I’m not one of those people that's like, ‘I can’t listen to my own music,’” says Adrianne Lenker, the ineffably serene frontwoman of Big Thief. “I f***ing love our music! Like, it’s good! It’s so fun to listen to.” She says that Double Infinity, the American indie band’s new record, is “one of my favourite albums ever”. Put these words in the mouth of someone like Liam Gallagher or Drake, and it might sound like excruciating egotism. Coming from Lenker, it just sounds like the truth.
It helps, of course, that she’s bang on the money: Big Thief’s music is fun to listen to – albeit a soulful, bittersweet, altogether quite involved type of fun. After breaking onto the scene with 2016’s Masterpiece, the band rapidly became one of the most respected and consistent forces in modern music. They are the sort of band that inspires ardent fanaticism: dense and vibrant on record, even more so live.
