- Adrianne Lenker
- Aldous Harding
- Anjimile
- Atlas Sound
- Bartees Strange
- Becky and the Birds
- Big Thief
- Bing & Ruth
- Buck Meek
- cumgirl8
- Daughter
- Deerhunter
- Dry Cleaning
- Erika de Casier
- Ex:Re
- Future Islands
- HAWA
- Helado Negro
- Holly Herndon
- Jenny Hval
- Lucinda Chua
- Maria Somerville
- Scott Walker
- SOHN
- The Breeders
- the GOLDEN DREGS
- The National
- Tkay Maidza
- Tune-Yards
- U.S. Girls
- Velvet Negroni
- All Artists
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Available on limited recycled LP (randomised colour), black LP, CD, cassette and digital
Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen.
Following the previously released single ‘Ruined,’ ‘Sadness As A Gift’ sees Lenker at her most familiar and warm, a track that is both utterly timeless, yet sounding new and surprising on every listen. The aliveness of Adrianne’s voice keeps her poetry aloft. She sings in a circle completed by guitar, piano, violin, and all voices. “The seasons go so fast // Thinking that this one was going to last // Maybe the question was too much to ask.”
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 analogue precision, what began as an experiment in collaboration, became proof Adrianne’s heart did return, full to the brim, daring her into the unknown.
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.
This vinyl record is 100% analog-analog-analog (AAA). No digital process was used in the production of this sound recording.
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- Real House
- Sadness As A Gift
- Fool
- No Machine
- Free Treasure
- Vampire Empire
- Evol
- Candleflame
- Already Lost
- Cell Phone Says
- Donut Seam
- Ruined