FLYING OUT'S #24 ALBUM OF 2024:
Bright Future is our Big Thief fronting heroine's first solo album since the gorgeous pairing of songs and instrumentals in 2020. Capturing Lenker’s raw artistry with piano, guitar, violin, and warm electronics, evoking the natural beauty of the wooded surroundings where it was made, this collection of lo-fi folk, with sparse acoustic instrumentation and minimalist arrangements promises an emotional journey—an album as stunning as it is intimate.
Bright Future is our Big Thief fronting heroine's first solo album since the gorgeous pairing of songs and instrumentals in 2020. Capturing Lenker’s raw artistry with piano, guitar, violin, and warm electronics, evoking the natural beauty of the wooded surroundings where it was made, this collection of lo-fi folk, with sparse acoustic instrumentation and minimalist arrangements promises an emotional journey—an album as stunning as it is intimate.
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 analog precision, what began as an experiment in collaboration, became proofadriannes heart did return, full to the brim, daring her into the unknown.
Admirers of Adriannes solo music and big thiefwillfind on bright future her reliable talent captured in stunning, magnetic clarity. In the company of parlor 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 unspliced recordings preserve a time of musical friendship during agoldenseason.
Tracklist
Admirers of Adriannes solo music and big thiefwillfind on bright future her reliable talent captured in stunning, magnetic clarity. In the company of parlor 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 unspliced recordings preserve a time of musical friendship during agoldenseason.
Tracklist
- Real House
- Sadness as a Gift
- Fool
- No Machine
- Free Treasure
- Vampire Empire
- Evol
- Candleflame
- Already Lost
- Cell Phone Says
- Donut Seam
- Ruined
