Adrianne Lenker - Bright FuturePre Order. Released 15th March, via 4AD Adrianne Lenker announces her new solo album, Bright Future, her first album since 2020s songs and instrumentals, featuring co production from Philip Weinrobe alongside contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson and Josefin Runsteen. Following previous single, Ruined, Sadness As A Gift sees Lenker at her most familiar and warm a track that is both utterly timeless, yet new and surprising on every listen. The

you hear the dust on the cello bow

especially in recent years

In the ensuing months

And it was a time when a lot of bands who had become reluctantly successful decided to split

with direct-input guitar signal whining and buzzing purposefully from left to right

The first piece Cheri made at Evergreen manifested when a multi-tracked mic test spontaneously evolved into a vocal ostinato

settling with his family in California

made with the help of contributors and influences as diverse as MC Killa Kela and 17th Century composer

with passages flowering from one musical concept to the next

bewitching 'L'Amour'

as with all Iceage’s previous albums

Decades later