BIG THIEF
Aiken Promotions presents
BIG THIEF
plus support CLÉMENTINE MARCH TIMES: SUPPORT 8:30, MAIN ACT 9:15
*** SECOND SHOW ADDED DUE TO DEMAND: Sunday 1 April 2018 ***
Big Thief will bring their live show to Whelan’s for two nights next year: Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April 2018 in support of their latest album,Capacity.
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 second record, are overgrown with the wilderness of pumping souls. After last year’s stunning debut album Masterpiece, Capacity
Lenker’s songs introduce us to a gallery of multifaceted 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 prepare for it to all happen again, but this time to a sturdier soul, one who is going to take the punches better than ever before and deal some jabs and roundhouses of their own. The album is thick with raw, un-doctored beauty: most of the songs on Capacity were played for the first time in the studio and were recorded the same day.
“There is a darker darkness and a lighter light on this album,” Lenker explains. “The songs search for a deeper level of self-acceptance, to embrace the world within and without. I think Masterpiece began that process, as a reaction from inside the pain, whereas I feel Capacity examines the pain from the outside.”
‘…a remarkable record, one that proves that Big Thief are not a one-trick pony, they are the full circus. There are bands with stories to share, wounds to rub salt into, loves to relive, but few address every moment with such adroit care as Big Thief. You can hear it as they revel in the darkest moments, rejoices in the later lightness, and fumble around for a sense of closure. Capacity is human, which seems to be all Big Thief desire.’ – PITCHFORK