Album · Big Thief
Capacity by Big Thief
Capacity is an album by Big Thief, released in 2017. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Shark Smile”, on 8 lists with a best position of #13.
Big Thief made Capacity, their second album, holed up in a farmhouse they were minding while its owner was away: a month of recording without interruption, straight to analog gear. Saddle Creek put it out on June 9, 2017, a year after the Brooklyn band's debut, Masterpiece. Adrianne Lenker sings and plays guitar, Buck Meek plays the other guitar, Max Oleartchik holds down the bass, and James Krivchenia, newly installed behind the kit after the first record, keeps time.
It's indie folk with dirt under its fingernails, and Lenker's voice is the pull, able to slip from a murmur to a snarl within a line. Paste heard her writing about nature as poetry that never tips into cliché. "Shark Smile" rolls along with a shadow over it, "Mythological Beauty" is tender and haunted at once, and the cover shows Lenker as a newborn in her uncle's arms. Critics were rapt, and U.F.O.F. came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Capacity on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shark Smile | 8 | #13 | – | 2017–2026 | |
| 2 | Mythological Beauty | 2 | #66 | – | 2017–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.