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Masterpiece is a scrapbook of sorts, so it makes sense that the name songs—“Paul,” “Lorraine,” “Randy”—tend to be the strongest. "Paul"twinkles gorgeously through a wistful, dreamy ache of guitars as Lenker recounts a love that could have been if she hadn't been so practical, but "Lorraine" is the kind of scene worth replaying in your mind every night just before dozing off. Atop a lightly strummed acoustic melody, Lenker describes an encounter that under another's less tender eye would seem dirty. But Lenker—seemingly harmonizing with herself—captures the magic of spontaneous attraction, the way some lovers can draw you in through just about anything. Big Thief: ' Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You '". 4AD. November 16, 2021 . Retrieved November 24, 2021. Corrigan, Lizz (May 26, 2016). "Review: Big Thief - Masterpiece". SLUG Magazine . Retrieved December 1, 2021.

a b c Mapes, Jillian (June 6, 2016). "Big Thief: Masterpiece". Pitchfork . Retrieved February 6, 2018. Masterpiece – Single by Big Thief on Apple Music". Apple Music. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021 . Retrieved November 9, 2021. Weiss, Dan (June 1, 2016). "Review: Big Thief Are Halfway to a Low-Strung 'Masterpiece' ". Spin . Retrieved May 7, 2019. More audacious than that, half the song is given over to Lenker’s electric guitar solo – a sceptic-converting firework display derived from the spacious Neil Young school, but wound far more tightly, full of frustration and suffering, angry and ecstatic at the same time. Lenker solos on electric a few more times, an approach that raises the question why Big Thief bother with so much mellifluous Americana filler when they could routinely blow the roof off every venue with Lenker’s gnarly power and Meek’s revolutionary un-playing. a b Lee, Taila (November 15, 2022). "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". Grammys.com . Retrieved November 15, 2022.Found In Sound; An Interview with James Krivchenia of Big Thief". Ghettoblastermagazine.com. November 22, 2017. Archived from the original on September 19, 2019 . Retrieved August 12, 2019. For all except noted: "Big Thief albums". Australian Recording Industry Association / Australian-charts . Retrieved March 8, 2022. Little Things": "Vinsældarlisti v36 11092021" (PDF). RÚV (in Icelandic). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 22, 2021 . Retrieved September 30, 2022. On September 7, 2021, the band released a song "Certainty" [29] followed by another song "Change", on October 6. They also announced plans for a North American tour in 2022. [30]

Later that night, the band huddled as they do before every show. Lenker says a mantra to herself each night such that she delivers an honest performance. "I'm ... setting an intention of, 'Help me to step aside from this and allow what's there to be, and not try to force it to be anything.'" In July 2023, the band released the single "Vampire Empire", [40] which they had debuted in a live performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier in February of the same year. [41] Band members [ edit ] DeVille, Chris (July 19, 2023). "Big Thief – "Vampire Empire" ". Stereogum . Retrieved July 20, 2023. Weiss, Dan (June 1, 2016). "Review: Big Thief Are Halfway To A Low-Strung 'Masterpiece' ". Spin . Retrieved June 10, 2022. Rodríguez, Juan Edgardo (June 5, 2016). "Big Thief: Masterpiece". PopMatters . Retrieved May 7, 2019.

Terry, Josh (October 11, 2019). "Big Thief's 'Two Hands' Finds a Radical Strength in Kindness". Noisey. Vice . Retrieved June 10, 2022. Takeaways from the 2020 Grammy Nominations". Pitchfork. November 20, 2019 . Retrieved November 21, 2019.