Name: Abysskiss
Brand: Adrianne Lenker

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Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-05

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Redeye

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Sales:8.875

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Artist

Adrianne Lenker

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Saddle Creek

Adrianne Lenker is a singer-songwriter from Indianapolis, Indiana. She is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of Big Thief, as well as for her own solo work. Adrianne's musical journey began when she moved to Minnesota with her family at a young age and started learning guitar and writing songs. Throughout her teens, she dedicated herself to music, playing gigs and releasing solo material. In 2014, Adrianne made the bold move to Brooklyn, New York where she connected with Buck Meek and together they formed a duo. That same year, she self-released her first solo album titled "Hours Were the Birds." The following year saw the formation of folk rock band Big Thief with Buck. Adrianne's second solo record "abysskiss" was released in October 2018 through Saddle Creek Records. In 2020, she signed to 4AD and treated fans to a double album titled "songs and instrumentals."

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/adrianne-lenker-abysskiss">Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss </a>

An achingly beautiful record from <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/big-thief">Big Thief</a> vocalist, Adrianne Lenker. This is the Minnesota-born musician as she is, with very little else. Her voice is centre stage, which flickers, dancing and diving over the songs like an autumn sun on a frost-bitten morning. Lenker's ability to let you inside, to do away with the barrier between artist and listener is more striking than ever before. The gentle flutters whisper in your ear like secrets shared between you and her. The intimacy is so that every pick, every chord change carries with it an unmilled ripple and a chirp.

Recorded with Luke Temple of Here We Go Magic, the 10 songs were written in snatched moments on the relentless Big Thief tour. Lenker sounds raw, her lyrics organic. They escape her lungs with little scrutiny but plenty of emotion.

The album is understated and unassuming. It could have been discovered in a dusty cabin, penned by a long-lost folk-hero from the 60s. Adrianne serenades us with her songbook of gently reflective golden lullabies wistfully. It's delicate, enchanting and irresistible. A gorgeous and affecting listen especially if you have a tendency for likes of <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/jessica-pratt">Jessica Pratt</a>, <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/kath-bloom">Kath Bloom</a>, and <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/joan-baez">Joan Baez</a>.

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This is the debut solo album from Adrianne Lenker, lead vocalist of Big Thief. It’s culled from songs written in snatched moments on the relentless Big Thief tour schedule. Recorded in a studio with Luke Temple of Here We Go Magic it’s 10 songs of dreamy wonder.

Plucked, caressed and stroked silvery guitar strings flutter and quiver under flurrying fingers. Reflective, crooning vocals fall like a lullaby from a gentle folky lilting swaying singer. Simple and unadorned cascading arpeggios of sweet guitar notes and rippling piano. The occasional bluesy flutters and murmuring melodies support a wistful fragility.

Adrianne Lenker has been writing songs since she was 10 years old. Her "back story" has been well documented in various interviews and profiles for Big Thief over the last 3 years. Despite, or more likely because of the constant touring and studio work, the last few years have been some of the most prolific for Lenker as a writer. Songs pop out at soundcheck. They pop out on late night drives between cities. They pop out in green rooms, hotel stairwells, gardens, and kitchens around the world. In the hands of Lenker songwriting is not an old dead craft. It is alive. It is vital. With little regard for standard album cycle practice or the idea of resting at all, Lenker set out to make a document. Songs can be slippery and following a 2+ years on the road with Big Thief, Lenker felt a growing need to document this particular time in her life in an intimate, immediate way. 

The result is her new album, Abysskiss. "I want to archive the songs in their original forms every few years," explains Lenker. "My first solo record I made was Hours Were the Birds. I had just turned 21 and moved to New York City where I was sleeping in a warehouse, working in a restaurant and photographing pigeons. Now five years later, another skin is being shed." Following a two week road trip through the southwestern United States, Lenker headed into the studio with longtime friend Luke Temple. Temple put on his loosely fitting, bright orange, 100% wool producer hat and for one week they made music. The songs chosen for this collection were the songs that felt the most alive in the room. These are not castaways or B-sides. Some of these songs have been alive for years while some were written just days before the session. Some will appear in different future forms, some will not. The thread that connects these songs is not something that can easily be put down in words. Intuition connects these songs. They are a record of a time. With this collection, Lenker further illuminates to the listening public what those close to her already know; here we have a songwriter of the highest order, following her voice and the greater Voices that pass through her with an unflinching openness and clarity of translation.

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