Today, Adrianne Lenker shares a new single ‘Free Treasure’ from her upcoming album, Bright Future, out this Friday 22 March. Delicate and intimate, the stunning new song is made sturdy by dual vocals and guitars paired shoulder-to-shoulder. With Mat Davidson on vocal and guitar harmonies, ‘Free Treasure’ takes us home, where we find the best cooking, a warm fire, understanding, and “love without measure.” It is a road-worn traveller’s paradise, full of adventure and whimsy, free to whomever lays it all down. “Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more, I feel a little more.”
+ Stream ‘Free Treasure’ on all platforms here +
Additionally, Adrianne will be bringing ‘Free Treasure’ to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night.
+ Pre-order Bright Future on recycled LP, black LP, CD and cassette via the 4AD store +
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Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Davidson, Nick Hakim, and Josefin Runsteen. 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.
Bright Future’s co-producer and engineer, Philip Weinrobe, prepared the studio. He has been Adrianne’s partner on previous solo albums, but this was something new. Adrianne did not intend to make an album. They would instead explore the songs with no expectations. Even with an open outcome, from the start, Phil wanted to capture the sessions with the purest, technical honesty. The result has the best qualities of thoughtful engineering with the spontaneous swim of a field recording. There are details to savour, fingertips on strings, felt pads nodding in the piano, the harmonies a few steps back, all smoothly laid to tape. It comes together to allow Adrianne’s songs to be as they are, unarmoured and light-footed.
Adrianne will play a sold-out tour throughout the UK and Europe this Spring followed by a Summer tour of North America. A full schedule can be found below. For tickets and more information, head HERE.
March
21st – Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN, USA
April
19th – The Black Box, Galway, Ireland* (SOLD OUT)
20th – St. Canice’s Catherdral, Kilkenny, Ireland* (SOLD OUT)
21st – Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland* (SOLD OUT)
24th – Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, UK+ (SOLD OUT)
25th – The Hall at Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK + (SOLD OUT)
27th – Barbican Centre, London, UK= (SOLD OUT)
29th – Bristol Beacon, Bristol, UK+ (SOLD OUT)
May
2nd – Le Trianon, Paris, France+
3rd – Cirque Royale, Belgium, Brussels+
5th – The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands= (SOLD OUT)
6th – Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany =
7th – Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany =
10th – The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark= (SOLD OUT)
11th – Berns, Stockholm, Sweden=
12th – Chateau Neuf, Olso, Norway=
June
9th – The Paramount Theatre, Austin TX, US %
10th – The Paramount Theatre, Austin TX, US %
12th – KiMO Theatre, Albuquerque NM, US % (SOLD OUT)
13th – Rialto Theatre, Tucson AZ, US %
15th – The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles CA, US= (SOLD OUT)
16th – The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles CA, US + (SOLD OUT)
17th – Fox Theatre, Oakland CA, US =
20th – Revolution Hall, Portland OR, US = (SOLD OUT)
21st – Revolution Hall, Portland OR, US + (SOLD OUT)
22nd – Paramount Theatre, Seattle WA, US + (SOLD OUT)
24th – Treefort Music Hall, Boise ID, US
25th – The Depot, Salt Lake City UT, US = (SOLD OUT)
26th – The Mission Ballroom, Denver CO, US =
28th – Chicago Theatre, Chicago IL, US = (SOLD OUT)
29th – State Theatre, Minneapolis MN, US= (SOLD OUT)
November
11th – Academy of Music Theatre, Northampton MA, US^ (SOLD OUT)
12th – Boch Centre Shubert Theatre, Boston MA, US
13th – Boch Centre Shubert Theatre, Boston MA, US
15th – L’Olympia, Montreal QC, Canada^
16th – Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto ON, Canada^ (SOLD OUT)
19th – Kings Theatre, Brooklyn NY, US^
21st – The Eastern, Atlanta GA, US^
22nd – Venue TBC, Durham NC, US^
23rd – The Anthem, Washington DC, US^
25th – Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA, US^
26th – Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA, US^
* w/ Ellie O’Neill
+ w/ Nick Hakim
= w/ Twain
% w/ Steve Fisher
^ w/ Suzanne Vallie