Whatever Adrianne's doing it's coming out very, very coherent," Oleartchik says of their songwriting process. "Everyone knows pretty much what the song needs ... It's not like you're playing, it's not you playing — it's just happening." Minsker, Evan (August 10, 2021). "Big Thief Share New Songs "Little Things" and "Sparrow": Listen". Pitchfork . Retrieved August 18, 2021. Takeaways from the 2020 Grammy Nominations". Pitchfork. November 20, 2019 . Retrieved November 21, 2019. Brodsky, Rachel (October 4, 2021). "Big Thief Prep Double LP For 2022". Stereogum . Retrieved October 4, 2021. Minsker, Evan (March 1, 2023). "Watch Big Thief Debut New Song "Vampire Empire" on Colbert". Pitchfork . Retrieved March 1, 2023.

a b Lee, Taila (November 15, 2022). "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". Grammys.com . Retrieved November 15, 2022. Within a year and a half after they met, they had bought a 1987 Chevy G20 conversion van together. It was colored cream with gold and brown trim, and inside it had wood paneling and orange shag carpet. They named her Bonnie. On the cover of those EPs, they're pictured standing in front of the van. They're smiling. "We didn't really have much influence in how to tour or anything like that," Meek says. "We just looked at a map and [thought] 'where do we want to go in this country?'"More audacious than that, half the song is given over to Lenker’s electric guitar solo – a sceptic-converting firework display derived from the spacious Neil Young school, but wound far more tightly, full of frustration and suffering, angry and ecstatic at the same time. Lenker solos on electric a few more times, an approach that raises the question why Big Thief bother with so much mellifluous Americana filler when they could routinely blow the roof off every venue with Lenker’s gnarly power and Meek’s revolutionary un-playing. Weiss, Dan (June 1, 2016). "Review: Big Thief Are Halfway To A Low-Strung 'Masterpiece' ". Spin . Retrieved June 10, 2022. Those close to Adrianne Lenker know her by many names. The lead singer of Big Thief is Anne or Anna sometimes to her parents; Anna or Annie to her grandmother. She's Dran to her sister and brother, and Lunx to her college bandmates. She's Charlie sometimes to Mat Davidson of Twain, who opened at the first Big Thief show, and 'Aderrianne' to Max Oleartchik, the bassist in her own band. "She's probably many things to many people," an old teacher of hers from Berklee College of Music says. She calls her Adriannie. Skinner, Tom (October 6, 2021). "Big Thief share dreamy new single 'Change' and North American tour dates". NME . Retrieved June 10, 2022. a b c Mapes, Jillian (June 6, 2016). "Big Thief: Masterpiece". Pitchfork . Retrieved February 6, 2018.

Larson, Jeremy D. (May 6, 2019). "Big Thief: U.F.O.F. Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved June 10, 2022.For all except noted: "Big Thief albums". Australian Recording Industry Association / Australian-charts . Retrieved March 8, 2022. Weiss, Dan (June 1, 2016). "Review: Big Thief Are Halfway to a Low-Strung 'Masterpiece' ". Spin . Retrieved May 7, 2019. But for all this, Big Thief can sometimes present as overearnest, hippy-ish North Americans with little quality control. Take Max Oleartchik, whose tasselled bass, moustache and pigtails ensemble tonight hint at time spent near drumming circles. When Big Thief attempt something lighthearted, they end up with a strange song about potatoes – Spud Infinity, which unsuccessfully rhymes “knish” with “finish”. U.F.O.F. did not enter the Australian ARIA Albums Chart but peaked at number 12 on the ARIA Hitseekers Chart. [54]