BIG THIEF announce they’ll be coming to New Zealand for two shows this December in Auckland and Wellington!
One of the most talked-about indie acts today, the critically acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated band will be touring in support of their latest album released in February, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You bringing their intimate shows to Auckland’s Powerstation on December 3 followed by Wellington’s Opera House on December 4.
Tickets go on sale 12pm Friday March 25 from livenation.co.nz
My Live Nation members can access tickets first during the presale at 12pm Thursday March 24 until 11am Friday March 25.
BIG THIEF
NEW ZEALAND 2022
POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND
SATURDAY DECEMBER 3
OPERA HOUSE, WELLINGTON
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4
TICKETS ON SALE 12PM, FRIDAY MARCH 25
Live Nation pre-sale: 12pm Thursday March 24 – 11am Friday March 25
Brooklyn-born Big Thief – share their new sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia desired in 2020, the band decided to write and record a rambling account of growth as individuals, musicians, and chosen family over 4 distinct recording sessions.
In Upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, The Rocky Mountains, and Tucson, Arizona, Big Thief spent 5 months in creation and came out with 45 completed songs. The most resonant of this material was edited down into the 20 tracks that make up DNWMIBIY, a fluid and adventurous listen. The album was produced by drummer James Krivchenia who initially pitched the recording concept for DNWMIBIY back in late 2019 with the goal of encapsulating the many different aspects of Adrianne’s songwriting and the band onto a single record.
In an attempt to ease back into life as Big Thief after a long stretch of Covid-19 related isolation, the band met up for their first session in the woods of upstate New York. It took a while for the band to realign and for the first week of working in the studio, nothing felt right. After a few un-inspired takes the band decided to take an ice-cold dip in the creek behind the house before running back to record in wet swimsuits. That cool water blessing stayed with Big Thief through the rest of the summer and many more intuitive, recording rituals followed.
When Max’s mom asked on a phone call what it feels like to be back together with the band playing music for the first time in a year, he described to the best of abilities: “Well it’s like, we’re a band, we talk, we have different dynamics, we do the breaths, and then we go on stage and suddenly it feels like we are now on a dragon. And we can’t really talk because we have to steer this dragon.”
The attempt to capture something deeper, wider, and full of mystery, points to the inherent spirit of Big Thief. Traces of this open-hearted, non-dogmatic faith can be felt through previous albums, but here on Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You lives the strongest testament to its existence.
“One of the things that bonds us together as a band is pure magic. I think we all have the same guide and none of us have ever spoken what it is because we couldn’t name it, but somehow, we are all going for the same thing, and when we hit it… we all know it’s it, but none of us to this day, or maybe ever, will be able to articulate in words what the ‘it’ is. Something about it is magic to me.” – Adrianne Lenker
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
