![]() ![]() On one hand there are the 1970s vibes of Red Moon in the tradition of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, on the other hand there is the To the glitchy electronic soundscape of Blurred View. To the pensive folk balladry of Change and The Only Place,įrom the country-jug shuffle Spud Infinity (somewhere between Norman Greenbaum and the Velvet Underground) Whispered funk-rock dance Simulation Swarm To the Elliott Smith-esque depression of Promise Is a Pendulum, from the The polyrhythmic ditty Though Time Escaping The sprawling, 20-song double-album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD, 2022) is a wildly diverse collection, ranging from Mostly Chimes (16:12) is a confused piece where repetitive patterns meet chirping birds and chiming bells. Her slow, clumsy, lo-fi playing can neither engage with superhuman finger-picking nor lull with dreamy passages, although occasionally she attempts a psychedelic detour or a more traditional honky-tonking pace. ![]() Virtuoso and Music for Indigo (21:12) quickly gets tedious because Instrumentals (4AD, 2020) contains two lengthy instrumentals in the The pleasantly breezy Half Return (with the most intoxicating guitar picking), Songs (4AD, 2020) is most elaborate solo album yet, but it doesn't take much given how humble and spare the previous ones were. Lenker released two solo albums during the covid-19 pandemic. The musical values are low to non-existent. The lyrical values of the album really depend on how much poetry one reads. Nobody doubts the sincerity of the project, but The echoes of the Byrds and Bob Dylan in Replaced hardly prepare for the whispered swoon of The energy and pathos in Shoulders are the exact opposite of the The engaging rhythm and shrill Kate Bush-esque vocals of Two HandsĬontrast with the melodic nocturnal folk-jazz of Those Girls, The collection certainly has more variety than ever: The slightly more rocking Two Hands (2019) is instead a painful listen.Īnd/or poorly performed (they sound like a third-rate Fleetwood Mac cover band in Forgotten Eyes and Not, and it's not a compliment that these Poets out there who write much better poetry on the same topics. While they areĬertainly above the average of rock music, there are plenty of great Unfortunately, most of the focus here is on the lyrics. The album also contains new versions of Terminal Paradise and Harsher guitar riffs of Jenni (possibly the peak of pathos) are ![]() The fragile psychedelic overtones of Strange and the The lullaby Orange, basically a solo Lenker song, is They are a little too anemic in songs such as Open Desert but then Neurotic Neil Young-ian coda of distorted guitar and screams.īritish folk-rock of the 1960s (such as Fairport Convention) via intimate US roots-rockers like the Volebeats.Ĭattails is a shy country-rocker with Irish overtones. To focus on Adrianne Lenker's stream of consciousness and flirtation with loneliness (the final "F" in "UFOF" stands for "friend").įloating vocals, barely acknowledged by lazy instrumentation, despite a That solo album marked a change also in the sound ofīig Thief, whose third album, the sedated, stripped-down Lenker's humble, acoustic solo album Abysskiss (2018) contains the original versions of Terminal Paradise and From, Lenker and Meek divorced in 2018, and Meek moved to California. Mythological Beauty sound too familiar, as if they were covers The price to pay is that the likes of Capacity and The songs here try to be more melodic and to sound more intimate. Standout of Capacity (Saddle Creek, 2017). The screeching guitar cacophony and the gentle country singing,Īre well combined in Shark Smile, the Bruce Springsteen-esque Hours Were the Birds (Saddle Creek 2014), containing Then the Rain Came (2008) when she was still a teenager,Īnd had debuted solo in earnest with the modest This should have been an EP.Īdrianne Lenker had already recorded solo albums titled She's no torch shouter, though, as proven by Real Love.Īlas, too many songs are fillers. The singer's gentle mode is instead enough to propel the Masterpiece seems to mock the martial anthems of Neil Young, but with a much more creative guitar break by Buck Meek.Īnother showcase of Meek's guitar playing is Randy, only apparentlyĪ plain and linear ditty, and in reality inhabited by ghostly (guitar) voices. Resurrected Juliana Hatfield's confessional pop on ( Copyright © 2018 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of Use)ĭragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (2022), 6/10įronted by vocalist Adrianne Lenker (an alumna of theīerklee College of Music) and guitarist (and husband) Buck Meek, Big Thief: biography, discography, review, ratings, best albums ![]()
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