"Like some ancient astrologer connecting the stars into constellations to tell epic stories of grief and love, Adrienne Lenker traces her memories into songs that define the vast cosmology of Big Thief. Clothespins strewn on the floor commemorate a blossoming friendship, the kind that brings the warmth of your childhood home rushing back into your heart. The image of a lover drinking a beer in the yard evokes the yearning and resentment you feel for someone who loves you carelessly."
"On Double Infinity, Big Thief aren't honing their sound but expanding it. These songs endeavor to express the purest kind of love, which surely must exist beyond language, beyond all human perception. Language, after all, can often be a tool of repression and obligation. On " Incomprehensible," Lenker laments how it's been used to teach us to hate our bodies, to fear aging, to say what we think we mean, to feel what we believe we're supposed to feel."
Songs trace memories into narratives that define Big Thief's emotional cosmology. Small domestic images—clothespins, a lover drinking a beer—convey complex feelings of friendship, yearning, and resentment. The record expands the band's sound rather than refining a single approach. The music seeks to express a pure form of love that exists beyond language and human perception. Language is presented as a mechanism of repression that teaches self-hatred, fear of aging, and prescribed feeling. The work emphasizes shedding prescriptive living to pursue honest commitment, lasting joy, freedom, and an emotional truth that must be experienced rather than intellectualized.
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