Last year, Adrianne Lenker released “Bright Future”, her tender, country-inflected sixth solo studio album that earned a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album and widespread acclaim as one of the most powerful albums of 2024. Today, she continues to celebrate that breakthrough project with the announcement of “Live at Revolution Hall”, a sprawling collection of live treatments of those songs and more from her celebrated discography. The album will arrive next Thursday, April 24th, via 4AD Records, and it’s preceded by the new single “happiness.”
“Live at Revolution Hall” comprises 43 tracks recorded over three nights during her summer 2024 tour, including all ten cuts from “Bright Future” and other favourite entries from her solo catalogue, like “anything,” “symbol,” and “zombie girl.” Also featured are five previously unreleased songs, “happiness,” “oldest,” “ripples,” “i do love you,” and “no limits,”; “happiness,” is a gentle, intimate and richly textured recording grounded in her keen eye for poignant details, below.
The Big Thief bandleader is alternately alone on these songs and accompanied by her touring and recording collaborators, pianist Nick Hakim and violinist Josefin Runsteen. The project is artfully engineered by Andrew Sarlo, who captures the gravity of the performance with a soft, humming atmosphere.
“It was impossible to do this album without the immense love and respect I have for my friend,” Sarlo shared in a statement. “Watching the power of the music disarm and permeate feels a bit like an ‘I told ya so’ but I am still amazed every time.
From the sidelines I cheer. This live album is another generous offering from Adrianne… Clocking in around 120 minutes featuring songs & vignettes recorded exclusively on reel to reel and cassette tape, there was an attempt to create a different spin on what a live album could be… we put friendship at the focal point making this a loving memento from one friend to another.”
“Live at Revolution Hall” is available to pre-order and pre-save of digital and limited double-cassette formats.
“With her sandpaper voice, fragile yet steely, and simple melodic songs imbued with poetic mystery, Lenker played solo acoustic guitar and brought to mind a modern, female equivalent of the young Bob Dylan.”
– The Times
“Even performing solo, Lenker is an orchestra onto herself … She is a masterful storyteller, and her lyrics, like her instrumentals, can be impressionistic, but it is the small, personal details that can grab and emotionally throttle you.”
– Brooklyn Vegan
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