The record is this stream-of-consciousness experiment with sound, and he really captured our deeper exploration.

“Dom had this focus on the microphones and capturing the sounds of our instruments, so we were able to dance a lot more,” recalls Lenker. were recorded live-some in just one or two takes-in the studio’s cabin-like main room. “We wanted it to be one big moment of energy with lots of passions,” recalls Krivchenia. To properly capture their bigger ambitions, Big Thief decamped to Bear Creek Studios in rural Washington with longtime friends Andrew Sarlo and Dom Monks. We were thinking about our more ethereal influences, digging deeper into the rawness of our sound as a band, but also simultaneously branching out and stretching up into the sky a little bit more.” “This one kind of started as a swirl of colors. “While we’re on the road, we love to talk about the records we’re gonna make,” says Lenker. Compared to the band’s last two records, U.F.O.F.’ s arrangements are fuller, brighter, and harsher, delivered with the kind of ease that can only come from years of living, working, and creating side-by-side.

It’s the most ambitious music Big Thief have ever made. (the last F stands for “friend”) sounds as expansive as its title implies-a shimmering collection of songs about “the blood and the guts of the human experience and the outward wondering about the mystery of it all,” says Lenker. Lenker’s complicated relationship with her life in perpetual motion is one of the many inspiration points behind Big Thief’s latest record, U.F.O.F.

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