Two Hands, released October 11, 2019, is Big Thiefs fourth studio album and a striking complement to the earlier *U.F.O.F.* in the same year. Recorded mainly live at Sonic Ranch in Texas with minimal overdubs, the band aimed for immediate, visceral performance energy. The sessions foreground the raw chemistry between Adrianne Lenkers guitar and voice, Buck Meeks counterpoint, Max Oleartchiks bass, and James Krivchenias drumming. The desert surroundings and live approach help the record feel grounded and urgent compared to the more ethereal tone of *U.F.O.F.*.:contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

Tracks like Not, Shoulders, Forgotten Eyes, and Cut My Hair map a terrain of emotional intensity, grief, connection, and mortality. Lenkers lyrics often veer between confession and imagery, while the band shifts from hushed tension to cathartic bursts. *Two Hands* is less about polish than about capturing relational fracture and sonic rupture, offering a more muscular, grounded counterpart to Big Thiefs dreamier impulses. Critics have lauded it as essential and rawanother defining moment in their discography.:contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

Reviews

"The album's quality stands on its own, offering its own grade of intimacy, sound, and feel for alternate moods." AllMusic

The second landmark album this year from Big Thief is raw, tactile, and essential. Pitchfork

Big Thiefs album U.F.O.F released earlier this year was hazy and dreamlike, its companion Two Hands feels pure, tangible and raw. Loud And Quiet

Review

A1 Rock And Sing
A2 Forgotten Eyes
A3 The Toy
A4 Two Hands
A5 Those Girls
B1 Shoulders
B2 Not
B3 Wolf
B4 Replaced
B5 Cut My Hair