Big Thief Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/big-thief/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:17:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Big Thief Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/big-thief/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite national songs of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/08/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-national-songs-of-2025/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:46:50 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042753 It’s said that music helps keep us sane in insane times, and as we noted at the year’s midway point, that theory has been put to the test in this miserable and exhausting 2025. So to wrap up a year where music either inspired action or helped soundtrack distraction, we’re rounding up our 20 most favorite tracks that have helped ease life’s firehose of chaos and provide a little bit of levity during our long and tiresome days. As is […]

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]]> ‘Double Infinity,’ double duty: This Big Thief listening party is also a fundraiser https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/03/double-infinity-double-duty-this-big-thief-listening-party-is-also-a-fundraiser/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:24:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042292 From Deep Cuts in Medford, to record stores in Seattle and Portland, countless businesses across the country will host Big Thief listening parties tonight (September 3), offering fans the chance to hear the band’s new album Double Infinity before it officially drops Friday. But only one event (that we’re aware of) will flip the party into a fundraiser for the New England Innocence Project. JD Neinast, creator of indie booking organization Sound Kicks Out, has organized a Double Infinity listening […]

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]]> Half-Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 10 favorite national songs of 2025 (so far) https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/03/half-year-in-review-vanyalands-10-favorite-national-songs-of-2025-so-far/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:00:56 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041921 It’s said that music helps keep us sane in insane times, and that theory has really been put to the test in this miserable 2025. So as we hit the half-way point of the year, we’re rounding up the new and notable singles that have helped distract from the chaos and provide a little bit of levity during our days. True to form, the bangers we’re feeling the most this year span a spectrum of genres, from SpiritWorld’s hellacious acres […]

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]]> The V List: Five of our favorite national tracks from June 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/06/30/the-v-list-five-of-our-favorite-national-tracks-from-june-2025/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:13:50 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041923 Editor’s Note: Anyone who says there isn’t good music coming out these days — and quite literally, every day — simply isn’t paying attention. Vanyaland’s compilation feature The V List highlights the best in new music, both homegrown and national, over the past month, pulling together the sounds that have soundtracked the website in recent weeks. It’s all the stuff we’re bumping here at Vanyaland HQ, one new bop at a time. Nuovo Testamento, ‘Picture Perfect’ Back in the long-gone n’ lawless Allston days of the mid- to […]

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]]> Big Thief reconnect a deeper sense on ‘Incomprehensible’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/06/16/big-thief-reconnect-a-deeper-sense-on-incomprehensible/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:32:48 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041858 Back in the fall of 2019, when Big Thief released their fourth album Two Hands, it seemed like a lot of folx brought the generation-defining “Not” with them back home for Thanksgiving, using the song to soundtrack whatever it was we were all facing with our families as our former lives crossed with the current. New single “Incomprehensible,” released earlier this month and the first offering from Double Infinity, out in September via 4AD, emerges with a similar feeling of […]

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]]> Big Thief find a path towards pure essence by escaping a ‘Vampire Empire’ https://vanyaland.com/2023/07/19/big-thief-find-a-path-towards-pure-essence-by-escaping-a-vampire-empire/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:22:30 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10035458 It turns out Big Thief are no longer merely interested in crafting era-defining indie-folk. Now the Brooklyn band have moved on to naming songs that will inspire countless future band monikers. That run begins today (July 19) with “Vampire Empire,” and chances are the Bandcamp url will get snagged by the time the splashy track concludes its 3:12 runtime. Of course, the track’s intuitive depth runs far deeper than its title. “For me,” says vocalist Adrianne Lenker in a statement, “it’s about […]

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]]> Big Thief extend soundcheck invite to teachers and students https://vanyaland.com/2023/01/09/big-thief-extend-soundcheck-invite-to-teachers-and-students/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:26:27 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032965 The music of Big Thief will one day be taught in classrooms (hell, we’d take an entire course based solely around the lyrics of “Not”). Until that time, the Berklee-educated and Brooklyn-based indie-folk band is bringing the classroom to its shows. Last week, Big Thief invited educators and students across the country to attend the private soundcheck sessions for their upcoming North American tour, which kicks off later this month at Higher Ground in Burlington, Vermont. The band shared the […]

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]]> Big Thief share previously unreleased song ‘Love In Mine’ https://vanyaland.com/2020/04/29/big-thief-share-previously-unreleased-song-love-in-mine/ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:44:59 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10020571 Editor’s Note: Welcome to Quarantainment, Vanyaland’s new series on what to watch, what to hear, and how to deal as the world engages in social distancing to combat the spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19. We’re all at home, we’re all online, and we’re all in this together. #StayTheFHome Big Thief’s recent recording sessions continue to offer new and unexpected gifts. Earlier this month the Brooklyn band posted unreleased demos to Bandcamp to raise money for their touring crew, and today […]

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]]> Big Thief post unreleased music to raise money for tour crew https://vanyaland.com/2020/04/20/big-thief-post-unreleased-music-to-raise-money-for-tour-crew/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:33:39 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10020411 Big Thief have joined The National and others in raising money for their tour crews, a group of people whose careers have been impacted by the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In short: No live music, no work for those work behind the scenes who help make live music happen. The New York band have released a five-song EP via Bandcamp, titled Demos Vol. 1 – Topanga Canyon, CA – Feb 2018, that pulls from songs recorded in the sessions that […]

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]]> Big Thief weather their folk-rock storm on ‘Forgotten Eyes’ https://vanyaland.com/2019/10/02/big-thief-weather-their-folk-rock-storm-on-forgotten-eyes/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:20:53 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10014062 This year has given us a healthy amount of great new music, and Big Thief have certainly contributed their share. Today (October 2), the Brooklyn band has unveiled another new track from their forthcoming Two Hands album, out October 11 via 4AD, the follow-up to May’s U.F.O.F. LP. It’s a weathered folk-rock track called “Forgotten Eyes,” and sets a nice tone for the new record, which Adrianne Lenker says the band are “most proud of,” adding: “I can imagine myself […]

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