Big Thief announces first album as a trio, Double Infinity

The indie outfit also shared a new single, "Incomprehensible," today.

By Emma Keates  |  June 3, 2025 | 1:40pm
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Big Thief is back with a new song called “Incomprehensible,” but the excitement around their sixth studio album is easy to understand. Today, the band announced Double Infinity, their first LP since 2022’s well-loved Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. It’s also their first EP as a trio since parting with their bassist, Max Oleartchik, last summer, lending some additional intrigue. 

The recording process also sounds not quite incomprehensible, but at least out of the ordinary. With a large group of collaborators—including Alena Spanger, Caleb Michel, Hannah Cohen, Jon Nellen, Joshua Crumbly, June McDoom, Laraaji, Mikel Patrick Avery, and Mikey Buishas—the band recorded live “for nine hours a day, tracking together—simultaneously—improvising arrangements and making collective discoveries,” as they wrote in a press release, per Stereogum. The whole process took three weeks.

You can listen to one of the tracks it yielded below. It’s clear that a lot of different minds contributed to “Incomprehensible,” but the result—a lush, busy arrangement that weaves in and out of Adrianne Lenker’s vocal track—is greater than the sum of its parts. It also features some great new Lenker lyrics. “So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair / Let me dance in front of people without a care / Let me be naked alone, with nobody there / With mis-matched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear,” she sings in the meditation on aging. 

Double Infinity follows solo music from all three members of the band. Since Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, Lenker has released Bright Future and Live at Revolution Hall, Buck Meek has released Haunted Mountain, and James Krivchenia just released Performing Belief. The band also released an EP of previously unheard material to support wildfire relief in February. 

Check out the Double Infinity tracklist below. The album releases September 5.

  1. “Incomprehensible”
  2. “Words”
  3. “Los Angeles”
  4. “All Night All Day”
  5. “Double Infinity”
  6. “No Fear”
  7. “Grandmother [ft. Laraaji]”
  8. “Happy With You”
  9. “How Could I Have Known”

 
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