Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief is releasing a new solo album, “Bright Future”, via 4AD. Now she has shared another song from it, “Free Treasure.” It was shared via a lyric video.
In 2020, Lenker released two solo albums, one simply titled “songs” and another simply titled “instrumentals”, via 4AD. “Bright Future” Philip Weinrobe co-produced the album, which also features contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen.
In the autumn of 2022, Lenker was pleased that three of her friends (“some of my favourite people,” as she describes Hakim, Davidson, and Runsteen in a press release) had the time to take a break from their own music careers and join her at Double Infinity, an analogue studio in a forest. The three musicians didn’t really know each other that well. “I had no idea what the outcome would be,” Lenker admits, but says the results turned out well. “It was magical,” she says.
Of Davidson, Lenker says: “I’ve known Mat a long time. It doesn’t matter what instrument, his spirit just pours through.” Lenker has known Hakim since she was 17. “The way Nick would hold my songs, he would put every ounce of love,” she says. Of the trio of collaborators, Lenker adds: “I think the thing these people have in common, they are some of the best listeners I know musically. They have extreme presence.”
Summing up the recording of “Bright Future“, she says: “It felt like everyone’s nervous systems released. 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.”
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