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Big Thief launch live recordings archive
Big Thief have opened the Big Thief Live Archive, an interactive website that hosts full concert recordings. The news arrives with a live version of “Incomprehensible” from a recent performance in Dublin.
The archive launches with 10 shows, captured by the band’s front-of-house engineer Alice Wilder and monitor engineer Aleda Deroche, and mixed by 4AD’s in-house engineer Fabian Prynn. A new recording will be added to the site on the second Tuesday of every month.
Check out the site here. It is free and interactive, enabling fans to build their own set lists, creating playlists of favourite live takes across the collection. The idea was inspired by drummer James Krivchenia’s love of Grateful Dead live releases.
Alongside the archive launch, Big Thief have shared “Incomprehensible (Live at 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland 29 April 2026)” on all streaming services. The track is from their album Double Infinity, released last year.
In a statement, the band said: “Every show we play holds a different energy. The songs are always changing and sound different every night, and we spend so much more time on the road than in studios, and so we felt a desire to create something that captures the ever-undulating aliveness of our music through time.”
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