Adrianne Lenker shares a new single ‘Free Treasure’ from her upcoming album, Bright Future, out this Friday 22 March. Delicate and intimate, the stunning new song is made sturdy by dual vocals and guitars paired shoulder-to-shoulder. With Mat Davidson on vocal and guitar harmonies, ‘Free Treasure’ takes us home, where we find the best cooking, a warm fire, understanding, and “love without measure.” It is a road-worn traveller’s paradise, full of adventure and whimsy, free to whomever lays it all down.“Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more, I feel a little more.”
Adrianne Lenker – ‘Free Treasure ’ LISTEN HERE
Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s ‘songs & instrumentals’, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Davidson, Nick Hakim, and Josefin Runsteen. 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. The result 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. Bright Future will be available digitally and on CD, cassette, standard black vinyl and recycled vinyl (Indie & D2D Exclusive) from 22 March.
New Album Bright Future out on 23 March
“An early contender for album of the year.”–The Sunday Times
“One of the most beloved voices in modern folk and indie rock.”–Variety
“Her songs can seem like a pane of glass placed between herself and the broader world-fragile, but a means of seeing her clearly.”–The New York Times
“A collection of stunning, open-hearted songs.”–Uncut,9/10
“Lenker’s best work.”–MOJO,
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Adrianne Lenker–Bright Future
Tracklist
1. Real House
3. Fool
4. No Machine
5. Free Treasure
6. Vampire Empire
7. Evol
8. Candleflame
9. Already Lost
10. Cell Phone Says
11. Donut Seam
12. Ruined
ADRIANNE LENKER ONLINE:
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