Abstractions of the personal hint at war, environmental destruction, and the traumas that fuel it. They explore the collective wounds of our Earth. These are political songs without political language. It’s already bare-bones.” Lyrically this can be felt in the poetic blur of the internal and external. “Musically and lyrically, you can’t break it down much further than this. “Two Hands has the songs that I’m the most proud of I can imagine myself singing them when I’m old,” says Adrianne. All but two songs feature entirely live vocal takes, leaving Adrianne’s voice suspended above the mix in dry air, raw and vulnerable as ever. The songs were recorded live with almost no overdubs. Two Hands had to be completely different - an album about the Earth and the bones beneath it. The 105-degree weather boiled away any clinging memories of the green trees and wet air of the previous session. session, the southwestern Sonic Ranch studio was chosen for its vast desert location. In sharp contrast to the wet environment of the U.F.O.F. Where U.F.O.F.layered mysterious sounds and effects for levitation, Two Hands grounds itself on dried-out, cracked desert dirt. Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James Krivchenia) set up their instruments as close together as possible to capture their most important collection of songs yet. 30 miles west of El Paso, surrounded by 3,000 acres of pecan orchards and only a stone’s throw from the Mexican border, Big Thief (a.k.a. Now it was time to birth U.F.O.F.’s sister album – “the earth twin” – Two Hands. – “the celestial twin” – days before in a cabin studio in the woods of Washington State. Big Thief had only just finished work on their 3rd album, U.F.O.F.
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