Big Thief - MasterpieceRooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, Big Thiefs music paints, in vivid tones, the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting go, looking into your own eyes through someone elses, and being okay with the inevitability of death, says Adrianne. Masterpiece, Big Thiefs now remastered debut album, is filled with characters and visceral narratives, songs that pivot in the space of a few words. Adriannes voice and guitar

which he recorded at various studios around the country over two very busy years

The Record Store Day re-release ofThe Gold Experienceis an homage to the rare US-only promo version of the album that was released in 1995

San Francisco’s Units were a young breed of dystopic visionaries art space prodigies and trash culture futurists set on reshaping sound for a new age

The government’s on its knees and we might all be out of work tomorrow

Trance like

” This is activism expressed through gorgeous music that breaks down barriers by encouraging that most powerful emotion: connectedness

have been restored and used in the foundations of the sound track and sound design

not only to sold out crowds on their first reappearance on stage

by going off for a walk into wild places

Bruised but very much alive

‰Û÷Subterraneans‰۪ swaps saxophones for Rother-esque kosmiche curlicues and ‰Û÷Weeping Wall‰۪ builds to an appropriate and fearsome (Berlin) wall of noise

Levity takes a different route by utilizing a darker pallet of sounds to create its impressionistic whole