Double Infinity
Double Infinity Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Big Thief After the stylistic sprawl of 2022’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You , Big Thief’s sixth album finds the group bringing their increasingly distinctive sound closer to the vest in a literal sense: Double Infinity is their first album as a proper trio, following the departure of bassist Max Oleartchik. As a result, these nine songs—woolly, warm, and with frissons of electricity coursing through their veins—capture Big Thief in a state of ragged intimacy, every melodic turn and shift in instrumentation expanding and contracting like a pair of lungs. The rumbling drum fills and strummy framework of “Words” seemingly stretch for miles on end, while the nearly seven-minute “No Fear” carries a faint gothiness in its inky guitar lines that drip around Adrianne Lenker’s bruising vocals. More so than on any other Big Thief album to date, rock music is the name of the game here; even “Grandmother,” which features ambi...