Big Thief - Capacity

Capacity is the second studio album by American folk rock band Big Thief, originally released in June 2017 via Saddle Creek.

In Capacity’s eleven songs, Adrianne Lenker introduces us to many different women. Even at the threshold of this house of mirrors, the opening track, "Pretty Things", she sings: “These things that lonely ones do / Baby that's what I’m here for / I’ll take care and make all your wishes come true / If you want to / Do you want to? / Don’t take me for a fool / There’s a woman inside of me / There’s one inside of you too”

Lenker’s characters are often spooked and then soothed in a remarkably short amount of time, regenerating back into a state where they can once again be vulnerable. The band breathes with this swell, gasping in synchrony, hyperventilating with volume, and then suddenly the crisis passes and the band exhales with mutual relief. NPR Music’s Bob Boilen finds an enduring quality in Capacity’s songs: "Big Thief’s quiet power propels songs of the flesh and soul. These are timeless songs, memorable and momentous.”

This album is a limited 2025 reissue on eco mix coloured vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed in the US via 4AD.