Big Thief have shared a video for ‘Words’ from their new album ‘Double Infinity’
Recorded live at Power Station with collaborators including Laraaji and June McDoom.
Big Thief have released a new video for ‘Words’, taken from their sixth studio album ‘Double Infinity’, which arrived last week. The clip marks the band’s first non-live performance music video since 2017’s ‘Mythological Beauty’ and coincides with the start of their Somersault Slide 360 Tour next week.
Directed by Adrianne Lenker’s brother, Noah Lenker, the video accompanies a track that sits alongside recent singles ‘Grandmother [ft. Laraaji]’, ‘Los Angeles’, ‘All Night All Day’ and ‘Incomprehensible’.
Noah Lenker says: “The finite meanings of our words encompass the boundaries of how we perceive reality. Yet… there are times when cosmic bubbles breach through our spirit’s wellspring and issue forth other sensations—glimmers of possibilities, ineffable vastness, and mystagogic connectedness beyond the horizon where language dissolves. Do we wield words, or do our words wield us? And how may we reshape and shape anew words that will better aid us? Sometimes we must play with the letters of our alphabet soup, sometimes we must combust our pencils to then scribe novel glyphs of empowerment into the sands of time.”
Directed by Adrianne Lenker’s brother, Noah Lenker, the video accompanies a track that sits alongside recent singles ‘Grandmother [ft. Laraaji]’, ‘Los Angeles’, ‘All Night All Day’ and ‘Incomprehensible’.
Noah Lenker says: “The finite meanings of our words encompass the boundaries of how we perceive reality. Yet… there are times when cosmic bubbles breach through our spirit’s wellspring and issue forth other sensations—glimmers of possibilities, ineffable vastness, and mystagogic connectedness beyond the horizon where language dissolves. Do we wield words, or do our words wield us? And how may we reshape and shape anew words that will better aid us? Sometimes we must play with the letters of our alphabet soup, sometimes we must combust our pencils to then scribe novel glyphs of empowerment into the sands of time.”
The band’s upcoming run includes their first US shows in over a year, with headline dates at Berkeley’s The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Bowl, Boston’s MGM Music Hall, New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, and a debut Mexico date at Teatro Metropolitan.
A European and UK leg follows next spring, featuring some of their largest headline shows to date.
The dates read:
SEPTEMBER
17 Channel 24, Sacramento, CA, USA
19 McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, OR, USA
21 Outlaw Field, Boise, ID, USA
22 Twilight Concert Series, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
25 The Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, USA
27 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, USA
28 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego, CA, USA
OCTOBER
1 Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City, Mexico
20 State Theatre, Portland, ME, USA
21 MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, MA, USA
22 The Met, Philadelphia, PA, USA
24 The Anthem, Washington, DC, USA
25 Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills, NY, USA
29 Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC, USA
30 The Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, USA
31 Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, LA, USA
NOVEMBER
3 Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK, USA
4 The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX, USA
5 Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park, Austin, TX, USA
7 White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX, USA
APRIL
8 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
9 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
10 B-K, Stockholm, Sweden
11 K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
13 Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
14 E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
17 L’Olympia, Paris, France
18 L’Olympia, Paris, France
21 AFAS Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
24 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
25 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
29 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland
MAY
27 Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK
30 Barrowland Balloom, Glasgow, UK
JUNE
2 Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
3 den Atelier, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
14 Magnolia, Milan, Italy
15 Tonhalle, Munich, Germany
16 Große Freiheit 36, Hamburg, Germany
A European and UK leg follows next spring, featuring some of their largest headline shows to date.
The dates read:
SEPTEMBER
17 Channel 24, Sacramento, CA, USA
19 McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, OR, USA
21 Outlaw Field, Boise, ID, USA
22 Twilight Concert Series, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
25 The Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, USA
27 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, USA
28 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego, CA, USA
OCTOBER
1 Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City, Mexico
20 State Theatre, Portland, ME, USA
21 MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, MA, USA
22 The Met, Philadelphia, PA, USA
24 The Anthem, Washington, DC, USA
25 Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills, NY, USA
29 Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC, USA
30 The Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, USA
31 Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, LA, USA
NOVEMBER
3 Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK, USA
4 The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX, USA
5 Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park, Austin, TX, USA
7 White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX, USA
APRIL
8 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
9 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
10 B-K, Stockholm, Sweden
11 K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
13 Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
14 E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
17 L’Olympia, Paris, France
18 L’Olympia, Paris, France
21 AFAS Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
24 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
25 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
29 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland
MAY
27 Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK
30 Barrowland Balloom, Glasgow, UK
JUNE
2 Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
3 den Atelier, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
14 Magnolia, Milan, Italy
15 Tonhalle, Munich, Germany
16 Große Freiheit 36, Hamburg, Germany
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