Album Review: Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
“This lightly psychedelic sheen is teased out across DNWMIBIY, as Lenker transfigures, transforms and travels through time. On “Sparrow”, she takes us back to a vibrantly alive vision of the Garden of Eden, singing sweetly about Eve eating the forbidden apple, before her voice doubles in delectable horror as Adam cries out at the transgression: “she has the poison inside her / she talks to snakes and they guide her”. Eleven tracks later on “Simulation Swarm” she jumps us into the future with head-spinningly knotty poetry about online wars and virtual intimacy. In between and all around these songs, the possibilities are limitless.”
My favourite band in the world released a 20-track album and I did my best to capture its brilliance in my review.
