U.F.O.F.
| Big Thief
U.F.O.F.
U.F.O.F. is the third studio album by the American band Big Thief, released through 4AD on May 3, 2019. The album was recorded at Bear Creek Studio, a secluded studio with lush nature surroundings in Woodinville, Washington. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The third album from the Brooklyn quartet is an intimate and surreal experience, a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level.
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Rolling Stone
The folk-rock band’s third LP turns vulnerability into a strength.
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SPIN
Big Thief Tune in to a Higher Frequency on the Unearthly U.F.O.F.
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The Nation
Big Thief’s music is both immediate and elusive. Wrapped into U.F.O.F.’s delicate folds are fragility and resilience, love and trauma, nature and ether, enclosure and space, light and dark.
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Stereogum
A band coming into their own.
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Get Alternative
The magic of this record is the way it draws you into something it’s certainly not sure of itself.
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The Guardian
Hypnotic soft guitars mask uneasiness on the New York four-piece’s third album: it really packs a punch.
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Paste Magazine
On U.F.O.F., Big Thief embrace their more subtle and mystical sides while capturing a wider array of landscapes.
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Pop Matters
'U.F.O.F.' Embraces the Unknown and the Unknowable.
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Glide Magazine
BIG THIEF CREATE SUBTLEST AND MOST COMPLEX WORK YET WITH ‘U.F.O.F.’
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Post Trash
The work of Big Thief speaks to us in a radical way: there is renewal, fresh air and the immediacy of one of the most sincere sounding bands currently around.
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The Line of Best Fit
Big Thief’s U.F.O.F. is another emotional bruiser from Adrianne Lenker and co.
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Under the Radar Mag
The balance of nature achieved.
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The Current
Big Thief's new album, U.F.O.F., is both one of the most immediately striking albums of the year.
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Loud and Quiet
There’s a sense that the rest of the group have locked into a rock-solid groove with Lenker regardless of which avenue she chooses to go down stylistically.
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Soundblab
Not meant for the casual listener, U.F.O.F. is a gallery of twelve perfectly painted vignettes in search of an audience to hold them dear.
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Uproxx
Big Thief Embrace Their Quietly Strange Side On The Striking New Album, ‘U.F.O.F.’
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The Skinny
Big Thief lead us gently from the beaten path and into the unknown with U.F.O.F., a hypnotic third offering that showcases their courage and chemistry.
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Consequence of Sound
On this album, Big Thief shied away from themes of childhood and family and steered into a more dreamlike, terrestrial cut that seems to expand into unknowns and the fantastical.
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Clash Music
A folk noir record that weaves a tapestry of spiritually intense stories.
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The Wall Street Journal
The group’s second album of the year is suffused with empathy and vivid imagery.
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Treble Zine
U.F.O.F. is a very good, dreamy and hypnotic album.
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impact89fm
Big Thief could’ve rested on the laurels of the praise of their pinnacle work, but apparently that’s not how they operate.
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ABC News
Big Thief's 'U.F.O.F.' is hauntingly beautiful.
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Alt Citizen
Adrianne Lenker writes the songs that have always been with us.
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musicOMH
UFOF is a natural, welcome progression, and one that you likely won’t want to tear yourself away from.
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Record Collector Mag
UFOF finds Big Thief confident enough in their powers to hold their secrets close and let you come to them.
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GoldenPlec
A must for folk buffs and worm enthusiasts alike.
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WRBB Radio
Big Thief prove they are the best working indie band on ‘U.F.O.F’.
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The Student Playlist
Delivered at a stable pace and focussed on songwriting, ‘U.F.O.F.’ is the most expansive Big Thief album yet.
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Stereoboard
‘U.F.O.F’ is a truly endearing record, and over time the more delicious it is to devour.
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Post to Wire
If they didn’t already, now Big Thief unequivocally have your attention. Lovers of inventive music would be foolish not to join them on their post-folk journey.
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Earbuddy
The band embrace imperfection on their third, and maybe best, record.
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Medium
My favorite album so far this year, and arguably the best album released this year.
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Rock the Body Electric
U.F.O.F. is a warm solar wind of a record from Big Thief.
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The Birn
I would recommend U.F.O.F. to anyone looking for some nice soft tunes, for either a melancholy night, or just something to really dive in deep, listen and appreciate the music.
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Northern Transmissions
This is strange and courageous music.
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American Songwriter
U.F.O.F. is a beautiful album, but one that finds Big Thief a little more willing to push their limits, both in terms of abrasiveness and grace.
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Eleven PDX
Ultimately, the result is an incredible album that deepens with each revisit.
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4 out of 5 Reviews
BIG THIEF’S LATEST IS THEIR FINEST WORK TO DATE, BALANCING IMAGERY AND INSTRUMENTATION IN COMPLEX FASHION, WITHOUT LOSING THEIR CORE SOUND.
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Los Angeles Times
Intimate and expansive.
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Balloon Machine
They’re freer and better than ever before.
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Underscore Part 3
The Brooklyn Four Piece’s Emotive New Record Is an Indie Folk Masterpiece.
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Brown Daily Herald
Big Thief’s new album invokes earthliness.
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All Music
It's a record deserving of such an evocative title, which captures its dreamily impressionistic yet unsettling nature.
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Erie Reader
Musically, it's subdued, filled with ethereal chimes, a majority of the songs being marked by rhythmically similar fingerpicking patterns. It's a simple sound and a somber rumination, a haunting lullaby made into a beautiful record.
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Relix
To know of Big Thief is to know the band intimately—there isn’t any room for casual acquaintance with the New York act’s stunningly beautiful, achingly personal rock micro-epics.
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WFUV
A beautifully balanced mix of loud and quiet sounds.
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Inquirer
Stirring and absorbing folk-rock.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
It’s not the most immediate album, but U.F.O.F. is stunning, a record of almost limitless depth and character.
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Positively Underground
Lenker’s nebulous, androgynous vocal approach bends into all these spaces making a their singular sound rife with life.
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The Needle Drop
U.F.O.F. is mostly listenable—if a bit derivative—indie folk with a few flashes of brilliance sprinkled throughout the tracklist.
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Long Live Vinyl
Rootsy charm, unfurling steadily and displaying the sort of organic telepathy that only the finest bands are blessed with.
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Sputnik Music
Superb.
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Yahoo!
Big Thief strike again.
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Doubtful Sounds
If they didn’t already, now Big Thief unequivocally have your attention. Lovers of inventive music would be foolish not to join them on their post-folk journey.
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Recommended Listen
Now that they’ve expanded the map and widened their eyes beyond what we see before us, they simply sound like their own adventure.
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LONDON IN STEREO
Their power is real, go and watch Big Thief, you will be amazed by what they can do.
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Too Many Blogs
These songs are emotive, evocative vignette’s of lived experience made rosy by their apparent banality and made vast by their absurdity.
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WERS
BIG THIEF SHOOTS FOR THE STARS WITH “U.F.O.F”.
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Stars and Scars
If you needed any proof that the album format can still deliver a captivating experience, UFOF provides no short supply of evidence. Do yourself a favor and get lost in it while you can.
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For Folk's Sake
In general, this is not an immediate album, being based on quite frail, but substantial melodic ideas, but it will be a point of reference for a long time for contemporary Americana.
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No Depression
Big Thief finds comfort in the existential, the unknown.
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Sounds & Books
High time for everyone to respond positively and to accompany the band from Brooklyn on their journey. There can hardly be a better reason than the new, outstanding album.
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mxdwn Music
This album is wonderful and is well worth the listen.
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Stack
On their third album, Brooklyn quartet Big Thief once again stun with a collection of delicate songs offset by a quiet devastation.
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Black Squirrel Radio
This album is still undeniably Big Thief — a portrait of joy and struggle in rural America, in the form of three-and-a-half minute love songs.
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The Wee Review
Brooklynites’ third album is nice, but needs to let rip more.
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Renaissance People's Media
Perhaps the greatest strength of the album is its ability to constantly surprise in regards to how close it is to the listener.
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Alt Revue
This album has a little bit of everything, there are songs that lean a little more folk, a little more Americana, and a bit more abstract.
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Bernard Zuel
It is acoustic and electric, with the latter mostly in undertones and atmospheres, creating an ambience which leans to blurry, the backgrounds less about distinction than mood.
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The Ringer
Big Thief captures [a] sense of strange, Spielbergian awe.
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Secret Meeting
U.F.O.F is a huge statement of intent: a genuine classic album that not only sets the four piece apart from their contemporaries, but confirms them as one of the most uniquely exciting bands America has ever produced. Yes, it’s that good.
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The Fountain
U.F.O.F. is an album as hauntingly beautiful as it is straight up haunted, as inviting and warm as it is seriously creepy.
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The Thin Air
U.F.O.F. is a passionate display of hope and resilience.
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God Is in the T.V.
Thematically U.F.O.F invites you into its world, a most welcome visitation of parred back effortlessly magical songwriting.
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Under the Radar
Lush.
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The Fader
It’s Big Thief’s most challenging body of work to date, as well as their most enchanting.
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