There’s a sense, right from the first sound, that Double Infinity isn’t beginning so much as appearing. The music manifests like smoke rings, forming, twisting, returning, dissolving each note imbued of its own impermanence. Big Thief have always played close to the edge of dream cycles and waking senses, but here that threshold becomes the album itself. What we’re hearing is awareness taking shape, direction emerging from a field of half-remembered states.
Adrianne Lenker’s presence throughout isn’t emotional in the conventional sense. It’s observational, steady, awake, without judgment. She sings from within the sound, not above it. The band moves around her like particles finding pattern, gravity arising from drift. This isn’t about catharsis or release; it’s about remaining inside awareness long enough for form to reveal itself.
As the record unfolds, that awareness thickens into melody, rhythm, and subtle structure. “Los Angeles” marks the moment when things begin to cohere, consciousness leading the dream forward. But even then, the songs remember their origins: they hold stillness inside motion, silence within sound. Each track feels like a small act of remembering, of creation happening again and again, but in real time.
By the final stretch, the listener’s been trained to stop expecting and just allow what is to happen next. The satisfaction isn’t in resolution, but recognition of presence as form, of awareness as the true composer. It’s Huxley’s Doors of Perception rendered in folk-rock textures: life emerging from the primordial ooze, radiant and unhurried.
🎧 Now available at Tom’s Record Shop → Double Infinity Green Vinyl LP.