Big Thief have enlisted Adrianne Lenker’s brother, Noah, to direct a video for their Double Infinity track “Words.” In the short, the band indulges in mystical activities—conjuring, transmogrifying, reading alphabetti spaghetti tea leaves—in various rural settings, using the power of words to unlock mysteries of the universe. Join them below.
This is Big Thief’s first music video since 2017’s “Mythological Beauty” not to be based on a live performance. Here, Noah Lenker reflects on it in a statement befitting the playful tone of the video itself: “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.”
Double Infinity came out last week, their first record since the departure of bassist Max Oleartchik.
