{"id":43681,"date":"2025-09-28T22:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/43681\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:27:06","slug":"its-not-what-you-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/43681\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s not what you expect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Thief<\/a> have revealed\u00a0they have already made their next studio album, telling fans it is \u201cnot what you expect\u201d.<\/p>\n

The New York indie-folk trio released their sixth record \u2018Double Infinity<\/a>\u2019 just three weeks ago (September 5), which included the singles \u2018Incomprehensible<\/a>\u2019, \u2018Grandmother\u2019, \u2018All Night All Day\u2019 and \u2018Los Angeles\u2019.<\/p>\n

Despite such little time having passed, it appears that Big Thief fans might not have to wait very long for the follow-up to \u2018Double Infinity\u2019. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, founding member Buck Meek<\/a> was speaking about the reception for the new album, and teased: \u201cWait till you hear the next one we already made\u2026It\u2019s not what you expect.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be the first time that Big Thief have released albums in quick succession \u2013 \u2018U.F.O.F.\u2019 and \u2018Two Hands\u2019 came out just five months apart in 2019, while their first two records, \u2018Masterpiece\u2019 and \u2018Capacity\u2019, were separated by just 12 months. \u2018Double Infinity\u2019, however, ended a three-year wait following 2022\u2019s \u2018Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

NME awarded \u2018Double Infinity\u2019 four stars<\/a>, writing: \u201cFor everything Big Thief have seemingly lost, there\u2019s so much they\u2019ve gained on this record. \u2018Double Infinity\u2019 is a surprisingly classy blend of two disparate genres, one that pushes the boundaries of what Big Thief sounds like \u2013 all while preserving the introspective soul that shot them to fame in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band are also heading to the UK and Europe on a headline tour, dubbed the \u2018Somersault Slide 360\u2019 tour, in 2026<\/a>, which will include four nights in London\u2019s O2 Academy Brixton on April 23, 24, 25 and 26. They will also play Dublin, Manchester and Glasgow \u2013 see all the dates below and find any remaining tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0NME\u00a0last month, the trio addressed\u00a0parting ways with their original bassist, Max Oleartchik, last year<\/a>\u00a0due to \u201cinterpersonal reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t go into it because they are just very personal, and I don\u2019t think it would serve anyone to publicise those personal reasons,\u201d Adrianne Lenker<\/a> explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hard, and there\u2019s a lot of grief in it, because it was a partnership, in a real, very deep way. It was 10 years of living together and doing everything together, and then it was a really difficult breakup.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really hard to go through that transition, but ultimately, I think it\u2019s better for both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band went on to open up about the experience of readjusting to their new dynamic as a three-piece.<\/p>\n

\u201cFiguring out what the triangle was, after we broke up with Max, I feel, is such a big part of the \u2018Double Infinity\u2019 sound,\u201d said James Krivchenia. \u201cAnd it\u2019s also why we duffed it a couple times, too \u2013 I think just because we were learning. When we did a session as a trio, still pretty far after the breakup, we were like, \u2018This will be great, right?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Thief have revealed\u00a0they have already made their next studio album, telling fans it is \u201cnot what you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,34665,85,131,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-43681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-folk","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-indie","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}