Adrianne Lenker

And yeah, and it was really good and, you know, and, and just, um, you know, one of the...

I was on the sixth floor at Berklee, and right next to me was this girl named Adrianne Lenker.

Um, and she, you know, was, and we were on the same floor, and we kinda would, would pass each other in the, in the ri- in the practice rooms.

And we started hanging out and playing some music, and she played me some of her songs, and it was like these, these amazing songs.

I mean, I just admire the hell out of him, but he is not-- He's fearless, and you know, I've watched it-- I mean, he famously did a Big Thief recording entirely with contact mics.

And when I asked, "What'd you do about the vocal?" And duct taped a contact mic to Adrianne Lenker's throat, you know? So this is like, this is a level of out there that's, that's like, whoa, you know? But my, but my takeaway, because, you know, you come out of that so inspired, like, I'm, I'm gonna go and do crazy things like Sean, you know? And what you quickly learn is that it kind of only works if you're him, because, you know, it's kinda like a-any moron could splatter paint on a canvas.

You know? It, it doesn't make you, [laughs] you know, this like brilliant painter.

So, so then you, you know, and then you-- And with Tom, and Tom's like the, the exact opposite.

So I, I, I, I highly recommend that.

Um, and uh, I can't, I can't get enough of Adrianne Lenker's songwriting.

I'm sure-

Mm

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, but yeah, I'm definitely in the, strongly in the Adrianne Lenker, um, is a badass camp for sure.

Yeah, yeah.

And then finally, what would you cue to get prepped for a session at Long Pond?

I'd probably be driving home from, like, running on a trail, and I would listen to, like, Adrianne Lenker's solo music.

Mm.

Or I would listen to, there's this amazing French artist, Pomme, who's, makes, like, sh- like, sort of traditional-sounding chanson but, like, in interesting ways.

Like, it's the, it, and the excellence is just sort of pouring out of them, and I definitely felt that watching TV on the Radio tour Dear Science and watching Big Thief.

She just, Adrianne Lenker just seemed to...

It seemed like she'd found some kind of pathway through songwriting that meant that she was, she couldn't stop herself.

'Cause it also, the, the, it, her solo double album kind of comes out not long, I think maybe the year before that.

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the singer-songwriter.

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