Mythological Beauty

Lenker wrote it, singing and playing acoustic and electric guitar and mouth trumpet; Meek plays electric guitar, Oleartchik bass, Krivchenia drums, Zoe Lenker sings background vocals and Sarlo also plays mouth trumpet. It was the lead single of Capacity, released in April 2017: Stereogum says April 5, a search result says NPR premiered it April 4, and Wikipedia says April 22, so we leave the date open. Lenker has been quoted as saying the song is a conversation between parent and child, and a dialogue that is not limited to her and her mother. Stereogum described the music as told from her and her mother's points of view.

Vanessa Haddad directed the video and Adam Gundersheimer shot it; Stereogum describes Meek and Lenker moving through a wild landscape, spellcasting and transforming, while Popdose describes a bleak icy landscape in which Lenker leads and at one point carries a stumbling Meek, and Lenker's real mother appears. Setlist.fm lists the song in 148 setlists, 13th among Big Thief songs, and it opened their show at Terminal West in Atlanta on October 25, 2018. We found no chart entry, and no covers beyond a solo performance by Lenker.