Adrianne Lenker has shared “Free Treasure” from her upcoming album, Bright Future, out Friday, March 22nd. Delicate and intimate, the stunning new song is made sturdy by dual vocals and guitars paired shoulder-to-shoulder. With Mat Davidson on vocal and guitar harmonies, ‘Free Treasure’ takes us home, where we find the best cooking, a warm fire, understanding, and “love without measure.” It is a road-worn traveller’s paradise, full of adventure and whimsy, free to whomever lays it all down. “Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more, I feel a little more.”

Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Davidson, Nick Hakim, and Josefin Runsteen. During the high vibrance of autumn 2022, the Big Thief band member got lucky. Everyone could come. Three musical friends, “Some of my favourite people,” had space in their busy touring schedules to join her at the forest-hidden, analogue studio, Double Infinity. The musicians – Hakim, Davidson, and Runsteen – were known to Adrianne but newer to each other. “I had no idea what the outcome would be,” she recalls. The result? “It was magical,” she says. Adrianne’s musical risk became Bright Future, the studio’s first album, a 12-track telling of a journeyed heart.

Bright Future’s co-producer and engineer, Philip Weinrobe, prepared the studio. He has been Adrianne’s partner on previous solo albums, but this was something new. Adrianne did not intend to make an album. They would instead explore the songs with no expectations. Even with an open outcome, from the start, Phil wanted to capture the sessions with the purest, technical honesty. The result has the best qualities of thoughtful engineering with the spontaneous swim of a field recording. There are details to savour, fingertips on strings, felt pads nodding in the piano, the harmonies a few steps back, all smoothly laid to tape. It comes together to allow Adrianne’s songs to be as they are, unarmoured and light-footed.

Adrianne will be bringing “Free Treasure” to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night.

ADRIANNE LENKER TOUR DATES

18 March – BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Music Hall of Williamsburg $ (SOLD OUT)
21 March – KNOXVILLE, TN, USA, Big Ears Festival
19 April – GALWAY, IRELAND, The Black Box * (SOLD OUT)
20 April – KILKENNY, IRELAND, St. Canice’s Cathedral * (SOLD OUT)
21 April – DUBLIN, IRELAND, Vicar Street * (SOLD OUT)
24 April – GLASGOW, UK, Old Fruitmarket + (SOLD OUT)
25 April – MANCHESTER, UK, The Hall at Aviva Studios + (SOLD OUT)
27 April – LONDON, UK, Barbican Centre = (SOLD OUT)
28 April – LONDON, UK, Barbican Centre (Matinee show) = (SOLD OUT)
28 April – LONDON, UK, Barbican Centre = (SOLD OUT)
29 April – BRISTOL, UK, Bristol Beacon + (SOLD OUT)
2 May – PARIS, FRANCE, Le Trianon + (SOLD OUT)
3 May – BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Cirque Royale +
5 May – AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, The Concertgebouw = (SOLD OUT)
6 May – BERLIN, GERMANY, Admiralspalast =
7 May – HAMBURG, GERMANY, Kampnagel =
10 May – COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, The Royal Danish Academy of Music = (SOLD OUT)
11 May – STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, Berns = (SOLD OUT)
12 May – OSLO, NORWAY, Chateau Neuf = (SOLD OUT)
9 June – AUSTIN, TX, USA, The Paramount Theatre %
10 June – AUSTIN, TX, USA, The Paramount Theatre %
12 June – ALBUQUERQUE, NM, USA, KiMO Theatre % (SOLD OUT)
13 June – TUCSON, AZ, USA, Rialto Theatre %
15 June – LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, The Theatre at Ace Hotel = (SOLD OUT)
16 June – LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, The Theatre at Ace Hotel + (SOLD OUT)
17 June – OAKLAND, CA, USA, Fox Theatre = (SOLD OUT)
20 June – PORTLAND, OR, USA, Revolution Hall = (SOLD OUT)
21 June – PORTLAND, OR, USA, Revolution Hall + (SOLD OUT)
22 June – SEATTLE, WA, USA, Paramount Theatre + (SOLD OUT)
24 June – BOISE, ID, USA, Treefort Music Hall =
25 June – SALT LAKE CITY, UT, USA, The Depot = (SOLD OUT)
26 June – DENVER, CO, USA, The Mission Ballroom =
28 June – CHICAGO, IL, USA, Chicago Theatre = (SOLD OUT)
29 June – MINNEAPOLIS, MN, USA, State Theatre = (SOLD OUT)
26 July – NEWPORT, RI, USA, Newport Folk Festival
11 November – NORTHAMPTON, MA, USA, Academy of Music Theatre ^ (SOLD OUT)
12 November – BOSTON, MA, USA, Boch Center Shubert Theatre ^ (SOLD OUT)
13 November – BOSTON, MA, USA, Boch Center Shubert Theatre ^
15 November – MONTREAL, QC, CANADA, L’Olympia ^
16 November – TORONTO, ON, CANADA, Queen Elizabeth Theatre ^ (SOLD OUT)
18 November – BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Kings Theatre ^
19 November – BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Kings Theatre ^
21 November – ATLANTA, GA, USA, The Eastern ^
22 November – DURHAM, NC, USA, TBA ^
23 November – WASHINGTON, DC, USA, The Anthem ^
25 November – PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA, Union Transfer ^
26 November – PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA, Union Transfer ^

£ w/ El Kempner
* w/ Ellie O’Neill
+ w/ Nick Hakim
= w/ Twain
% w/ Steve Fisher
^ w/ Suzanne Vallie

Pre-order Bright Future HERE.