Regardless of the haunted fraglity of much of their music, Big Thief continue to race forwards creatively at a breakneck pace. Since 2018 there have been three albums by the New York-based quartet (including last year’s 20-song epic Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You), plus three solo albums from singer Adrianne Lenker, and this is guitarist Buck Meek’s third solo work too.
The band have made much of their status as a close-knit democracy of friends, which can’t be easy when Lenker and Meek are divorced, so you’d expect their solo material to be the place where egos can be permitted to swell. But even here, though he must enjoy the final say, the Texan remains in service to the work of others.
