Name: Capacity
Brand: Big Thief

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

lbj255cd

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Colour

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-06-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0648401025521

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

LBJ-255LPC2

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Opaque Maroon 

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[r21557221]

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Extended format: Yes

Essential Edition

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1500

2022-04-29

648401025507

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / red

Artist

Big Thief

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Saddle Creek

Essential

One of our favourite albums from one of our favourite bands - amazing at Green Man and End Of The Road. Following Big Thief's Saddle Creek debut Masterpiece, Capacity was recorded in a snowy winter nest in upstate New York at Outlier Studio with producer Andrew Sarlo. The album jumps right into lives marked up and nipped in surprisingly swift fashion.

Lenker’s songs introduce us to a gallery of multifacted women and deal with the complicated matters of identity — at once dangerous and curious, though never unbelievable. Lenker shows us the gentle side of being ripped open. Tricked into love, done in and then witnessing the second act of pulling oneself back together to prepare for it to all happen again, but this time to a sturdier soul, one who is going to take the punches better than ever before and deal some jabs and roundhouses of their own.

The album is thick with raw, un-doctored beauty: most of the songs on Capacity were played for the first time in the studio and were recorded the same day. “There is a darker darkness and a lighter light on this album,” Lenker explains. “The songs search for a deeper level of self-acceptance, to embrace the world within and without. I think Masterpiece began that process, as a reaction from inside the pain, whereas I feel Capacity examines the pain from the outside.”

Capacity is now available as a Rough Trade Essential Edition on Opaque Maroon vinyl. Limited copies only.