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I'm not a Big Thief devotee. I've only heard three of their albums and two of them haven't done a lot for me. But there's a lot of stuff to like on their ridiculously titled Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You and it's shockingly listenable straight through for a double album.

My favorite song on Dragon, though, is this one that seems uncharacteristic of them, which may have something to do with my not being bought in to their usual (folk rock, acoustic) deal. "Blurred View" is this murky, heavily-processed-sounding quasi-electronica, appropriately named for how the whole thing seems kind of shrouded in an obscuring haze. Appropriately, I guess, I have no idea what it's about or even what most of the lyrics are, and though I think a lot of Adrienne Lenker's lyrics are quite good, I don't really care what they are here. "Blurred View" is about mood and atmosphere, to me, and it does both those things so well I don't feel the need to complicate it.