The Big Thief will release their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, on 5 September 2025. Today Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia unveil the album’s opening track, Incomprehensible.

Double Infinity follows the 2022 Grammy-nominated album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, and was recorded last winter at New York’s Power Station. For three consecutive weeks, the trio cycled the icy streets between Brooklyn and Manhattan, meeting in the wood-panelled hall of the Power Stations. Together with a community of musicians (Alena Spanger, Caleb Michel, Hannah Cohen, Jon Nellen, Joshua Crumbly, June McDoom, Laraaji, Mikel Patrick Avery, Mikey Buishas), they played for nine hours a day, recording live – simultaneously – improvising arrangements and making collective discoveries. Double Infinity was produced, recorded and mixed by long-time collaborator Dom Monks.

‘How can beauty that is living be anything but true?’ wonders Adrianne, as she projects herself into the future carrying memories of childhood in Incomprehensible. And she realises: ‘Everything I see from now on will be something new. Even the silver hair on her shoulders is new, but the fear of time passing dissolves in the face of evidence. If a life is defined by living, then: “Let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair”. To be born and to exist a little, remains the greatest of mysteries. Adrianne claims her own time and space. ‘Incomprehensible, let me be’.

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