Adrianne Lenker has announced her new solo album, Bright Future, out March 22nd on 4AD, shares the new single “Sadness As A Gift,” and announces 2024 North American tour dates. Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen. Following the previously released single “Ruined,” “Sadness As A Gift” sees Lenker at her most familiar and warm, a track that is both utterly timeless, yet sounding new and surprising on every listen. The aliveness of Adrianne’s voice keeps her poetry aloft. She sings in a circle completed by guitar, piano, violin, and all voices. “The seasons go so fast // Thinking that this one was going to last // Maybe the question was too much to ask.” Check out “Sadness As a Gift” below…
On Bright Future, Adrianne Lenker, a songwriter known for turns of phrase and currents of rhyme, says it plainly, “You have my heart // I want it back.” Documented with analog precision, what began as an experiment in collaboration, became proof Adrianne’s heart did return, full to the brim, daring her into the unknown.
During the high vibrance of autumn, 2022, the Big Thief band member got lucky. Everyone could come. Three musical friends, “Some of my favorite people,” had space in their busy touring schedules to join her at the forest-hidden, analog 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.
Adrianne’s North American tour, announced today, will go on sale this Friday at 10am EST, with artist and Spotify presales happening Thursday at 10am EST. Purchase tickets here.
BRIGHT FUTURE TRACKLIST
1. Real House
2. Sadness As A Gift
3. Fool
4. No Machine
5. Free Treasure
6. Vampire Empire
7. Evol
8. Candleflame
9. Already Lost
10. Cell Phone Says
11. Donut Seam
12. Ruined
ADRIANNE LENKER TOUR DATES:
(New Dates In BOLD)
Thu. Mar. 21 – Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears
Fri. April 19 – Galway, IE @ The Black Box * SOLD OUT
Sat. April 20 – Kilkenny, IE @ St. Canice’s Cathedral * SOLD OUT
Sun. April 21 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street * SOLD OUT
Wed. April 24 – Glasgow, UK @ Old Fruitmarket + SOLD OUT
Thu. April 25 – Manchester, UK @ The Hall at Aviva Studios + SOLD OUT
Sat. April 27 – London, UK @ Barbican Centre = SOLD OUT
Sun. April 28 – London, UK @ Barbican Centre = SOLD OUT
Mon. April 29 – Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon + SOLD OUT
Thu. May 2 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon +
Fri. May 3 – Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royale +
Sun. May 5 – Amsterdam, NL @ The Concertgebouw = SOLD OUT
Mon. May 6 – Berlin, DE @ Admiralspalast =
Tue. May 7 – Hamburg, DE @ Kampnagel =
Fri. May 10 – Copenhagen, DK @ The Royal Danish Academy of Music = SOLD OUT
Sat. May 11 – Stockholm, SE @ Berns =
Sun. May 12 – Oslo, NO @ Chateau Neuf =
Sun. Jun. 9 – Austin, TX @ The Paramount Theatre %
Mon. Jun. 10 – Austin, TX @ The Paramount Theatre %
Wed. Jun. 12 – Albuquerque, NM @ KiMO Theatre %
Thu. Jun. 13 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre %
Sat. Jun. 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel =
Sun. Jun. 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel +
Mon. Jun. 17 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater =
Thu. Jun. 20 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall =
Fri. Jun. 21 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall +
Sat. Jun. 22 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre +
Tue. Jun. 25 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot =
Wed. Jun. 26 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom =
Fri. Jun. 28 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre =
Sat. Jun. 29 – Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre =
Mon. Nov. 11 – Northampton, MA @ Academy Of Music Theatre ^
Tue. Nov. 12 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Shubert Theatre ^
Wed. Nov. 13 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Shubert Theatre ^
Fri. Nov. 15 – Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia ^
Sat. Nov. 16 – Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre ^
Tue. Nov. 19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre ^
Thu. Nov. 21 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern ^
Fri. Nov. 22 – Durham, NC @ TBA ^
Sat. Nov. 23 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem ^
Mon. Nov. 25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^
Tue. Nov. 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^
* w/ Ellie O’Neill
+ w/ Nick Hakim
= w/ Twain
% w/ Steve Fisher
^ w/ Suzanne Vallie
