Big Thief Announce New Album Double Infinity: Listen to “Incomprehensible”

For a while, Big Thief churned out albums consistently—sometimes multiple LPs within a year. But this changed after the band released their critically acclaimed 2022 record, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. Though its members didn’t leave fans hanging, instead putting out solo records like Adrianne Lenker‘s Bright Future from last year and Buck Meek’s Haunted Mountain from 2023, we were hopeful that the Big Thief lull would end soon. Thankfully, the band has now announced its sixth album: Double Infinity, slated to arrive on September 5 via 4AD. The record was produced, engineered and mixed by Dom Monks, who also worked on many of the band’s previous LPs.

Big Thief invited other musicians to collaborate with the band for Double Infinity, including Joshua Crumbly on bass; Mikey Buishas (who also shot the album cover for Lenker’s solo debut Hours Were The Birds) on keys and contributing live tape loops; Mikel Patrick Avery, Jon Nellen and Caleb Mitchel adding percussion; Adam Brisbin on guitar; Hannah Cohen, June McDoom, and Alena Spanger singing backing vocals; and the legendary 82-year-old New Age multi-instrumentalist Laraaji creating drones with zither and an iPad, as well as contributing additional vocals.

The latter’s influence is felt in the lead single, “Incomprehensible,” which combines New Age-inspired touches with the folk rock sound Big Thief is known for, featuring sparkling chimes and atmospheric synths. The track, which also opens the album, features Lenker embracing the beauty of life and transforming with age, finding comfort in the mystifying nature of mortality rather than being put off by it. “I’m afraid of getting older, that’s what I’ve learned to say/Society has given me the words to think that way/The message spirals, don’t get saggy, don’t get gray/But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder,” she sings.