Artist: | Big Thief |
Album: | Capacity |
Released: | US, 9 Jun 2017 |
Genre(s): | Rock, Indie Rock, Folk Rock |
Tracklist:
A1 | Pretty Things | |
Acoustic Guitar, Vocals - Adrianne Lenker | ||
Bass [Upright Bass] - Max Oleartchik | ||
Other [Stairs] - Unknown | ||
Piano - Andrew Sarlo | ||
A2 | Shark Smile | |
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] - Adrianne Lenker | ||
Bass - Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums, Percussion - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar - Buck Meek | ||
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals - Adrianne Lenker | ||
A3 | Capacity | |
Bass [Upright Basses] - Max Oleartchik | ||
Choir - Adrianne Lenker, Andrew Sarlo, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia, Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums, Percussion - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar - Buck Meek | ||
Electric Guitar, Vocals, Other [French Press] - Adrianne Lenker | ||
A4 | Watering | |
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] - Adrianne Lenker, Zoë Lenker | ||
Bass - Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums, Percussion - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar - Buck Meek | ||
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Voice [Voices] - Adrianne Lenker | ||
A5 | Coma | |
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] - Buck Meek, Mt. Davidson | ||
Bass - Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums, Percussion, Synthesizer [Casio SK-1] - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Voice [Voices] - Adrianne Lenker | ||
B1 | Great White Shark | |
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] - Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Mt. Davidson | ||
Bass - Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums, Percussion, Bells, Voice [Howls], Acoustic Guitar - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar - Buck Meek | ||
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals - Adrianne Lenker | ||
Voice [Howls] - Erin Birgy | ||
B2 | Mythological Beauty | |
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] - Zoë Lenker | ||
Bass - Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums, Percussion - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar - Buck Meek | ||
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Voice [Voices] - Adrianne Lenker | ||
Trumpet [Mouth Trumpet] - Adrianne Lenker, Andrew Sarlo | ||
B3 | Objects | |
Acoustic Guitar, Organ [Pump Organ] - Mt. Davidson | ||
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] - Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Zoë Lenker | ||
Bass - Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps], Harp [Lap harp] - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar, Handclaps [Claps] - Buck Meek | ||
Electric Guitar, Vocals, Handclaps [Claps] - Adrianne Lenker | ||
Engineer [Basics] - Josh Druckman | ||
B4 | Haley | |
Acoustic Guitar, Synth [Arp Synth], Vocals - Adrianne Lenker | ||
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] - Buck Meek, James Krivchenia, Mt. Davidson | ||
Bass - Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums, Percussion, Handclaps [Clap] - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar - Buck Meek | ||
B5 | Mary | |
Bass Clarinet - Michael Sachs | ||
Organ - James Krivchenia | ||
Piano, Organ [Pump Organ] - Mt. Davidson | ||
Vocals - Adrianne Lenker | ||
B6 | Black Diamonds | |
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] - Adrianne Lenker | ||
Bass - Max Oleartchik | ||
Drums - James Krivchenia | ||
Electric Guitar - Buck Meek | ||
Electric Guitar, Vocals - Adrianne Lenker |
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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, are overgrown with the wilderness of pumping souls. After last year’s stunning Masterpiece, Capacity was recorded in a snowy winter nest in upstate New York at Outlier Studio with producer Andrew Sarlo. The album jumps right into lives marked up and nipped in surprisingly swift fashion. They are peopled and unpeopled, spooked and soothed, regenerating back into a state where they can once again be vulnerable. Lenker’s songs introduce us to a gallery of multifacted 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.”