by Oliver on April 11, 2024 in EP
Sadness as a gift: Big Thief-Front woman Adrianne Lenker releases the exquisite studio album Bright Future the Bandcamp exclusive charity EP I Won’t Let Go of Your Hand.
„This is a new collection of songs i cherish, which were recorded in the moments they were written. 100% of the proceeds will go towards the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. www.pcrf.net“Lenker explains the background to the EP, which was released purely digitally and is not exactly available cheaply.
But apart from it (probably also a final change in the original perspective of Big Thief (marking) intention, the quality of the music alone justifies the asking price for the 6 songs of 21 minutes I Won’t Let Go of Your Hand.
Handlebar, largely reduced to her voice and a gently played acoustic guitar (which wonderfully caresses the toilet in the throat Relief through a Grouper-esquely dripping out of time, as if replacing a mournful piano in a troubled fog), conjures up a spontaneously captured collection of their singer-songwriter/indie folk art in a lo-fi sound, which casually warms the heavy heart.
The gentle melancholy of the pieces is bittersweet in the ear, warm and poetic, fragile and introspective, as fragile and intimate as the relative uniformity spreads out a familiar melody, atmospherically dense and also a coherent arc of tension in the not-so-sketchy, but only to a limited extent perfectly crafted. In this respect, Lenker has already written more overwhelming songs – as a moving gem (close to Songs) is I Won’t Let Go of Your Hand but a disarmingly well-rounded thing.
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