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Adrianne Lenker
Bright Future
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The indie folk prodigy eschews the more built up sounds of her day job in Big Thief for a tender, close and loose collection of poems set to ethereal country that sounds like Vashti Bunyan if she travelled the Appalachian Trail.
Bunyan’s ‘Just Another Diamond Day’ was written to document her pilgrimage from London to the Scottish Highlands, and ‘Bright Future’ holds the same inquisitive restlessness that made Vashti’s opus so timeless. Both carefully employ folk as a tool to discuss a need, a desire, for progression and forward motion. The urgency of these emotions feels at odds for a genre prone to reflection but the clarity of the vision they invoke makes their storytelling breathtakingly vivid.
Storytelling is what’s retained Lenker’s prolific consistency through the last decade. She has already proven that she’s one of the most gifted songwriters of her generation but what’s most astounding is the way she seems to summon these songs from the ether. ‘Bright Future’ feels like the closest we’ve come to this alchemy, with the subtle production, intimate atmosphere and stream of conscious moments giving the impression that what we’re hearing has been written, conjured even, in the moment it was recorded.
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