Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future (LP)

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Adrianne Lenker Album: Bright Future Released: Worldwide, 22 Mar 2024 Tracklist: A1 Real House Piano – Nick Hakim Violin [A Few Tiny Notes On The Violin In The Beginning] – Josefin Runsteen Voice – Adrianne Lenker A2 Sadness As A Gift Voice, 12-String Acoustic Guitar – Adrianne Lenker Voice, Electric Guitar [Stratocaster] – Mat Davidson Voice, Piano – Nick Hakim Voice, Violin – Josefin Runsteen A3 Fool Piano – Philip Weinrobe Voice, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Adrianne Lenker A4 No Machine Voice – Josefin Runsteen, Nick Hakim Voice, Acoustic Guitar – Adrianne Lenker, Mat Davidson A5 Free treasure Voice, Acoustic Guitar – Adrianne Lenker, Mat Davidson A6 Vampire Empire Voice, Acoustic Guitar – Adrianne Lenker Voice, Percussion – Josefin Runsteen Voice, Piano – Nick Hakim Voice, Violin – Mat Davidson B1 Evol Voice, Piano – Adrianne Lenker Voice, Violin – Josefin Runsteen B2 Candle Flame Voice, Acoustic Guitar – Adrianne Lenker Voice, Piano – Mat Davidson Voice, Violin – Josefin Runsteen B3 Already Lost Banjo – Philip Weinrobe Percussion – Noah Lenker Voice, Acoustic Guitar – Adrianne Lenker B4 Cell Phone Says Voice, Acoustic Guitar – Adrianne Lenker B5 Donut Seam Voice – Josefin Runsteen, Mat Davidson, Nick Hakim Voice, Acoustic Guitar – Adrianne Lenker B6 Ruined Voice, Piano, Performer [Crystal] – Adrianne Lenker Related Content: Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . 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We are strongly committed to customer satisfaction. If you experience any problems with your order contact us so we can rectify the situation. If the record arrives damaged or doesn’t arrive we will cover the cost of replacing or returning the record. If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl. Adrianne Lenker announces her new solo album. Bright Future, out on 22 March on 4AD, marks Lenkers first album since 2020s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen. Following the previously released single Ruined, Sadness As A Gift sees Lenker at her most familiar and warm, a track that is both utterly timeless, yet sounding new and surprising on every listen. The aliveness of Adriannes voice keeps her poetry aloft. She sings in a circle completed by guitar, piano, violin, and all voices. The seasons go so fast // Thinking that this one was going to last // Maybe the question was too much to ask. On Bright Future, Adrianne Lenker, a songwriter known for turns of phrase and currents of rhyme, says it plainly, You have my heart // I want it back. Documented with analogue precision, what began as an experiment in collaboration, became proof Adriannes heart did return, full to the brim, daring her into the unknown. During the high vibrance of autumn 2022, the Big Thief band member got lucky. Everyone could come. Three musical friends, Some of my favourite people, had space in their busy touring schedules to join her at the forest-hidden, analogue studio, Double Infinity. The musicians – Hakim, Davidson, and Runsteen – were known to Adrianne but newer to each other. I had no idea what the outcome would be, she recalls. The result? It was magical, she says. Adriannes musical risk became Bright Future, the studios first album, a 12-track telling of a journeyed heart. Bright Futures co-producer and engineer, Philip Weinrobe, prepared the studio. He has been Adriannes partner on previous solo albums, but this was something new. Adrianne did not intend to make an album. They would instead explore the songs with no expectations. Even with an open outcome, from the start, Phil wanted to capture the sessions with the purest, technical honesty. He rolled onto Double Infinitys old cherry wood floors an Otari 1/2 inch 8-Track and Studer console. To fill the air of the 150 year-old main room, Adrianne wanted piano, guitar, and violin. Mat Davidson plays them all. Ive known Mat a long time, she says, It doesnt matter what instrument, his spirit just pours through. At 17, Adrianne met Nick Hakim. She trusted her friend of 15 years to bring his sensitivity to the piano. The way Nick would hold my songs, he would put every ounce of love. Adrianne first met Josefin Runsteen in an Italian castle, and sought the classically trained violinist and percussionists magnetic and contagious energy. She has such fire. In addition to instrumentation, they made a chorus, adding carefully measured vocal harmonies. The sessions impressed and enchanted Adrianne. I think the thing these people have in common, they are some of the best listeners I know musically. They have extreme presence. The shelter and ease of the woodland Double Infinity studio is an element of the recordings. It felt like everyones nervous systems released, she says. Once we were IN the song, somehow we just knew. No one stopped a take. We didnt listen back. I only listened after everybody else left. As a result, Bright Future has the best qualities of thoughtful engineering with the spontaneous swim of a field recording. There are details to savour, fingertips on strings, felt pads nodding in the piano, the harmonies a few steps back, all smoothly laid to tape. It comes together to allow Adriannes songs to be as they are, unarmoured and light-footed. Admirers of Adriannes solo music and Big Thief will find on Bright Future her reliable talent captured in stunning, magnetic clarity. In the company of parlour instruments, Adriannes modern melodic and lyrical inventions create new traditions. Her vocal flights at times outwit gravity, then land, guiding along an earthly path. The wholeness of the un-spliced recordings preserves a time of musical friendship during a golden season. The album also features the original recording of the now-beloved Big Thief song Vampire Empire. Although they recorded for only some days, in Adriannes recollection, It felt like we were together forever. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review