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Sep 5, 2025Big Thief have done it again. Despite the 2024 departure of their bassist of nine years, Max Oleartchik, the Brooklyn-built indie band’s sixth album sounds like another instant classic.
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Sep 5, 2025These nine perfect songs bristle with life, from the classic melodies to the spring water acoustic riffs to the bustling rhythm section.
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Sep 2, 2025Los Angeles and Double Infinity evoke the stream of consciousness brilliance of R.E.M.'s E-Bow The Letter, while Happy With You finds blissed-out rapture in repetition, All Night All Day is the lusty country song of the year and No Fear achieved Zen enlightenment in dub. [Sep 2025, p.103]
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Sep 8, 2025There's a contentedness here; a playfulness; a willingness to be silly. Instead of shying away from the shadows of life, the band embrace the dark with the light, relishing in it all. It's such a sharp contrast to their earlier work, this sense of acceptance with a knowing smile.
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Sep 5, 2025‘Double Infinity’ is a gloriously satisfying record on which it feels like everything is in its right place; an album that on some songs features up to twelve players, but feels consistently intimate and laid-back.
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Sep 2, 2025A flood of captivating images are buoyed along by the rich musical tapestry and a song that's illustrative of the broader mood: uplifting and open-hearted, looking backwards and forwards without blame or trepidation. [Sep 2025, p.22]
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Sep 12, 2025An album that nearly matches its predecessor in quality while going with an entirely different formula to achieve its greatness.
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Sep 4, 2025Double Infinity seems to relish in the exhilaration and possibility that change brings. Difficult as it is to leave behind a longstanding partnership, a hard reset can be necessary to help ease into the process of moving on, and Big Thief’s fearlessness into the unknown makes this album all the better.
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Sep 4, 2025It does not lose sight of its subject, and goes from strength to strength after each listen. There is no doubt that ‘Double Infinity’ will be a milestone release for Big Thief – for the band’s past, present, and future.
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Sep 4, 2025‘Double Infinity’ is a surprisingly classy blend of two disparate genres, one that pushes the boundaries of what Big Thief sounds like – all while preserving the introspective soul that shot them to fame in the first place.
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Sep 3, 2025Meaningful themes course through the record, much of it concerning universality. In Lenker’s world, our earthly desires are not separate from the sublime. While this duality may be hard to reckon with, she identifies nuances that exist.
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Sep 3, 2025he finished product is just nine songs, but the band covers a ton of ground, both in terms of what it comes up with musically as well as the distance Lenker traverses in her writing.
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Sep 2, 2025The marriage of the band’s reflective songwriting and the soaring experimentation of the arrangement proves to be a winning formula, as exemplified on touching moments like the wistful, chugging “Words,” or the warped album opener, “Incomprehensible.”
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Sep 2, 2025Even if subdued, light folk lullabies channel old-school Big Thief in this journey to homecoming and cosy familiarity.
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Sep 2, 2025These songs convey a sense of the work put into them, a sense of the world outside, but that doesn't undermine Big Thief's ability to lock in on something profound. [Oct 2025, p.78]
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Sep 10, 2025Possibly, other songs and a different order might have made Double Infinity more cohesive, or logical. But then this would have removed its strange, slightly alien aura of zero gravity geometry.
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Sep 4, 2025The resulting psych-folk arrangements are wandering and iterative. These songs are less inclined to tell a story from start to finish than transport you into a space of pure feeling.
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Sep 5, 2025While Double Infinity is an album more likely to wash over listeners than stick, its collaborative, impromptu spirit has infectious qualities of its own, and it's interesting to hear that the band expanded outward instead shrinking with the first departure of a member.
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Sep 4, 2025The tracks feel as easy as they probably were to craft, and while they are pleasantly paced and succinct, the impact of their previous work is lost.
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Sep 2, 2025Double Infinity’s arrangements lamentably don’t match the rawness of Lenker’s lyrics, but as long as the content of the songs remain this nakedly visceral, Big Thief will be fine no matter what musical path it chooses to follow.
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Sep 11, 2025Adrianne Lenker has undoubtedly earned the right to record what she wants, and through both full band and solo releases has established herself as one the century’s preeminent and most prolific songwriters. The indulgences of the former though nearly outweigh her talents towards the end of the album.
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Sep 11, 2025For an album with such a grandiose title, Big Thief’s Double Infinity is bafflingly mediocre — especially since it arrives on the back of a string of good-to-great albums.
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