Last night, Big Thief appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert giving a gripping performance of ‘Not’, the lead single from Two Hands.
WATCH BIG THIEF PERFORM ‘NOT’ ON THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT
Two Hands – “the earth twin” follows the May release of U.F.O.F. – “the celestial twin” – a universally beloved album which garnered a 9.2 score from Pitchfork, who called it “a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level.” While some have looked on in wonderment at this prolific band’s decision to release two substantial releases in the same year, the decision was, as with every decision the band makes, eminently intentional and deeply considered. Two Hands is a partner to U.F.O.F. In Stereogum’s recent cover story on the band, Adrianne Lenker beautifully describes how the two albums connect and how they differ: “U.F.O.F. is meant to be more focused on the immeasurable, sort of suspended ethereal playing with textures and colors and layering in the production, staring out into the abyss. And Two Hands is more the micro, zooming into the blood and tissue and guts of being a human, the raw, bare, naked bones, not much layering, capturing just our performances in the room, just very dry, no reverbs, just skin and flesh and human, finite, physical. But I think each of them contains parts of the others.”
LISTEN TO TWO HANDS
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