View basket “The Best Of Harpers Bizarre” has been added to your basket. Bright Future Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) SKU: 21.00 22.00 £21.00 - £22.00 £21.00 - £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4AD Released Date: 22nd March 2024 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Bright Future quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Adrianne Lenker announces her new solo album. Bright Future, out on 22 March on 4AD, marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s 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 Adrianne’s 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 Adrianne’s 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. Adrianne’s musical risk became Bright Future, the studio’s first album, a 12-track telling of a journeyed heart. Bright Future’s co-producer and engineer, Philip Weinrobe, prepared the studio. He has been Adrianne’s 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 Infinity’s 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. “I’ve known Mat a long time,” she says, “It doesn’t 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 percussionist’s “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 everyone’s nervous systems released,” she says. “Once we were IN the song, somehow we just knew. No one stopped a take. We didn’t 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 Adrianne’s songs to be as they are, unarmoured and light-footed. Admirers of Adrianne’s solo music and Big Thief will find on Bright Future her reliable talent captured in stunning, magnetic clarity. In the company of parlour instruments, Adrianne’s 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 Adrianne’s recollection, “It felt like we were together forever.” Artist Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) Genre Rock And Pop Label 4AD Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Real House Sadness As A Gift Fool No Machine Free Treasure Vampire Empire Evol Candleflame Already Lost Cell Phone Says Donut Seam Ruined Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) songs and instrumentals Rock And Pop | 4AD | 2LP Released 23rd October 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) songs and instrumentals £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4AD SKU: 4AD0302LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 23rd October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nightingales, The / Stewart Lee Ten Bob Each Way / Use Your Loaf Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 7", Single Released 14th May 2021 £9.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nightingales, The / Stewart Lee Ten Bob Each Way / Use Your Loaf £9.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRE637 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 14th May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Electric Light Orchestra The UK SIngles Volume 1: 1972-78 Rock And Pop | Epic/Legacy | Box Set Released 5th October 2018 £110.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Electric Light Orchestra The UK SIngles Volume 1: 1972-78 £110.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Epic/Legacy SKU: 88985424617 Formats: Box Set Released Date: 5th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Chick Churchill You & Me Blues | Chrysalis | 1LP Released 7th February 2023 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Chick Churchill You & Me £12.00 Genre: Blues Label: Chrysalis SKU: nn257553 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th February 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Public Image Limited This Is PiL Rock And Pop | PiL Official | 2LP Released 28th May 2012 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Image Limited This Is PiL £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PiL Official SKU: PIL002LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 28th May 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nathaniel Rateliff And It’s Still Alright Rock And Pop | Concord | 180g 1LP Released 14th February 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nathaniel Rateliff And It’s Still Alright £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Concord Released Date: 14th February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jack Peñate After You Rock And Pop | XL Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th November 2019 £19.00 Select options Jack Peñate After You £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: XL Recordings Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th November 2019 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Bill Callahan Dream River Americana / Country | Drag City | 1LP Released 11th September 2013 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Callahan Dream River £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Drag City SKU: DC553 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th September 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miaoux Miaoux Light Of The North Rock And Pop | Chemikal Underground | 1LP Released 11th June 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miaoux Miaoux Light Of The North £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Chemikal Underground SKU: CHEM178 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jimi Hendrix First Rays Of The New Rising Sun Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 21st April 2010 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jimi Hendrix First Rays Of The New Rising Sun £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP076 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 21st April 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kills, The Midnight Boom Rock And Pop | Domino | 1LP Released 28th October 2015 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Kills, The Midnight Boom £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP184 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th October 2015 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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