imimesis

Probably their best album since 69 Love Songs (with the exception of 50 Song Memoir, which is a tour de force, if ever there was one). Really baffles me that the AOTY community doesn't like this.

I just discovered this album (yes even though this is The Album With Smoke On The Water On It), and I'm wondering where it has been all my life. Every track on here is perfect 70s classic blues rock jamz. Just enough, but never too much. The Bass solos! The buzzy-fuzzy organ! The super skilled, clean drumming. The tasteful, never schlocky singing. And just the right tone on that guitar amp.

THIS. IS. RAWK.

"They said I can rap about anything, exCEPT for JESUS!"

It gets better with each listen, and with each hater lamenting Kanye's fall from WOKENESS' grace.

The 90s are back baby and in a BIG (Thief) way.

Each time I come back to their previous record U.F.O.F., I become more convinced that it’s the album of the year. The fact that Big Thief returns in the same year with a potentially better record is an event and achievement in and of itself.

Three tracks in, this is clearly a more stripped down affair, almost reminiscent of the best folk rock efforts of the MTV Unplugged era in the 1990s.