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Adrianne Lenker

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Maybe I don't even fully understand once I've written it, but it just feels right.

Adrianne Elizabeth Lenker (born May 9, 1991) is an American musician. She is the lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter of the band Big Thief, as well as an established solo artist.

Quotes

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  • I think I’m learning how to release every day. Recognizing that everything you encounter, touch, or love can become part of you, and in essence never disappears, as long as you can recall it to memory or heart. It’s all so connected that we lose everything, but also, we never lose anything.
  • It doesn't feel like it's just originating from my brain. It feels like I'm following an invisible thread of intuition, from one choice to the next... maybe I don't even fully understand once I've written it, but it just feels right. And I just trust that. And then over time, it reveals its layers of meaning to me. That's a mark of what I feel is a good song. It keeps me wanting to play it.

Song lyrics

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  • Real love makes your lungs black
    Real love is a heart attack
  • This place smells like piss and beer.
  • I drove in circles 'round the freight train yard
    and he turned the headlights off
    Then he pulled the bottle out
    then he showed me what was love
  • There's only so much letting go you can ask someone to do.

Quotes about Lenker

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  • Lenker isn’t the room-swallowing presence that [Frances] Quinlan is, but she more than makes up for it in commanding songcraft, which skews dynamic, dissonant, and placid without ever changing its sepia tone.
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