A-Sides and Besides
Bare-bones acoustic sketches that feel like reading a private diary. Lenker’s voice and guitar are the only anchors in these fragile, unvarnished recordings.
November 16, 2018 · Saddle Creek
Bare-bones acoustic sketches that feel like reading a private diary. Lenker’s voice and guitar are the only anchors in these fragile, unvarnished recordings.
November 16, 2018 · Saddle Creek
This is the sound of Adrianne Lenker at her most skeletal and vulnerable. Released as a companion to her more polished work, A-Sides and Besides functions as a collection of ghosts: songs that feel less like tracks and more like captured moments of private reflection. The production is so intimate that you can hear the physical mechanics of the performance: the scrape of fingers on steel strings, the intake of breath before a difficult line, and the ambient silence of the room itself. It is a quiet, heavy listen that demands a specific kind of stillness from the listener.
How does A-Sides and Besides sound next to the rest of Adrianne Lenker's catalogue?
The production is built around minimalist than this artist usually allows.
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