心の旅を綴った12曲...
現行のロック/フォーク・シーン最重要バンド ビッグ・シーフのエイドリアン・レンカーがソロ最新アルバムを名門〈4AD〉よりリリース!!

USインディーの至宝ビッグ・シーフのエイドリアン・レンカーが、新作ソロ・アルバム『Bright Future』を〈4AD〉からリリース。2020年の『Songs & Instrumentals』以来となるソロ・アルバムであり、フィリップ・ワインローブが共同プロデュースを担当、さらにニック・ハキム、マット・デビッドソン、ジョセフィン・ランスティーンといったメンツが参加している。
アナログ機材で緻密に録音された本作は、親密で非常に温かいサウンドを披露しており、完全に時代を超越した楽曲群でありながら、聴くたびに新鮮な驚きを与えてくれる内容となった。エイドリアン・レンカーの生き生きとした歌声が、彼女の詩を浮遊させる。
2022年秋に各メンツの多忙なツアースケジュールの合間を縫って、森に潜むアナログ・スタジオDouble Infinityに集まり録音され、ギター、ピアノ、ヴァイオリン、そしてみんなの声で構成された、エイドリアンの心の旅を綴った12曲入りの作品となった。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2024/01/18）

Arriving two years after her band Big Thiefs Top 40 breakthrough, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, Bright Future finds a solo Adrianne Lenker delving into a wide range of topics -- love, climate change, gratitude, overwhelm -- with her trademark intimate spin. While her previous solo outing, songs and instrumentals, was recorded alone with engineer Phil Weinrobe (who returns to co-produce here), Lenker decided to expand her palette for Bright Future while limiting it to mainly acoustic guitar, piano, and violin. To that end, she gathered with friends Nick Hakim (piano, voice), Josefin Runsteen (violin, voice), and Dragon alum Mat Davidson (guitars, piano, violin, voice) at Double Infinity, a remote analog studio in the New England woods. There, they recorded songs ranging from spare tracks to the semi-lively singalong "Sadness as a Gift," quirky electric-guitar song "Fool," howling acoustic jam "Vampire Empire" (a song previously recorded by Big Thief), and campfire climate-catastrophe ditty "Donut Stream," which warmly reasons, "This whole world is dyin/Dont it seem like a good time for swimmin/Before all the water disappears?" To set the stage, though, Lenker opens the album with "Real House," a hushed tearjerker of a walk down memory lane that remembers things like wanting to be an inventor, the first time she saw her mother cry, and contemplating "dying unprepared" after watching a scary film when she was seven. A showstopper at track one, its essentially an a cappella performance, with a fragile-voiced, lilting Lenker backed only by minimal piano chords and rare flecks of violin. The album is bookended by "Real House" and "Ruined," which leaves listeners on a similarly touching note. Nearly as whisper-quiet as the opener, its a solo performance consisting of voice ("Cant get enough of you/You come around Im ruined"), piano, and touches of mystical crystal. An arguable highlight among highlights along the way is the tender "Evol," one of Lenkers "list songs" that, in this instance, plays with reversed words (teach, cheat; part, trap; kiss, sick; etc.). Having said that, Bright Future is the type of no-filter album with enough variety and poignancy that each song is bound to be somebodys favorite. ~ Marcy Donelson

Rovi