Adrianne Lenker Steps Into the Abyss
"I get scared of songs disappearing. It's good to record them because I don't have to carry them around anymore," Lenker says.
As leader of the indie-rock band Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker has developed a reputation for songwriting that channels big, unwieldy emotions—trauma, grief, desire—into intimate storytelling.
With a haunting new solo album, titled , Lenker is narrowing the arrangements but not the ambition. "[The album] is about very basic things—observing life,” Lenker says, casually. “And birth. And decay. And heartache.
