I can say the same for Adrianne Lenker's many solo albums and for Buck Meek's 2021 solo album, Two Saviors. The first three songs in this set all come from that album and were written by singer Adrianne Lenker, with 'Certainty' co-written with guitarist Buck Meek.īig Thief songs are often filled with tender tales and poetic and playful words. 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.

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. Now, if we can just get him to visit the real Tiny Desk.I love seeing friends playing comfortably at home, especially when those friends are members of my favorite band. But here, the focus never drifts away from the star at center stage - no matter how closely you might squint at the stuffed animals, housewares, clocks and toys (not to mention Big Mouth Billy Bass!) behind him. Paak, respectively, both of whom get shoutouts in this set. The studio tracks feature Erykah Badu and Anderson. From there, he showcases the first two tracks from Indigo: the rap-driven 'Yun' and the funky 'Still Life,' both of which are inspired by RM's love of and fascination with painting. But he kicks off the set with an older track, 'seoul,' which first appeared on his 2018 mixtape mono. RM timed his solo Tiny Desk debut - which follows BTS's home concert from back in 2020 - to coincide with the release of his first official studio album, Indigo. What's a random tchotchke and what's an Easter egg? Study the set closely! What really sets it apart is the huge array of shelf-bound ephemera, which is bound to have the BTS Army sleuthing in the YouTube comments. Given that BTS's RM (aka Kim Nam-joon) is based in South Korea, we let it slide - not least because his team put together one of the most impressive Tiny Desk facsimiles we've seen yet.

Now that we're back to recording Tiny Desk concerts in the office, home concerts mostly happen under special circumstances: when the artist is overseas, for example, or otherwise unable to get to Washington, D.C., when we're recording.

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