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Big Thief / Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Album:Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You Collection:General
Artist:Big Thief Added:May 2022
Label:4AD 

A-File Activity
Add Date:2022-06-14 Pull Date:2022-08-16 
Week Ending:Aug 14Aug 7Jul 31Jul 24Jul 17Jul 10Jul 3Jun 26
Airplays:43454341

 Recent Airplay
1.Mar 21, 2023:alien hour & qs
Change
4.Feb 16, 2023:elemenohps & qs
Little Things
2.Mar 18, 2023:Hanging In The Boneyard
Simulation Swarm
5.Jan 14, 2023:Hanging In The Boneyard
Red Moon
3.Feb 18, 2023:Hanging In The Boneyard
Red Moon
6.Jan 13, 2023:KZSU Time Traveler
No Reason

Album Review
Mr. Bones
Reviewed 2022-05-18 
Like its title, DNWMIBIY is both long and whimsical. It contains a poe-purri of styles including Copeland-esq country hoe-down, trip-hop and shoegaze with Adrianne Lenker's warbally, laconic vocals backed by relatively spare instrumentation being the common factor in them (and perhaps the low-fi, Alan Lomax recording style). Ditto for the subject matter which includes vape pens, wild hairdos, potatoes and the damage we are doing to planet Earth. Looking for something playful and a bit zany to play on your indie/Americana show, give 'Dragon a spin.

RIYL: Lord Huron, Courtney Barnett, Barr Brothers

1 Change - low key instrumentation accentuates AL's plaintive vocal styling (slow, 4:56)**
2 Time Escaping - semi-chaotic with plucked strings & exotic sound effects  (med, 3:49)**
3 Spud Infinity - lovely, country toe-tapper opens with fiddle & mouth harp (med , 5:36)**
4 Certainty - fun duet with Buck Meek? over simple bass & snare drum (med, 3:09)*
5 Dragon New... - soft &  ethereal with finger picked guitar & soft synths (soft, 4:44)
6 Sparrow - soft & dreamy homage to birds, builds to lovely harmony (slow , 5:12)*
7 Little Things - fun, mildly chaotic, shoegaze about falling in love in NYC (fast, 5:45)
8 Heavy Bend - (slow, 1:37)
9 Flower of Blood - shoegazey, about violence & intimacy with trippy guitar (med, 4:25)
10 Blurred View - melancholic, trip-hop with distorted guitar (fast , 4:07)
11 Red Moon - drop dead beautiful countryish track with bass & fiddle playing off AL's vocals (fast, 4:23)***
12 Dried Roses - waltz with acoustic guitar & fiddle (slow, 2;36)
13 No Reason - dreampop with nice flute (med, 3:45)
14 Wake Me Up to Drive - soft & bouncy with accordion backing (med, 3:44)
15 Promise Is A Pendulum - vocals over finger picked guitar (slow, 4:13)
16 12,000 Lines - AL's vocals really shine with simple guitar & drums (slow, 2:59)***
17 Simulation Swarm - trippy with interesting distorted guitar in break (med, 4:13)*
18 Love Love Love - ominous, Nick Cave sort of feel (med, 4:14)
19 The Only Place - AL playing finger picked guitar about the apocalypse (med, 3:15)
20 Blue Lightning - fun, country-ish toe tapper with fuzzy guitar (med, 3:52)**

Track Listing
1.Change 
11.Red Moon
2.Time Escaping 
12.Dried Roses
3.Spud Infinity 
13.No Reason
4.Certainty 
14.Wake Me Up To Drive
5.Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 
15.Promise Is a Pendulum
6.Sparrow 
16.12,000 Lines
7.Little Things 
17.Simulation Swarm
8.Heavy Bend 
18.Love Love Love
9.Flower Of Blood 
19.The Only Place
10.Blurred View 
20.Blue Lightning