Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Lovely folky americanay indie at times but much much too long. Had to pause and didn’t feel the need to continue which under my personal Bylaws = 1

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

Charming stuff. It could grow on me.

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.

It's a 4* album, but it has a Jews harp, and as a consistent applier of my own arbitrary rules, that means +1*

nice, enjoyed it 3.2

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.

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

This album is pure magic. Thsnkszfor putting it here.

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

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.