For amp-ear music you're connected to all songs considered I'm Bob Boylin with not only new music from Big

Thief, but I'm happy to announce their new album and it's called Dragon New War Mountain I Believe in

You. And this new Big Thief record is a double album recorded in four locations over five months

in Upps-de-D New York to Penger Canyon, the Rocky Mountains and Tucson Arizona. They completed 45

songs, but 20 of them or what make it on the album. Here's Big Thief drummer and producer James

Krivgenia to tell us about the unusual sounds we'll hear on the song we'll play called Time Escaping.

So we kind of had this groove that felt good on the drums and we were sort of searching for guitar sounds

and we kept wanting to get the guitars to be drier. So there's more space because there's a lot of

words and wanted to kind of feel the funkiness in Buck and Adrian's fingers. So we ended up putting

these little like metro cards or business cards or just stuff from your wallet in the guitar to

sort of dead knit and it brings out sort of different harmonics because it's changing the

distance between frets on the string and stuff like that and it gives it that sort of

percussive really short attack sound and so that's how this song was tracked. It was tracked with

Buck and Adrian in the same room playing these prepared acoustic guitars and Adrian doing a vocal

and Max on the synth doing that sort of arpeggiated thing just playing that by hand and me on drums and

it was really exciting me recorded this with our friend Sean Everett and he was sort of

instructed to go crazy because on those acoustic sounds because he's great at that and he came up with

with a really powerful sound I think. We put some backgrounds on and Adrian did some ad lib

takes which were fun. That's just sort of the technical how-to side of it. I don't want to give

too much away about the song but it's one of my favorites from the record and I hope you enjoy listening.

To it the stage and blush wildlifeingly crush the rage and rush time tapping me

call the name so much so rapidly dissolving into thin air

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