U.F.O.F. by Big Thief

U.F.O.F., Big Thief's third studio album and their first for 4AD, arrived on May 3, 2019, and it sounds like it was made somewhere the city couldn't reach. The Brooklyn band cut it in June 2018 at Bear Creek Studio, tucked away in the greenery of Woodinville, Washington, and the woods seep into everything: hushed, spectral folk drifting toward dream pop, Adrianne Lenker's voice fragile and uncanny over Buck Meek's guitar, Max Oleartchik's bass and James Krivchenia's drums.

The initials stand for "UFO friend", and a couple of songs, "From" and "Terminal Paradise", had already surfaced in other versions on Lenker's 2018 solo album Abysskiss. Critics adored it, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. Within days of finishing, the band was in the Texas desert recording its "earth twin", Two Hands, which landed just five months later.

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