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Created and maintained by Alex at the Birdhaus
Twin SceneNo algorithms · No ads · No corporate overlords
Created and maintained by Alex at the Birdhaus
Saturday, August 15 · Surly Brewing Festival Field
Doors 5:00pm · Show 6:00pm
Indie FolkAvant-Jazz
★ racket - The sound of Big Thief’s 2025 album, Double Infinity, put me off at first because this band’s substance has been so bound up in their style. Bassist Max Oleartchik is gone, and with him, coincidentally or not, that sprung a sense of communal creation that was Big Thief’s hallmark. Then I got over myself, and I could hear that all-encompassing wash of reverb not as an airbrushing of idiosyncrasies but just Adrianne Lenker’s latest way of getting cosmic. Unlike most rock mystics, Lenker never comes off like she’s out to start a cult, which is one reason hers is so devoted. Now 34, she acknowledges her insecurities (“I’m afraid of getting older/That’s what I’ve learned to say,” “I’m happy with you/Why do I need to explain myself”) only to let them wash over her with a radical acceptance that appears also to ensure really good sex. Hand me my robe and point me to the compound, kind sister. “Swallow poison, swallow sugar,” Lenker muses. “Sometimes they taste the same.” Like elderberry wine, as another brilliant contemporary of hers might say.
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