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Oct 26, 2017 · It is a (beautifully) tricky voice to pen, but for drummer James Krivchenia and his bandmates, one that is not difficult to follow. Over the phone on his way to a show in San Francisco,...
Big Thief is an American indie folk band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2015. The band consists of Adrianne Lenker (vocals, guitar), Buck Meek (guitar, backing vocals) and James Krivchenia (drums). [1] . Between 2015 and 2024, the band also included longtime bass guitarist, Max Oleartchik.
Nov 22, 2017 · On a summer afternoon in upstate New York, James Krivchenia and his girlfriend are in the midst of moving their items out of the storage space they had temporarily rented. Krivchenia has found himself in Queens these days, even though home is in Chicago.
- On Berklee's Greatest Lessons
- On Big Thief’s Beginnings
- On Guarding Their Artistry and Sustainable Success
- On The Sound of 'Time Escaping'
- On Recording Their Vocals Live
- Adrianne Lenker on Her Creative Process and Advice For Songwriters
Before they ascended into the Pitchforkpantheon, most of the band members were right here, taking classes, jamming with new friends, and coping with the impostor syndrome that can take hold when you realize just how many good musicians a school like Berklee can gather in one place. Krivchenia remembered the experience of "a good, solid ego death" d...
After meeting as teenagers during a summer program at Berklee, Meek and Oleartchik fell out of touch. But when Meek, Lenker, and Oleartchik wound up in New York City, a chance encounter brought them back together. "I just decided to smoke a cigarette next to this tree," Oleartchik recalls, "and randomly—or maybe not randomly—I look to my left and B...
As Big Thief started seeing critical and commercial success, and as they began confronting the pressures and pitfalls that success can bring, the band worked hard to preserve their artistic integrity—both because they held this integrity as a core value, and because they knew this authenticity is what their audiences were connecting with. "All peop...
Of all the strange and exhilarating sounds the band let loose on their new album, surely one of the most endearing oddballs is "Time Escaping"—a psychedelic swirl of prepared guitars and blown-out drums, shaded with synth tones and buoyed by Lenker's vivid, dreamy vocals. Because of the way the track was engineered by L.A. producer Sean Everett, th...
The other production choice the band says helped make "Time Escaping" special was their preference for recording live, full-band takes for most of their songs—even for the main vocal track, and even when rerecording the vocals could yield a more conventionally "polished" final product. Krivchenia: "We usually all play together, and Adrianne sings t...
At the heart of Big Thief's magic is Lenker's voice—the expressiveness of her singing and the poetic vulnerability of her songwriting. It makes sense, then, that as the hour came to a close, the conversation turned toward a question, asked by a high schooler in the audience, which is central to the band's resonance with their listeners: How does Le...
Feb 1, 2022 · Lenker describes an even, intuitive relationship with her bandmates: bassist Max Oleartchik, guitarist Buck Meek, and drummer James Krivchenia.
James Krivchenia (b. Minnesota, 1988) is a many-armed sculptor of music. The gentle but fierce wisdom of his drumming in Big Thief; the exceptionally loving chime-, drum-, and studio work with Mega Bog; the acoustic mirror framing the living collages of Causings.
The latest album from James Krivchenia, "A New Found Relaxation," available now at: https://jameskrivchenia.lnk.to/ANFR. instagram.com/james_krivchenia and 2 more links.
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