On Sunday, Massive Thief debuted their subsequent album at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Titled Horsepower, it’s a triple LP that options Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, and Iris DeMent, all of whom joined the trio onstage. Photograph and video was prohibited on the present, however you’ll be able to try a setlist from the night under.
Introducing the file, Adrianne Lenker joked, “In the event you had some hopes of listening to a few of the songs you would possibly know—these will be discarded.” Though the band didn’t carry out Horsepower in sequence, they did play the 29-song undertaking in full. They have been additionally joined by the broader band who they made it with: Russ Pahl and Greg Leisz on pedal metal and guitar, and Hannah Learn, Richard Bowden, and Zosha Warpeha on fiddle.
Lots of the new tracks have been kicking across the group or Lenker’s reside units for years. The band debuted two of the songs—“Carry,” and “Area and Time”— again in Could throughout a session in a discipline for Belgium’s Radio 1.
Massive Thief launched their most up-to-date album (and first as a trio), Double Infinity, in 2025. Subsequent month, they’ll kick off one other leg of touring behind the file, which can take them round North America earlier than a ultimate present at Denver’s Purple Rocks on October 6.
Massive Thief on the Ryman Auditorium Set Checklist 2026:
Horsepower
Child Honey Sweetheart Darlin’
Wait a Whereas
Area and Time
21
Informal Contact
Muscle Reminiscence
Freeway
Keep
Carry
Disappointment as a Present
True Love
The place Will We Go
Stunning World
Faker
Loneliest Boy
Happiness
Oldest
Brilliant Future
Stunning Highly effective
Avalanche, Hurricane
Snail
Spatchcock Chickenshit Bingo
Commerce Tomorrow
6-7-8-9 She’s Fantastic
These Are the Days
No Matter What
Born For Loving You
Present Pleasure Pleasure
