This Place Smells Like Piss and Beer: A Big Thief Thread

[LetMeSleep]

Heard about 13 tracks now and this is good. Def needs more listens.

[epilogue]

First listen impressions:

Certainty
Love Love Love
Red Moon
Simulation Swarm
No Reason
Spud Infinity
Time Escaping
Change
Blue Lightning
The Only Place
Little Things
Heady Blend
12,000 Lines
Dried Roses
Sparrow
Flower of Blood
Wake Me Up To Drive
Dragon new Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Blurred View
Promise is a Pendulum

[Farmer John]

Finally gave it a proper listen. They pretty much already had an Album of the Year with those 8 singles. Time Escaping, Little Things, Certainty...still all-time favs.

Initial favorites of the "new" songs:

Love Love Love
Red Moon
Dried Roses
Heavy Bend

I will be listening to this a lot. Still a lot to digest.

[chewm]

the entire album is perfect but spud infinity might honestly be my favorite, other ones up there are no reason, red moon, blue lightning, title track, simulation swarm, little things & time escaping

also definitely needs to be a double album for me, its just one of these beautiful messes

[liebzz]

I am still listening to this, but what I have heard I have mostly liked. Spud Infinity really impressed me, as has Sparrow, Little Things, Flower of Blood, Red Moon, No Reason and Wake Me Up To Drive, which is how far I’ve made it. Different vibe from the last few days but that’s sort of what I was looking for anyway.

[Farmer John]

Spud Infinity is the one that's been stuck in my head the most.

What's it gonna taaaaake?

[Anders]

Haven’t heard much of Big Thief before. Very interesting first listen to the new album today.

[liebzz]

Listened to the full album this morning. It is very good and really cooks for me when they sort of push past the folk a bit - I am thinking of Time Escaping, Spud Infinity, Sparrow, Little Things, Flower of Blood, Blurred View, Wake Me Up to Drive, Love Love Love, and Blue Lightning. The other stuff is good but it is those songs that will bring me back.

[Farmer John]

This song keeps growing on me

[Captain Termite]

I saw them last week in Boston. Very nice show!

The songwriting prolificness is amazing. They just released a double album and apparently recorded another 20ish songs during those sessions. And then at the show they play what seemed like a brand new song.

[liebzz]

I had just this past weekend revisited the first 6 or 7 songs on that new album and actually was still quite impressed. It’s a long album that may benefit from being heard in chunks rather than trying to power through the whole thing at once.

[Captain Termite]

The bookends of 'Change' and 'Blue Lightning' are great.

[Farmer John]

These songs sound so good here

[dad]

my wife just won tickets to see them through a local npr affiliate. the show isn't until next year in feb, but i'm fuckin' stoked.

[Captain Termite]

my wife just won tickets to see them through a local npr affiliate. the show isn't until next year in feb, but i'm fuckin' stoked.

Cool. I bought tickets in impulse to the New Haven concert, even though I live a few hours away.

[Norah]

missed them this spring, and now i'm upset they're not coming back to Boston next year

[Captain Termite]

missed them this spring, and now i'm upset they're not coming back to Boston next year

Drive down to New Haven, the jewel of mid-coast Connecticutt.

[dad]

missed them this spring, and now i'm upset they're not coming back to Boston next year

Drive down to New Haven, the jewel of mid-coast Connecticutt.

and get a slice of Frank Pepe's.

[liebzz]

Frank Pepe’s is pretty great.

[liebzz]

I do really like this album now revisiting it, but I do wish it was about 5 songs shorter.