Ground Control Touring

Big Thief

Listen to "Real Love"

The trails that Brooklyn’s Big Thief—Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums)—take us down on Capacity, the band’s highly anticipated second record, are overgrown with the wilderness of pumping souls.

After last year’s stunning Masterpiece, Capacity was recorded in a snowy winter nest in upstate New York at Outlier Studio with producer Andrew Sarlo. The album jumps right into lives marked up and nipped in surprisingly swift fashion. They are peopled and unpeopled, spooked and soothed, regenerating back into a state where they can once again be vulnerable. Lenker’s songs introduce us to a gallery of multifacted women and deal with the complicated matters of identity — at once dangerous and curious, though never unbelievable. Lenker shows us the gentle side of being ripped open. Tricked into love, done in and then witnessing the second act of pulling oneself back together to…

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Royal Headache What's Your Rupture? Listen to "High"
Joyce Manor Epitaph Listen to "Fake I.D."
Tim Darcy Jagjaguwar Listen to "Tall Glass of Water"
Peaking Lights Acid Test
Polvo Merge Records
Monsters of Folk Shangri-La Music Listen to "Say Please"
She & Him Columbia Records Listen to "In the Sun"
Here We Go Magic Secretly Canadian Listen to "Alone But Moving"
Allo Darlin’ Slumberland Listen to "Bright Eyes"
Superchunk Merge Records Listen to "Me & You & Jackie Mittoo"
Girlpool ANTI-
Waxahatchee Merge Records Listen to "La Loose"
Molly Burch Captured Tracks
Whitney Secretly Canadian Listen to "No Woman"
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks Sinderlyn Records Listen to "Don't Look Down"
Arab Strap Chemikal Underground Records
The Love Language Merge Records Listen to "Calm Down"
Hunx And His Punx Hardly Art
Allison Crutchfield and the Fizz Merge Records
Julie Byrne Ba Da Bing Records Listen to "Natural Blue"

Artist News & Press

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Posted 08/15/2017

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Posted 07/11/2017

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Posted 07/05/2017

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Posted 06/21/2017

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Posted 06/12/2017

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