Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
A sprawling, 22-track double album of warm, cosmic indie folk. Recorded across four distinct studios, it feels like a loose, beautifully unpolished living room session.
A sprawling, 22-track double album of warm, cosmic indie folk. Recorded across four distinct studios, it feels like a loose, beautifully unpolished living room session.
Sprawling masterpiece
A jaw harp boings, a fiddle scrapes, and the tense, bruised shadows of their earlier indie rock dissolve into the dust of a sunlit porch. This sprawling double album trades tight studio anxiety for the loose, creaking warmth of a cabin floorboard. You can hear the hiss of a camp stove and the quiet chatter between takes, transforming their sound into a cosmic, dirt-caked Americana. It is a massive, unpolished shift toward comfort, where even the most fragile, hesitant vocals feel cradled by acoustic guitars and the easy, natural rhythm of friends playing just to keep each other warm.
The songwriting leans heavily into nature, grounding these sprawling songs in the soil, rivers, and cosmic elements that mirror the band's newfound sense of open-hearted wonder.
Critics warmly welcomed this generous, twenty-song collection, widely praising its sonic openness and the effortless charm of its diverse songwriting. Reviewers found the album's sprawling, imaginative nature to be deeply captivating, celebrating how the band elevates modern indie folk through a magical blend of humor, beauty, and spirited experimentation.
“Beloved indie-folk band delivers a 20-song album full of slanted revelation”Read review
“Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is more diverse and fully realized than the band’s past albums”Read review
“Big Thief’s ambitious yet unburdened fifth album is a 20-song epic of kaleidoscopic invention, striking beauty, and wigged-out humor, rambling far beyond the bounds of their previous work”Read review
“A worthy and momentous journey”Read review
“The Brooklyn-formed band’s fifth album explores a broad range of sounds, and comes filled with openness”Read review
“Indefinable, inexplicable, completely brilliant, utterly frustrating; and above and through all of that, absolute masters of their craft”Read review
“In a market saturated with arty folk rockers, Big Thief stand out not by doing things weirder, but by doing them better”Read review
“If Dragon ends up being a fan favorite just for the fact that it has the most songs, the most sounds, and the ability to make you notice a new favorite each time through, that’s a perfectly fine way to view it”Read review
“It’s a universe all its own, clarified a bit more with every listen. As Lenker sings on the title track, over a constellation of guitars and wind chimes, "it’s a little bit magic"”Read review
“Stark balladry meets raucous hoedowns as the US indie rockers offer fresh highlights with every listen”Read review
“It seems unfair to call DNWMIBIY a failed experiment, as it’s loaded with gems - including some of Big Thief’s most free-spirited work to date - however, it lands much more like a showreel than a plotted album”Read review
“Like its title, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You can be a bit much, but Big Thief still crafts the closest thing we get to timeless music these days”Read review
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