In support of Big Thief’s latest album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, last night the band returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Since their last Colbert performance in 2019, Big Thief’s cult-like following has only intensified. This time around, the band played ‘Simulation Swarm,’ a long-time fan favourite of their live shows that found its official release on DNWMIBIY. The performance flexes all of what makes Big Thief lovable: Adrianne Lenker’s alluring lyrics, the band’s musicianship, and their overall unmatchable chemistry.
Big Thief – ‘Simulation Swarm’
Live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
In conjunction, Big Thief have announced details of a one-off livestream performance with Driift. The global event, filmed in a remote house in snowy Northeastern US, will be a unique opportunity to witness Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia and Max Oleartchik performing their most recent recordings in such an intimate setting. The performance will be premiered worldwide on Thursday 17 March at four different times (see timings below). Tickets can be purchased from drift.link/BigThief.
Big Thief House Show
Thursday 17 March:
Premiere #1: 8pm AEDT / 9am GMT
Premiere #2: 8pm GMT / 3pm EST
Premiere #3: 8pm EST / 5pm PST
Premiere #4: 8pm PST / 11pm EST
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the group’s new 20-track double album, is out now.
ORDER DRAGON NEW WARM MOUNTAIN I BELIEVE IN YOU
The Sun ***** | The Independent ***** | Thank Folk For That ***** | Morning Star *****
Loud And Quiet 9/10 | Clash 9/10 | Gigwise 9/10
The Sunday Times **** | NME **** | Daily Express **** | i Paper **** | The List ****
“One of the US’s best bands.” – The Guardian
“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
“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 ****
“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 ****
Listen to the singles:
‘Simulation Swarm’ ‘No Reason / ‘Spud Infinity’ ‘Time Escaping’
‘Certainty’ ‘Little Things’ / ‘Sparrow’ ‘Change’
BIG THIEF ONLINE:
@ bigthiefmusic
