With 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You,' Big Thief have pulled off the neat trick of becoming at once more rootsy and more cosmic, earthier but somehow less earthbound. Our review
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
might have benefited from a similar release program, but as its dubious title suggests, an over-abundance of whimsical discovery is part of the mission here. “It’s music. It’s music!,” Lenker sings, setting the tone on “Time Escaping,” a vaulting rush of percussive anarchy, lithe melody, and ecstatic word-salad revelation.
That headlong, try-everything ambition is all over the place here. The warm, rollicking, “Spud Infinity” breaks off for an almost comically long Jew’s-harp jam. The almost impossibly pretty jangle-core revery “No Reason” comes with a bell-booted flute solo. The title track gathers itself hazily, like a mystical vision coming into soft focus, with Lenker’s diaphanous whispers refracted through webs of ghostly acoustic playing.
Big Thief revel in the old-fashioned, mythic, and arcane, but their music is at its best when they blur eras and historical map-points. With a drum track that suggests hail on a distant tin roof, the gauzily distorted “Blurred View” lands somewhere between Nineties trip-hop and an Alan Lomax field recording.
An inspired afterthought like that might not have made the album if it was limited to the normal 12 or 13 songs.can feel redundant at points, and might be a little much to wade through unless you already roll waist-deep with the Big Thief experience. Yet the cumulative sense of the open-ended, accidental, communal, and casual is worth any slowish spots along the way. This is a band that deserves the time you lend it.
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