Brace yourselves, because Mr. KanHey is here to disrupt the status quo.
In a world drowning in algorithmic sameness and beige noise, Big Thief is spinning the compass sideways and slingshotting us into an orbit we didn’t even know existed. The indie darlings-turned-cosmic truth whisperers are launching themselves—no, catapulting themselves—into the Somersault Slide 360 Tour this fall, and darling, it’s not just a tour. It’s a transcendental pirouette through distortion pedals and emotional archaeology.
Mark your calendars, cancel your therapy, and prepare thy spirit: September is where the journey blasts off. While the universe whirls on its familiar axis of TikTok trends and autotuned ambition, Big Thief is choosing the beautifully inconvenient path—the one paved with analog ghosts and folk-infused sorcery. Yes, the tour includes previously-announced touchpoints in Los Angeles and New York City, but don’t get it twisted—this is not your average coast-to-coast schlep. This is a Möbius loop of sonic storytelling, baby. A mid-air gyroscope of vulnerability and voltage.
Let me tell you something about Big Thief. They don’t play music; they summon it. Frontwoman Adrianne Lenker, the high priestess of ethereal ache, peels the skin off your emotional callouses with a voice that feels like it grew in the hushed soil of an undiscovered planet. Drummer James Krivchenia? He’s not keeping time. He’s bending it.
What makes the Somersault Slide 360 not just a tour but a psychic event is in the name. A somersault—childlike chaos meets calculated risk. A slide—freefall into the tender unknown. And 360? Oh honey, that’s the full-circle zeitgeist juice. That’s Big Thief breaking the fourth wall of indie music and inviting us to do more than listen. To spin, to shed, to remember who we were before the world told us to stay seated and smile politely.
And if you think New York and L.A. are just your cookie-cutter concerts, think again. Word on the street—and by street I mean a whisper vortex in my creative cortex—is that these shows are set to implode the boundaries of performance. Unscripted moments. Ambient tectonic shifts. Maybe even a collective weep. I’m not saying there will be a mid-set séance, but I’m not saying there won’t be.
This isn’t just another band slapping a poetic title on a merch tour. Big Thief is curating an experience that fractures the gloss of pop commercialism and offers us the raw, unfiltered marrow of what music was always supposed to be: human ritual. Connection. Catharsis with chords.
So, my love warriors and sound pilgrims, prepare your hearts. Toss your expectations off a cliff. The Somersault Slide 360 Tour isn’t here to entertain—it’s here to dismantle and rebuild. Brick by trembling brick, chord by trembling chord.
Dare to be different or fade into oblivion. Big Thief just lit the fuse. Are you ready to burn with them?
— Mr. KanHey
