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Nov 06 2024
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5

Nice chill folky tunes with occasionally exciting beats. A flute shows up sometimes. I liked this so much.

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Nov 05 2024
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4

This is really nice. Long, but nice. 4 stars.

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Nov 07 2024
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4

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Little things, Blurred view, Simulation swarm

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Nov 05 2024
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3

Heard big thief many times, but somehow I never noticed that ot was Adrianna Lenker wow 4 3

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Nov 05 2024
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3

Wow! This is a very good album! It sounds incredibly good. I really appreciated the recommendation. I still don’t think that an album only 2 years old should be part in any Best Albums list; it is a baby album. It hasn’t achieved enough compared to others. It hasn’t created a meaningful impact in music yet.

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Nov 06 2024
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3

Charming stuff. It could grow on me.

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Nov 11 2024
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3

Pretty and enjoyable female-sung bluegrass and indie folk. 3.5 stars

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Nov 13 2024
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3

When this album works, it's golden - Earthy, quietly elegant, mildly quirky. Where it doesn't work, it drags or wanders off into the weeds stylistically. On the whole a very nice listen, but also entirely too long. Fave Songs: Certainty, Blue Lightning, Spud Infinity, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, Dried Roses, Red Moon, Wake Me Up to Drive

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Nov 13 2024
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3

What a mixed bag. There's several songs that are just pleasant to listen to on a cold Autumn day (which is probably helping my appreciation of this album) but it also has some really boring duds and it goes on way, way longer than it needs to. If this album was cut in half I could probably give it a 4, despite the fact that music like this tends to be very niche to me.

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Nov 21 2024
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3

Indie folk, folk rock, Americana, country rock. Ni fu ni fa.

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Nov 23 2024
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3

I saw Pitchfork gave this a ridiculously high rating but never checked it out. The vocals, for all their unflashiness, are solid. I appreciate parts of this record, such as when they dip their toes in what sounds a little like Goldfrapp trying to do a folk song ("Blurred View"). Singer Adrianne Lenker's voice sounds familiar, but I genuinely, for the life of me, can't figure out who I'm thinking of. Feels a little Dolores O'Riordan, Gillian Welch, and several singers I've heard on Mountain Stage. It's... fine? I return my earlier comment of "I like parts of it", and certain parts just do not click with me, such as the extremely repetitive "Sparrow". It's a long, long, loooong album at 80 minutes. It's not something I'm going to come back to. Favorite tracks: "Certainty", "Blurred View", "Simulation Swarm"

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Nov 29 2024
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3

Pleasant but it only does one thing. 80 minutes is too long to do one brilliant things, let alone one quite nice thing. Rating: 2.5 Playlist track: Simulation Swarm Date listened: 02/12/24

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Nov 30 2024
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3

I’ve given this album so many chances and I still can’t get into it

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Nov 06 2024
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2

I’ve been a fan of previous Big Thief efforts and have usually enjoyed their LPs, but this one is entirely too long and bloated as an artistic project for my tastes. 80 minutes of music that doesn’t have much of an overarching narrative progression is a lot to ask of any listener, and even a band of this instrumental caliber struggles to hold together that much songwriting in a way that feels distinct track to track without getting tiring. Big Thief has always excelled at creating small, intimate moments in their tightly-coordinated albums, so I struggle to understand why they pushed to extremes here and tried to pack so much into one go.

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Nov 27 2024
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2

Of all the female led indie music that’s come out over the past 10 years bug thief was never one that really grabbed my attention. This album had the same effect as I didn’t mind listening to it but it didn’t ever make me want to come back to a certain song or really dig deeper into the lyrics. It’s pretty simplistic album that is executed well but not something I’d revisit. 5.5/10

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Nov 06 2024
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1

Artless crap pretending to be deep. No more folk please. 1/5.

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Nov 07 2024
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1

Another "rock/folk" ... the truth is I'm tired of this mix of genres, it seems that each one wants to recommend "a better one" of them. The music doesn't seem special to me and sometimes I feel that the vocalist is trying to be too retro folk, it's like that music you'd expect to find in a bar somewhere on a melancholic afternoon... a feeling or mood that I'd rather avoid.

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