Live music review: Brilliance from Big Thief at National Stadium, Dublin

The American indie rockers unleashed a  superb mix of old and new material at their only Irish gig  
Live music review: Brilliance from Big Thief at National Stadium, Dublin

Big Thief played the National Stadium in Dublin at the weekend. 

 ★★★★☆

 “I want to do this for a long time,” Big Thief vocalist Adrianne Lenker tells a captive, heaving crowd halfway through their set at Dublin’s National Stadium on Saturday night. Five albums in six years, the latest the sprawling 20-track Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, to go along with a plethora of solo records, has marked them out as a band in which to lose yourself.

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