I didn’t have anything with me to record it or write it down,” Lenker says. “I got my guitar and walked up to the top of hill and wrote the song and just sang it. It’s like a volcano that had built up so much pressure that it erupted.įor example, on the album’s title track she sings, “Old stars / Filling up my throat / You gave ‘em to me when I was born / Now they’re coming out.” She says she was at songwriting festival, and that “there was a lot of stuff happening with friends and family and teachers.” Lenker feels that much of the lyrical content on Big Thief’s debut album Masterpiece-which came out in late May on Saddle Creek Records-spilled out from her subconscious. For Adrianne Lenker of Brooklyn-based band Big Thief, that statement would likely ring true more times than not.
Sometimes the most revealing lyrics for a song can come from deep within one’s subconscious. It’s a special world they’ve created and it lives in my head on repeat. Masterpiece shakes off the trite relationship cliches that are trappings of so much rock music. Meet me out back, I’ll be there waiting.” It’s an album on being human, finding compassion, being a lover or just a friend. Masterpiece is one of the strongest debut albums of 2016. I’ll be a killer and a thriller and the cause of our death” I’ll be your real tough cookie with the whiskey breath. I’ll be your record player baby if you know what I mean. “I’ll be your morning bright goodnight shadow machine. They’re storytellers as much as song makers and their distorted guitar-based music is a powerful underpinning to vivid and stark imagery: Its songs revolve around singer and guitarist Adrianne Lenker and her musical partner, guitarist Buck Meek. Keep an eye out for him as he is sure to be another big name in the Afrobeat world.Big Thief is muscular and frail. His Marlian Records label has been producing and developing many rising Afropop stars, including Zinoleesky, a singer, songwriter and performer who performs on his own and is featured here on the last two songs of this set.
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