Big Thief have enlisted Adrianne Lenker’s brother, Noah, to direct a video for his or her Double Infinity monitor “Phrases.” Within the quick, the band indulges in mystical actions—conjuring, transmogrifying, studying alphabetti spaghetti tea leaves—in varied rural settings, utilizing the ability of phrases to unlock mysteries of the universe. Be part of them beneath.
That is Large Thief’s first music video since 2017’s “Mythological Beauty” to not be primarily based on a dwell efficiency. Right here, Noah Lenker displays on it in an announcement befitting the playful tone of the video itself: “The finite meanings of our phrases embody the boundaries of how we understand actuality. But… there are occasions when cosmic bubbles breach via our spirit’s wellspring and problem forth different sensations—glimmers of potentialities, ineffable vastness, and mystagogic connectedness past the horizon the place language dissolves. Will we wield phrases, or do our phrases wield us? And the way might we reshape and form anew phrases that may higher assist us? Typically we should play with the letters of our alphabet soup, generally we should combust our pencils to then scribe novel glyphs of empowerment into the sands of time.”
Double Infinity got here out final week, the band’s first file for the reason that departure of bassist Max Oleartchik. Learn Emma Madden’s new profile “Big Thief on Love, Politics, and Staying Together.”
