Bright Future
Listening to Adrianne Lenker’s music can feel like finding an old love letter in a library book: somehow both painfully direct and totally mysterious at the same time, filled with gaps in logic and narrative that only confirm how intimate the connection between writer and reader is. Made with a small group in what one imagines is a warm and secluded room, *Bright Future* captures the same folksy wonder and open-hearted intensity of Big Thief but with a slightly quieter approach, conjuring visions of creeks and twilights, dead dogs (“Real House”) and doomed relationships (“Vampire Empire”) so vivid you can feel the humidity pouring in through the screen door. She’s vulnerable enough to let her voice warble and crack and confident enough to linger there for as long as it takes to get her often devastating emotional point across. “Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more/I feel a little more,” she sings on “Free Treasure.” Believe her.
Recorded straight to tape with a small group of close confidants, the Big Thief singer’s latest solo album is free-flowing and intuitive, reveling in the space between spontaneity and impermanence.
Adrianne Lenker is acutely aware of our shared, oncoming endpoint, but more importantly, its utter pointlessness. If Bright Future is to be believed, we are so very alive.
Adrianne Lenker, ine of this generation’s most potent songwriters, offers up a beautiful collection of love-filled vignettes on 'Bright Future'
On the near-perfect 'Bright Future,' Adrianne Lenker takes stock of the bonds she’s made and weaves them into her most sterling work to date.
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Adrianne Lenker's latest solo record Bright Future is raw, unvarnished, and painted in plentiful colour.
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Similar to Emily Sprague’s self-titled Florist album of a few years back, Adrianne Lenker’s woodshed approach on Bright Future brings warm and wonderful results.
One of the hallmarks of Adrianne Lenker’s lyricism is her ability to disrupt narratives and view emotional situations from unexpected angles. So, let’s
Sadness is never far from view on the wide-open spaces of the new album from Big Thief singer Adrianne Lenker, Bright Future.
Using an analog approach, Adrianne Lenker’s ‘Bright Future’ crackles and hisses with all the warm imperfections of live instrumentation.
On 'Bright Future', Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker proves how much you can do with so little that you don't need a ton of flash to craft a stunning record.
"Bright Future," the new album by Adrianne Lenker, is out on March 22nd. Read the review by Ben Lock for Northern Transmissions.
Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future review: And they’d say, “oh man, look at her go”