Two Hands
by Big Thief
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Big Thief bestography
Two Hands is ranked 4th best out of 8 albums by Big Thief on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Big Thief is Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You which is ranked number 424 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,943.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Two Hands track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Two Hands rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | SD100852 | Top 22 Music Albums of 2019 | 7/22 | 4 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Big Thief: So Far.. | 5/5 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 20/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 30 Music Albums of 2019 | 9/30 | 4 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 82/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | mutant | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 9/100 | 18 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 23/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Kettwig | Top 16 Music Albums of 2019 | 13/16 | 1 |
| 2026 |  JoaoMoreira | Top 91 Music Albums of the 2010s | 23/91 | 15 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 194 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 814 | |||
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Two Hands ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/24/2026 14:45 | gravedee | 467 | 45/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2026 00:07 | Sonoffatboy | 523 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2026 12:47 | JacobMullis | 776 | 88/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.3/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.7.
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Forum mentions
CharlieBarley 01/23/2024 23:43 in Working My Way Through The BEA Overall Chart CharlieBarley 01/23/2024 22:48 in What album are you listening to right now?Two Hands comments
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JoaoMoreira 02/09/2024 01:23 | #301854
Great raw and emotional record ❤️ (Edited)
I love the live and loose feel of this album, it's on the edge, it feels like it could fall apart but it doesn't. Wonderful.
lleon79 06/23/2022 03:01 | #286607 | TOP COMMENT
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I've been listening to all of the Big Thief albums after falling in love with "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You". I tried in the past to like this band to no avail. Now I might say they are becoming one of my favorite acts! "U.F.O.F.", which I previously didn't really like, finally clicked more with me. "Capacity" and "Masterpiece" are filled with incredible cuts. Maybe it is because I've been listening to a lot of Big Thief lately, but this being the last one I came around to, I found it pretty derivative, but still, "Shoulders" is a standout, and "Not" is a truly spectacular song.
Mercury 02/11/2022 18:11 | #281127 | TOP COMMENT
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This is, for me, the least engaging of the Big Thief LPs so far. That is to say while I still quite like it and find the sounds consistently gorgeous and beautiful and all that, this album has far fewer of those moments where my breathe is taken away by the grandness or the beauty of the songs.
The standouts here are the quite uplifting and beautiful “Forgotten Eyes” which has one of my favorite lines “Forgotten tongue is the language of love”. Also this album’s stand out track and the most famous Big Thief track yet “Not” is a passionate and really uniquely structured rocker with a super rewarding and explosive end. Also the title track here is a beautiful and moody and soulful bit of Big Thief/Adrianne magic.
The album flows nicely and the songs are never bad and actually this whole album strikes me as perhaps the least emotionally fragile or down of the Lenker or Big Thief I’ve heard. This is the sound of a band getting on well and absolutely bursting with song ideas and coming together to pull it all off. As a result this is a very loose and joyful album especially by their standards. There is a love and hope present in this album (with obviously still a lot of Lenker’s dark, abstract and emotionally torn themes mixed in).
There is no equal to “Coma” here, nor “Contact”, nor “Masterpiece” and as a result for me this is a beautiful batch of B-B+ songs with no obvious A+ classic. Makes for an album that I can sink into and feel right at home enjoying one of my favorite bands of all time (its safe to say that now that I have explored their work so much) doing those special things they do best. The bass work and drumming and production and the subtly unorthodox songwriting techniques are all here and this is still top tier folk and indie rock, just by their standard I think this is the least loved of their records (note: still LOVED).
This gets a 8.1/10
Great stuff.
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