lenker’s fingertips rubbing against coiled steel. occasionally, her chair creaks or her foot brushes against the floor. some songs wear a halo of birdsong or rainfall. fragments from the sessions—orphaned chords strummed in the silence before a take begins, the thunk of what might be fingers...
When Adrianne Lenker was 5, a railroad spike fell from the beginnings of a makeshift treehouse in her family’s Niswah, Minnesota yard, landing on her head and almost killing her. This moment moves into focus on “Mythological Beauty,” the lead single from her folk-rock band Big Thief’...