Last week, Big Thief released Double Infinity, their sixth studio album. Today, they release the mind-altering, giddy, beautiful, and just deeply “Big Thief” video for one of the album’s standout tracks, ‘Words’. It’s the band’s first non-live performance music video since 2017’s ‘Mythological Beauty’ video.

The video was directed by Adrianne’s brother, Noah Lenker, who comments: “The finite meanings of our words encompass the boundaries of how we perceive reality. Yet… there are times when cosmic bubbles breach through our spirit’s wellspring and issue forth other sensations—glimmers of possibilities, ineffable vastness, and mystagogic connectedness beyond the horizon where language dissolves. Do we wield words, or do our words wield us? And how may we reshape and shape anew words that will better aid us? Sometimes we must play with the letters of our alphabet soup, sometimes we must combust our pencils to then scribe novel glyphs of empowerment into the sands of time.”

Watch the video for ‘Words’ HERE or via the player below.

Double Infinity is Big Thief’s sixth studio album and features the singles ‘Grandmother [ft. Laraaji]’, ‘Los Angeles’, ‘All Night All Day’ and ‘Incomprehensible’. Recorded last winter at the Power Station, New York City, for three solid weeks the trio would ride bicycles on frozen streets between Brooklyn and Manhattan, meeting in studio’s warm wood-panelled room. Together with a community of musicians (Alena Spanger, Caleb Michel, Hannah Cohen, Jon Nellen, Joshua Crumbly, June McDoom, Laraaji, Mikel Patrick Avery, Mikey Buishas) they would play for nine hours a day, tracking together – simultaneously – improvising arrangements and making collective discoveries. The album was recorded live with minimal overdubs. Double Infinity was produced, engineered and mixed by longtime Big Thief collaborator Dom Monks.

Big Thief embark on the first leg of their Somersault Slide 360 Tour in support of Double Infinity next week. The extensive tour – their first US shows in over a year – includes stops at Berkeley’s The Greek Theater, Los Angeles’s The Hollywood Bowl, Boston’s MGM Music Hall, New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, and their first show in Mexico at Teatro Metropolitan. Announced last week, Big Thief’s European and UK leg of the tour will take place next Spring and includes some of the band’s biggest headline shows of their career thus far. Tickets for UK/Europe go on general sale this Thursday 11 September at 10am BST (11am CET). For more information head to the Big Thief website.

BIG THIEF 2025 TOUR DATES
17 September – SACRAMENTO, CA, USA, Channel 24 < SOLD OUT
19 September – TROUTDALE, OR, USA, McMenamins Edgefield < SOLD OUT
21 September – BOISE, ID, USA, Outlaw Field <
22 September – SALT LAKE CITY, UT, USA, Twilight Concert Series < SOLD OUT
25 September – BERKELEY, CA, USA, The Greek Theatre ~
27 September – LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, Hollywood Bowl >
28 September – SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park ~
1 October – MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, Teatro Metropolitan
20 October – PORTLAND, ME, USA, State Theatre √ SOLD OUT
21 October – BOSTON, MA, USA, MGM Music Hall at Fenway √ SOLD OUT
22 October – PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA, The Met √ SOLD OUT
24 October – WASHINGTON, DC, USA, The Anthem √
25 October – FOREST HILLS, NY, USA, Forest Hills Stadium √
29 October – RALEIGH, NC, USA, Red Hat Amphitheater √
30 October – ATLANTA, GA, USA, The Fox Theatre √
31 October – NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA, Saenger Theatre √
3 November – TULSA, OK, USA, Cain’s Ballroom √ SOLD OUT
4 November – DALLAS, TX, USA, The Bomb Factory √
5 November – AUSTIN, TX, USA, Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park √
7 November – HOUSTON, TX, USA, White Oak Music Hall √
8, 9 April – OSLO, NORWAY, Sentrum Scene *
10 April – STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, B-K *
11 April – COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, K.B. Hallen *
13 April – BERLIN, GERMANY, Columbiahalle *
14 April – COLOGNE, GERMANY, E-Werk *
17,18 April – PARIS, FRANCE, L’Olympia *
21 April – AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, AFAS Live *
23, 24 April – LONDON, UK, O₂ Academy Brixton *
25 April – LONDON, UK, O₂ Academy Brixton ^
29 April – DUBLIN, IRELAND, 3Arena ^
27 May – MANCHESTER, UK, Aviva Studios %
30 May – GLASGOW, UK, Barrowland Balloom %
2 June – BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Forest National %
3 June – LUXEMBOURG CITY, LUXEMBOURG, den Atelier %
14 June – MILAN, ITALY, Magnolia %
15 June – MUNICH, GERMANY, Tonhalle %
16 June – HAMBURG, GERMANY, Große Freiheit 36 %

Image Provided by Daniel Arnold