Big Thief Finds Magic at Every Turn on ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’: Album Review
variety.comEthan Shanfeld “It’s a little bit magic,” Adrianne Lenker chirrs on the title track of Big Thief’s new album, “Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You.” Then, over a weeping pedal steel and her own signature “brush guitar,” her curiosity drifts from a river of morning geese to the birth of a billion planets to a dragon in the phone line.
It’s never revealed what, exactly, “it” is, but throughout this adventurous new double-album, Big Thief dives into both the natural and otherworldly, paving new sounds and textures while uncovering new mysteries.Produced by drummer James Krivchenia, “Dragon” was recorded over four sessions with four different engineers in four distinct locations: upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, the Rocky Mountains and Tucson, Ariz.
With an emphasis on freedom and exploration, the band wandered into some of its most brilliant recordings rather fortuitously.
For example, in the Rockies, after the band first practiced “Change” and readied up for Take 1, engineer Dom Monks said he’d already taped the rehearsal, and it was perfect as is.
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