Big Thief present their highly-anticipated new single, ‘Vampire Empire’, off their forthcoming ‘Vampire Empire’ / ‘Born For Loving You’ 7” out on 20th October. ‘Vampire Empire’ is Big Thief’s most eagerly awaited song ever, with the non-album single taking on a life of its own as it became a live fan favourite. Coming off the back of a Grammy-nominated album and debuting on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, it’s already a viral anthem. The television performance and hundreds of live performances of ‘Vampire Empire’ took TikTok by storm. Recorded and produced by Dom Monks at Guissona, Spain’s Teatre de cal Eril Studio during a recent tour, ‘Vampire Empire’ speaks to the beautiful complexity of gender identity and breaking destructive internal cycles.
Big Thief – ‘Vampire Empire’ (Official Audio)
Stream / Download: https://bigthief.
Of the song, Adrianne Lenker adds, “For me, it’s about getting out of toxic internal patterns – leaving the empire of energy drains that obscure pure essence, learning about what healthy boundaries are, and finding the power to implement them for the possibility of giving and receiving (both inwardly and outwardly) unbroken and infinite love.”
Big Thief – ‘Vampire Empire’ (Live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)
Pre-Order Vampire Empire’ / ‘Born For Loving You 7”: https://bigthief.ffm.
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Praise For Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Double J Feature Album
Triple R Album Of The Week
RTRFM Feature Album
Edge Radio Feature Album
SYN International Feature Album
“Big Thief’s ambitious yet unburdened fifth album is a 20-song epic of kaleidoscopic invention, striking beauty, and wigged-out humor, rambling far beyond the bounds of their previous work.” – Pitchfork, 9.0 Best New Music
“One of the US’s best bands.” – The Guardian
“Instantly satisfying, but its charms and mysteries will resound for years.” – Uncut, 9/10
“An amorphous, stylistically diverse record you must savour and digest slowly, an album of admirable ambition and a mantra worth repeating until its mysteries are revealed.” – MOJO, ★★★★
“With Dragon… we glimpse Big Thief’s magic in action… it’s a lived experience, open-hearted and spontaneous, that pushes the boundaries of what the four, between them, can create.”
– Loud And Quiet, 9/10
“This is unfussy music born of friendship, conviviality, good times. And it is utterly charming.”
– The Times’ Album of the Week ★★★★
“This band can do anything.” – The Evening Standard’s Album of the Week ★★★★
“Wonderful… their most varied and expansive record to date.” – The Observer ★★★★
Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
1. Change
2. Time Escaping
3. Spud Infinity
4. Certainty
5. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
6. Sparrow
7. Little Things
8. Heavy Bend
9. Flower of Blood
10. Blurred View
11. Red Moon
12. Dried Roses
13. No Reason
14. Wake Me up to Drive
15. Promise Is a Pendulum
16. 12,000 Lines
17. Simulation Swarm
18. Love Love Love
19. The Only Place
20. Blue Lightning
Big Thief – ‘Vampire Empire’ / ‘Born For Loving You’ 7”
is out October 20th via 4AD / Remote Control Records
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