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BeatRoute Magazine ON Edition - October 2019

BeatRoute Magazine is a music monthly and website that also covers: fashion, film, travel, liquor and cannabis all through the lens of a music fan. Distributed in British Columbia and Alberta, Ontario edition coming Thursday, October 4, 2019. BeatRoute’s Alberta edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton, Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120

BeatRoute Magazine is a music monthly and website that also covers: fashion, film, travel, liquor and cannabis all through the lens of a music fan. Distributed in British Columbia and Alberta, Ontario edition coming Thursday, October 4, 2019. BeatRoute’s Alberta edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton, Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120

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MUSiC<br />

BIG<br />

THIEF<br />

Brooklyn folk-rockers’ less-is-more<br />

sound approaches perfection<br />

By MAGGIE MCPHEE<br />

F<br />

ate does not smile upon the initial<br />

attempt at an interview with<br />

Big Thief frontwoman Adrianne<br />

Lenker. What starts as technological<br />

difficulties — navigating her Brooklyn<br />

apartment for a clear signal — escalates when a<br />

balcony window pops out of its frame and falls<br />

on her girlfriend’s head.<br />

When she calls back later in the day after<br />

making sure no harm had been done, Lenker<br />

uses the incident as a point of departure to<br />

discuss the intention behind Two Hands, the<br />

Brooklyn-based indie-folk outfit’s second album<br />

of <strong>2019</strong>. “The earth is like a body, like a<br />

vessel. It’s our truest home just like our bodies<br />

are homes. And if I get a cut or if I hit my head,”<br />

she says with a laugh, “I’m suddenly aware of<br />

all this fragility,‘oh it’s the only body I’ve got,<br />

I better take care of this precious being.’ That’s<br />

Earth.”<br />

It takes a disarmingly short amount of time on<br />

the phone for Lenker to ease into the philosophical.<br />

She’s discerning in a way that would cause<br />

whiplash if not for her humility. Lenker precedes<br />

every point with “I wonder if” and punctuates<br />

her insight with laughter and nearly audible<br />

shrugs. Long silences elapse as she gathers her<br />

thoughts, and when she does speak the words<br />

emanate from a deeply thoughtful place.<br />

Big Thief’s open-heartedness and commitment<br />

to surviving “as an organism, as one entity,”<br />

has led them to a remarkable place: not<br />

only will they have released U.F.O.F. and Two<br />

Hands just six months shy of each other, but<br />

the two projects coalesce into a broader meta-<br />

C<strong>ON</strong>TINUED <strong>ON</strong> PG. 8 k<br />

DUSTIN C<strong>ON</strong>DREN<br />

OCTOBER <strong>2019</strong> BEATROUTE 7

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