![]() Ben Salmon wrote in the Portland Mercury that on the album, Big Thief "alternately sounds like an unearthed field recording (“Little Arrow”), a pop band with a broken heart’s pulse (“Vegas”), and a classic, buzzy indie-rock outfit (“Interstate”). ![]() This band has made many of my best-loved albums in the past few years, beginning with its 2016 debut Masterpiece and including its 2022 double-album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You. Robert Christgau described its songs as "Fragile, noisy images of a love perpetually out of reach". What we see in this Tiny Desk (home) concert is playfulness substituting for the intensity that I normally find in Big Thief on a big stage. Harry Styles plays a Tiny Desk Concert (Max Posner/NPR). ![]() Bob Boilen wrote for NPR that Big Thief was "a band bound by great songs," and called the title track of Masterpiece "one of the best songs I've heard this year." Jillian Mapes, writing for Pitchfork Media, gave Masterpiece a rating of 7.7 out of 10 and said that the songs on the album "sound cherry-picked over a lifetime of writing". J The best albums from the first half of the year include sprawling offerings from Big Thief and Bad Bunny. Masterpiece received generally favorable reviews from critics it has a rating of 79/100 on Metacritic. ![]()
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